Jake Havechek: Yeah, we need to start more unnecessary wars without funding and give more money to rich people, then the economy will magically fix itself, right?

exactly! moar tax cuts for the rich! poor people and whatever is left of the middle class...them folks can have more restrictive laws. hey, that's fair, right?

The Homer Tax: Quoting myself from another thread:

61% of people think that either: Congress, Wall Street, or George W Bush are "most to blame" about the economy compared to 34% who think Obama is.

This is bad news...for Obama.

Which is also pretty much the exact % of Americans who are die hard Republicans. Strange that.

randomjsa: Pocket Ninja: Look. The fact of the matter is that, for three years now, Obama has walked into the Oval Office every morning (assuming he wasn't on some taxpayer-funded jaunt to Asia that tied up half our available naval fleet and cost hundreds of millions of dollars), sat down in his leather armchair that cost more than most Americans will earn in a lifetime, and chosen to press the "ruin economy" button on his desk. Every single time. Most presidents learn to not press that button after two, three months. They learn that the button next to it, "maintain economy," or the button next to that one, "improve economy," are the ones they should use. But not Obama. Obama just keeps pressing the same button, over and over and over again. Einstein told us that insanity is doing the same thing again and expecting to still be fooled. But you can't be fooled again, that's the thing. Unless you're Obama. He's choosing this and that's what I think is unconscieinshaeable.

Hm, actually that's a fairly accurate description of what Obama has done for the last 3 years.

But it's nice to see you admit to it anyway.

Someone's on the derp side of the moon today.

randomjsa: Pocket Ninja: Look. The fact of the matter is that, for three years now, Obama has walked into the Oval Office every morning (assuming he wasn't on some taxpayer-funded jaunt to Asia that tied up half our available naval fleet and cost hundreds of millions of dollars), sat down in his leather armchair that cost more than most Americans will earn in a lifetime, and chosen to press the "ruin economy" button on his desk. Every single time. Most presidents learn to not press that button after two, three months. They learn that the button next to it, "maintain economy," or the button next to that one, "improve economy," are the ones they should use. But not Obama. Obama just keeps pressing the same button, over and over and over again. Einstein told us that insanity is doing the same thing again and expecting to still be fooled. But you can't be fooled again, that's the thing. Unless you're Obama. He's choosing this and that's what I think is unconscieinshaeable.

Hm, actually that's a fairly accurate description of what Obama has done for the last 3 years.

But it's nice to see you admit to it anyway.

I know right. Because if it really were that easy, of course Obama would be pushing the "Improve economy" button. I mean, why would he continue pushing the "Ruin economy" button?

Unless, he's...

trying to...

DESTROY AMERICA!!!!!

amirite?

DirkValentine: sooooooo......34% is a majority now?

Who the fark writes these articles?

The same people who think a Rasmussen poll is legitimate.

phreezen: [farm4.static.flickr.com image 458x500]

I had a job under the Bush Administration!!! And got fired twice under Barry's.

Is Keith Olbermann still unemployed?

No.

hugram: I guess these likely voters forgot how the GDP was -8% during Bush's last quarter... the economy losing 700K jobs a month from late 08 to early 09... world stock markets crashing, etc.

I did not know the economy was worse now than it was then.

Well, of course it is. Just look at gas prices the day before Obama was sworn in compared to now!

derp

phreezen: cameroncrazy1984: phreezen: [farm4.static.flickr.com image 458x500]

I had a job under the Bush Administration!!! And got fired twice under Barry's.

Is Keith Olbermann still unemployed?

No.

What's his new job?

Why are you so interested?

phreezen: cameroncrazy1984: phreezen: cameroncrazy1984: phreezen: [farm4.static.flickr.com image 458x500]

I had a job under the Bush Administration!!! And got fired twice under Barry's.

Is Keith Olbermann still unemployed?

No.

What's his new job?

Why are you so interested?

It's a simple question.

Why don't you ask him?

/this is fun!

It's taken this long?

Dear Sheldon,

You apparently don't understand the difference between plurality and majority. Let me explain. When the highest proportion of respondents give a particular answer, but that proportion is no more than 50%, the result is a plurality, not a majority. A majority only exists when the proportion is more than 50%. For example, in the poll a plurality of likely voters (34%) said Obama is "most to blame for America's economic woes", but a majority (61%) said the cause was something else. On the other hand, when asked whether Republicans in Congress have done the right things to revive the economy, a majority (57%) said "No". Do you understand now?

Sincerely,
DarwiOdrade

xaveth: Vote Democrat again for More Hope n Change... for real!

Yea, we really got jobbed with that nonsense.

Let me take a close look at the guy going against Hopey McChangey..



[X] Obama
[ ] Romney

cameroncrazy1984: Slives: Yea, I have said it before, but the president has about as much control over the economy has my 4 year old strapped into her child seat as control over my car.

Obama does have a pretty bad economic record,

Wat.

HAH! That does sound pretty stupid like that. I think I meant to say his effort has been pretty bad IMHO. He could have spent a lot more time and effort with pushing bills that were designed to help the economy. Instead, he spent much of the first 2 years getting the healthcare stuff passed and otherwise spent a lot of time trying not to ruffle too many feathers.
I sort of hopes he wins a second term and decides to forgo the bipartisan crap and starts pushing hard. Either he will steam roll the Republicans or prove that he really is in over his head.

Serious Black: Headso: Cletus C.: I am led to believe

conservatism in a nutshell

You mean authoritarianism, specifically right-wing authoritarianism.

OK, so 21st-century conservatism.