Ranger Posted August 21, 2009 Report Share Posted August 21, 2009 WASHINGTON – A new poll says that Americans, concerned over the future of health care reform and anxious about the growing federal budget deficit, are losing faith in President Barack Obama. The Washington Post-ABC News survey found that less that half of Americans — 49 percent — say they believe the president will make the right decisions for the country. That's down from 60 percent at the 100-day mark of the Obama presidency. The poll published Friday says Obama's overall approval is 57 percent, 12 points lower than it was at its peak in April. Fifty-three percent disapprove of the way he's handling the budget deficit and his approval on health care continues to deteriorate. The national survey was conducted Aug. 13-17 and has a sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points Just imagine what one year into his presidency will bring. And dare we contemplate reelection time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimD Posted August 21, 2009 Report Share Posted August 21, 2009 Folks who voted for Obama are finally figuring out that Illinois politics-as-usual is best kept in Illinois. Folks who did not vote for Obama had a little more foresight and voted the issues rather than the "popularity contest" aspect of the election. We will not have to wait for the next presidential election. You can bet the DNC is scrambling to protect the congressional majority in the 2010 election cycle. And Kennedy is leaning on the MA governor and legislature to change MA law regarding appointing/electing a successor to his senate seat should he become unable to serve. All to protect the congressional majority. Clinton was handed this lesson. Our system really does work quite well. Slow, but well. Jim Drive your car. Use your cell phone. CHOOSE ONE ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAC Posted August 22, 2009 Report Share Posted August 22, 2009 Just wait until all the accumulated debt from the bailouts and out-of-control spending finally sinks in. Forget about a tax cut, which would have spurred consumer spending. Obama is an out-of-control socialist with an agenda that will bankrupt all of us unless the American people, Republicans and conservative Democrats alike, stand up and say enough is enough. Obama wants to redistribute wealth and abandon core free market principles. How the heck can the feds manage a national single-payer health care system when everything the liars in Congress touch goes bankrupt i.e., Medicare, Social Security, the U.S. Post Office? The fraud and waste in Medicare alone is proof enough that allowing the feds to run a national health care system is a disaster waiting to happen. It will not work because government is inept and corrupt! All that has to be done (as has been suggested), is to allow medical expenses to be tax deductible, allow people to buy health insurance across state lines, and tort reform, to name a few. As British Historian Lord Acton said, "Power Corrupts and Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely" The more power we Americans allow the bureaucrats to take, the more corrupt the system will become. The founding fathers must be turning in their graves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarrenJ Posted August 22, 2009 Report Share Posted August 22, 2009 And Kennedy is leaning on the MA governor and legislature to change MA law regarding appointing/electing a successor to his senate seat should he become unable to serve. All to protect the congressional majority. It's worth noting Sen. Kennedy originally proposed this legislation in order to prevent Sen. John Kerry's seat from being endangered during a presidential campaign. One might conclude his turn-around results from hypocrisy. Another might conclude it's simple political expediency. I'd simply call it arrogance. There's a lot of that arrogant bovine excrement making the rounds these days! Regards, Warren There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved. - Ludwig von Mises Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarrenJ Posted August 22, 2009 Report Share Posted August 22, 2009 The more power we Americans allow the bureaucrats to take, the more corrupt the system will become. Aye laddie; that's the rub, isn't it? Regards, Warren P.S. Miriam-Webster Dictionary: "Aye" = also "ay," adverb, "ALWAYS," or "EVER." There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved. - Ludwig von Mises Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimD Posted August 26, 2009 Report Share Posted August 26, 2009 And Kennedy is leaning on the MA governor and legislature to change MA law regarding appointing/electing a successor to his senate seat should he become unable to serve. All to protect the congressional majority. It's worth noting Sen. Kennedy originally proposed this legislation in order to prevent Sen. John Kerry's seat from being endangered during a presidential campaign. One might conclude his turn-around results from hypocrisy. Another might conclude it's simple political expediency. I'd simply call it arrogance. There's a lot of that arrogant bovine excrement making the rounds these days! Regards, Warren RIP, Teddy. Jim Drive your car. Use your cell phone. CHOOSE ONE ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarrenJ Posted August 26, 2009 Report Share Posted August 26, 2009 And Kennedy is leaning on the MA governor and legislature to change MA law regarding appointing/electing a successor to his senate seat should he become unable to serve. All to protect the congressional majority. It's worth noting Sen. Kennedy originally proposed this legislation in order to prevent Sen. John Kerry's seat from being endangered during a presidential campaign. One might conclude his turn-around results from hypocrisy. Another might conclude it's simple political expediency. I'd simply call it arrogance. There's a lot of that arrogant bovine excrement making the rounds these days! Regards, Warren RIP, Teddy. YEP, didn't wish him well, but neither did I wish him gone (except in a political sense). R.I.P. Regards, Warren There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved. - Ludwig von Mises Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackc Posted August 26, 2009 Report Share Posted August 26, 2009 Ted Kennedy left this life late last night. He was imperfect, like many of us, but he devoted his life in service to our country. Thank you Ted for your service. May you find peace in the afterlife. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BodybyFisher Posted August 27, 2009 Report Share Posted August 27, 2009 BLINDED BY A LIFE OF PRIVILEGE By HOWIE CARR August 27, 2009 -- WHILE offering condolences to the Kennedy family at this sad moment, it's important to note that Ted Kennedy's life was not as simple or heroic as is now being portrayed. On the cable channels yesterday, his fellow Senate graybeards were lamenting the passing of what was invariably described as Kennedy's "collegial" Senate, where voices were seldom raised and partisan bickering ended when the gavel came down to end the session. All of which would have come as a surprise to Robert Bork, the Supreme Court nominee of whom the collegial Ted said in 1986: "Robert Bork's America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters . . ." So much for collegiality. Of course, Kennedy is now endlessly lauded for his support of "women's rights," i.e., abortion. But into the 1970s, before the Roman Catholic Church's influence began to wane, he was a traditional, pro-life New England Democrat. Here was his take on abortion in 1971: "Wanted or unwanted, I believe that human life, even at its earliest stages, has certain rights which must be recognized -- the right to be born, the right to love, the right to grow old." There's a story, perhaps apocryphal, that in his first Senate campaign in 1962, Kennedy was shaking hands at a factory gate during a shift change. A haggard worker began berating him about how he'd never worked a day in his life. As the legend had it, at that point another salt-of-the-earth blue-collar type leaned in and told Kennedy, "Never worked a day in your life, kid? You ain't missed a thing." But in fact he had. Yesterday, the tributes kept mentioning his commitment to the "working class." He fought for, as President Obama said (on Martha's Vineyard, of all places), "an America that is more equal and more just." But more equal and more just for some people than for others. When it came to the white-ethnic working class from which his father came, Kennedy just plain didn't get it. Whether it was court-ordered busing in Boston in the '70s, or the affirmative-action policies that stymied the careers of so many of his family's traditional voters, Kennedy never grasped the depth of the blue-collar frustration as he veered left. What infuriated them even more was that so many of them had grown up in homes where on one side of the mantel was a faded photo of the martyred JFK, and on the other, the pope, with a dried-up Palm Sunday frond between them. Chappaquiddick, of course, never went away. But sometimes, Kennedy could seem oblivious even to that ultimate blemish on his career. In 1974, when President Ford pardoned Richard Nixon for his Watergate crimes, Kennedy issued this thundering statement: "Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law? Or is there one system for the average citizen, and another for the high and mighty?" On issue after issue, he was wrong -- the nuclear freeze, the Reagan tax cuts, the Immigration Reform Act of 1965, which he assured his Senate colleagues would not lead to a "flood" of immigrants into America's cities. With a TelePrompTer, he could be articulate, but when he wasn't using his glasses to read a prepared statement, he was often an oratorical mess. In 2005, at the National Press Club, he referred to the current president as "Osama bin La -- uh, Osama, Obama, uh, Obama." Yet he was always protected by most media, who shared his views on just about everything. In 1962, at the behest of President Kennedy, the Boston Globe played the story of Ted's expulsion from Harvard below the fold on the front page. To the end, the Globe did its best to shield him. Last week, the struggling New York Times-owned broadsheet broke the story of his deathbed attempt to change the Massachusetts law on Senate succession, without mentioning that he had lobbied in 2004 to enact the law he was now denouncing as undemocratic. Only then, he was for stripping the governor of his right to fill a Senate vacancy, because the governor was a Republican. The Globe reported that Kennedy was much concerned that the people of Massachusetts would have no representation in the Senate for five months until the special election. The fact that he'd missed 97 percent of the Senate roll-call votes in 2009 was not noted until the next day -- in a different newspaper. The hagiography will continue through the weekend. We all agree that Ted Kennedy should rest in peace. But let's not forget that there was more -- much more -- to his "legacy" than is being reported on MSNBC. Howie Carr is a columnist for The Bos ton Herald. Pre-1995 - DTC codes OBD1 >> 1996 and newer - DTC codes OBD2 >> https://www.obd-codes.com/trouble_codes/gm/obd_codes.htm How to check for codes Caddyinfo How To Technical Archive >> http://www.caddyinfo.com/wordpress/cadillac-how-to-faq/ Cadillac History & Specifications Year by Year http://www.motorera.com/cadillac/index.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimD Posted August 28, 2009 Report Share Posted August 28, 2009 At the very least, Ted has replaced Michael Jackson as the lead story. Jim Drive your car. Use your cell phone. CHOOSE ONE ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarrenJ Posted August 28, 2009 Report Share Posted August 28, 2009 Well, there IS that . . . There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved. - Ludwig von Mises Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarrenJ Posted August 28, 2009 Report Share Posted August 28, 2009 BLINDED BY A LIFE OF PRIVILEGE By HOWIE CARR August 27, 2009 -- WHILE offering condolences to the Kennedy family at this sad moment, it's important to note that Ted Kennedy's life was not as simple or heroic as is now being portrayed. Can't argue with that. The timing, however, was poor. Lion or not, he was the last of an American dynasty. Give him that. Regards, Warren There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved. - Ludwig von Mises Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BodybyFisher Posted August 28, 2009 Report Share Posted August 28, 2009 My timing?, the author's timing or his death's timing? Pre-1995 - DTC codes OBD1 >> 1996 and newer - DTC codes OBD2 >> https://www.obd-codes.com/trouble_codes/gm/obd_codes.htm How to check for codes Caddyinfo How To Technical Archive >> http://www.caddyinfo.com/wordpress/cadillac-how-to-faq/ Cadillac History & Specifications Year by Year http://www.motorera.com/cadillac/index.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranger Posted August 28, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 28, 2009 At the very least, Ted has replaced Michael Jackson as the lead story. Wonder which one would get the lead if they where both buried on the same day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarrenJ Posted August 28, 2009 Report Share Posted August 28, 2009 My timing?, the author's timing or his death's timing? YES There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved. - Ludwig von Mises Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BodybyFisher Posted August 28, 2009 Report Share Posted August 28, 2009 My timing?, the author's timing or his death's timing? YES All of the above? Listen, anyone who loves this man can turn on the MSM and listen to the cheerleaders. The dems and moveon.org are using him to promote their agenda, keep your guard up. We are too nice, lets call a spade a spade Pre-1995 - DTC codes OBD1 >> 1996 and newer - DTC codes OBD2 >> https://www.obd-codes.com/trouble_codes/gm/obd_codes.htm How to check for codes Caddyinfo How To Technical Archive >> http://www.caddyinfo.com/wordpress/cadillac-how-to-faq/ Cadillac History & Specifications Year by Year http://www.motorera.com/cadillac/index.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarrenJ Posted August 28, 2009 Report Share Posted August 28, 2009 Absent his Spadeness, I'd prefer not to speak ill of him for at least 24 or so hours. All's fair in the aftermath. Check with me tomorrow. I expect I won't disappoint you. --W There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved. - Ludwig von Mises Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BodybyFisher Posted August 28, 2009 Report Share Posted August 28, 2009 I hear you, and your attitude is the reason why 'the good guys' are getting their azz's kicked.................... right now, moveon is using his death http://www.capitalresearch.org/blog/2009/0...hcare-takeover/ http://www.moveon.org/ lets be careful Pre-1995 - DTC codes OBD1 >> 1996 and newer - DTC codes OBD2 >> https://www.obd-codes.com/trouble_codes/gm/obd_codes.htm How to check for codes Caddyinfo How To Technical Archive >> http://www.caddyinfo.com/wordpress/cadillac-how-to-faq/ Cadillac History & Specifications Year by Year http://www.motorera.com/cadillac/index.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BodybyFisher Posted August 28, 2009 Report Share Posted August 28, 2009 http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/26/dems...esty-for-teddy/ I don't think the other side is waiting 24 hours: Kennedy’s Death Spurs Calls to Pass Health Legislation.Jake Sherman reports on Congress. The death of Sen. Edward Kennedy quickly became a rallying cry for Congress to pass health care overhaul legislation. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office sent an email to reporters at around 2:30 a.m. today, just hours after his death, calling for the passage of health care overhaul. “Ted Kennedy’s dream of quality health care for all Americans will be made real this year because of his leadership and his inspiration,” the statement read. Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union, also issued a statement this morning calling for the passage of health care overhaul. “Let us continue his cause,” Stern said. “Let us take action this year to pass health care reform. And let us continue to build Kennedy’s vision of America.” South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn, the House majority whip, said: “As we move forward with health reform legislation, his absence will be palpable. But let us use his inspirational words as our guide, to rise to our best ideals and finally provide decent quality health care to all Americans as a fundamental right, not a privilege.” Kennedy, who spent the past year battling brain cancer, had frequently called health-care overhaul the “cause of my life.” Copyright 2008 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/26/k...l_n_269278.html Pre-1995 - DTC codes OBD1 >> 1996 and newer - DTC codes OBD2 >> https://www.obd-codes.com/trouble_codes/gm/obd_codes.htm How to check for codes Caddyinfo How To Technical Archive >> http://www.caddyinfo.com/wordpress/cadillac-how-to-faq/ Cadillac History & Specifications Year by Year http://www.motorera.com/cadillac/index.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarrenJ Posted August 28, 2009 Report Share Posted August 28, 2009 I hear you, and your attitude is the reason why 'the good guys' are getting their azz's kicked.................... Not Fair! There's no reason not to be respectful. It's the other side that doesn't respect that feeling. I'll NOT be among them. Tomorrow is another day; I'll be biting ankles and chewing knee caps soon enough! I've simply taken one day off. Regards, Warren There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved. - Ludwig von Mises Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BodybyFisher Posted August 28, 2009 Report Share Posted August 28, 2009 Good for you, I tip my hat to you, but if you recall McCain was SO SO nice..... Pre-1995 - DTC codes OBD1 >> 1996 and newer - DTC codes OBD2 >> https://www.obd-codes.com/trouble_codes/gm/obd_codes.htm How to check for codes Caddyinfo How To Technical Archive >> http://www.caddyinfo.com/wordpress/cadillac-how-to-faq/ Cadillac History & Specifications Year by Year http://www.motorera.com/cadillac/index.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarrenJ Posted August 28, 2009 Report Share Posted August 28, 2009 I'm guessing the Dems aren't stupid enough to do the "Paul Wellstone" thing again I'm probably wrong. --W There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved. - Ludwig von Mises Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarrenJ Posted August 28, 2009 Report Share Posted August 28, 2009 Good for you, I tip my hat to you, but if you recall McCain was SO SO nice..... McCain never had a chance to be force fed my shorts! I'm not too happy with The "W" either. Regards, Warren There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved. - Ludwig von Mises Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KHE Posted August 29, 2009 Report Share Posted August 29, 2009 http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/26/dems...esty-for-teddy/ I don't think the other side is waiting 24 hours: Kennedy’s Death Spurs Calls to Pass Health Legislation.Jake Sherman reports on Congress. The death of Sen. Edward Kennedy quickly became a rallying cry for Congress to pass health care overhaul legislation. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office sent an email to reporters at around 2:30 a.m. today, just hours after his death, calling for the passage of health care overhaul. “Ted Kennedy’s dream of quality health care for all Americans will be made real this year because of his leadership and his inspiration,” the statement read. Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union, also issued a statement this morning calling for the passage of health care overhaul. “Let us continue his cause,” Stern said. “Let us take action this year to pass health care reform. And let us continue to build Kennedy’s vision of America.” South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn, the House majority whip, said: “As we move forward with health reform legislation, his absence will be palpable. But let us use his inspirational words as our guide, to rise to our best ideals and finally provide decent quality health care to all Americans as a fundamental right, not a privilege.” Kennedy, who spent the past year battling brain cancer, had frequently called health-care overhaul the “cause of my life.” Copyright 2008 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/26/k...l_n_269278.html Leave it to the dems to to use Teddy's death to further their cause... How the news media makes him out to be such a saint makes my gag reflex kick in. If he were not a Kennedy, he'd have been in jail for the Chappequidick incident... Kevin '93 Fleetwood Brougham '05 Deville '04 Deville 2013 Silverado Z71 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranger Posted August 29, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 29, 2009 If he were not a Kennedy, he'd have been in jail for the Chappequidick incident... I've been saying that for years. One less drunk on the road. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.