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		Jobless claims rise for the first time in 4 months, which I'm sure has nothing to do with the sequester (latimes.com)		265
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Philip Francis Queeg		2013-04-04 12:51:31 PM

So today will be a "The sequester is a terrible idea that Obama personally forced on an unwilling Congress" day?

ExpressPork		2013-04-04 12:51:46 PM

At what point will liberals snap out of it and hold the President's and his policies accountable for our stagnant economy?

Tomahawk513		2013-04-04 12:52:28 PM

Thanks, Obama!

SN1987a goes boom		2013-04-04 12:53:56 PM

Philip Francis Queeg: So today will be a "The sequester is a terrible idea that Obama personally forced on an unwilling Congress" day?

ExpressPork: At what point will liberals snap out of it and hold the President's and his policies accountable for our stagnant economy?

I guess so.

cabbyman		2013-04-04 12:54:05 PM

Philip Francis Queeg: So today will be a "The sequester is a terrible idea that Obama personally forced on an unwilling Congress" day?

Kind of like Bush and the Iraq war!

Gergesa		2013-04-04 12:54:14 PM

The government does not and cannot create jobs!!!! Oh and the election was stolen by acorn and George Soros. Or something.

Lionel Mandrake		2013-04-04 12:54:46 PM

That's a lot of unemployed tour guides.

I've been told that canceling White House tours is the only effect of the sequester...

Teufelaffe		2013-04-04 12:55:42 PM

ExpressPork: At what point will liberals snap out of it and hold the President's and his policies accountable for our stagnant economy?

Which President?

coeyagi		2013-04-04 12:57:30 PM

ExpressPork: At what point will liberals snap out of it and hold the President's and his policies accountable for our stagnant economy?

Debt ceiling, debt ceiling make me some debt! F*ck me a f*ck! Rape me a rape!

Debt ceiling, debt ceiling make me some debt! John Boehner, 98% for him to get! His orange face make me wet.

Coming soon to a THEATER near YOU! "Debt Ceiling Debate: How the GOP Dildos Forgot That 2011 Existed".

maniacbastard		2013-04-04 12:57:38 PM

ExpressPork: At what point will liberals snap out of it and hold the President's and his policies accountable for our stagnant economy?

You've got a chicken under your desk, don't you?

Louie Gohmert would like to have a word with you.

Lord_Baull		2013-04-04 12:57:47 PM

Damn, you, FartBlahma!!

I KNEW I should have voted Romney, but the GOP's laser-like focus on jobs was overshadowed by Obama's dreamy smile and the liberal media's unfair attacks on the Right. That, and the free stuff I was promised.

FreetardoRivera		2013-04-04 12:58:35 PM

ExpressPork: At what point will liberals snap out of it and hold the President's and his policies accountable for our stagnant economy?

You know you are right!

I have now decided that I won't vote for Obama is 2016.

JolobinSmokin		2013-04-04 12:58:36 PM

cabbyman: Philip Francis Queeg: So today will be a "The sequester is a terrible idea that Obama personally forced on an unwilling Congress" day?

Kind of like Bush and the Iraq war!

I always say it was terrible idea for Obama to invade Iraq and Afghanistan.

History's worst monster

Le Grand Inquisitor		2013-04-04 12:59:18 PM

So this is the "Moving Forward" we voted for in November? Obama should amend his slogan, just a bit..

s2s2s2		2013-04-04 12:59:59 PM

Philip Francis Queeg: So today will be a "The sequester is a terrible idea that Obama personally forced on an unwilling Congress" day?

You mean like the Iraq war?

quizzical		2013-04-04 01:00:10 PM

ExpressPork: At what point will liberals snap out of it and hold the President's and his policies accountable for our stagnant economy?

Which of Obama's policies do you believe are responsible for the stagnant economy?

DarwiOdrade		2013-04-04 01:01:27 PM

coeyagi		2013-04-04 01:01:37 PM

ExpressPork: At what point will liberals snap out of it and hold the President's and his policies accountable for our stagnant economy?

You're right. DAMN YOU, CHRONOBAMA! Use your time machine to take away Medicare Part D, the housing bubble, 2 wars and unwarranted tax breaks. And Goldman Sachs.

Teufelaffe		2013-04-04 01:01:41 PM

s2s2s2		2013-04-04 01:01:46 PM

cabbyman: Kind of like Bush and the Iraq war!

Did not see that you had this barb covered.

Byno		2013-04-04 01:02:05 PM

s2s2s2		2013-04-04 01:02:49 PM

FreetardoRivera: I have now decided that I won't vote for Obama is 2016.

No way he's that old, and why would it change your mind about voting?

gravy chugging cretin.		2013-04-04 01:03:34 PM

mrshowrules		2013-04-04 01:03:36 PM

ExpressPork: At what point will liberals snap out of it and hold the President's and his policies accountable for our stagnant economy?

His policies? If he had been allowed to enact any of his policies, I would certainly consider the impact they had. To the extent he is responsible for moving from an economy in freefall, to a stagnant economy to a slow recovery is debatable. It is however clear that he has prevented the GOP from buggering it up further.

DarwiOdrade		2013-04-04 01:03:39 PM

phaseolus		2013-04-04 01:03:44 PM

coeyagi: ExpressPork: At what point will liberals snap out of it and hold the President's and his policies accountable for our stagnant economy?

Debt ceiling, debt ceiling make me some debt! F*ck me a f*ck! Rape me a rape!

Debt ceiling, debt ceiling make me some debt! John Boehner, 98% for him to get! His orange face make me wet.

Coming soon to a THEATER near YOU! "Debt Ceiling Debate: How the GOP Dildos Forgot That 2011 Existed".

Y'know, without too much work we could make a whole musical outta this --

♪ ♫ At three I started parochial school
At ten I learned a trade
My mother's picked a chicken for me
I hope she's pretty... ♫

s2s2s2		2013-04-04 01:04:21 PM

Byno: [sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net image 647x411]

I just lost my ability to have one of those due to my recently increased wages.

DAMN YOU OBAMA, MAMA MAMA WON'T YOU LEND ME A DIME!?

Lord_Baull		2013-04-04 01:05:10 PM

cabbyman: Philip Francis Queeg: So today will be a "The sequester is a terrible idea that Obama personally forced on an unwilling Congress" day?

Kind of like Bush and the Iraq war!

With a republican majority, there was no "unwilling congress." But keep up the potato, you're doing great!

s2s2s2		2013-04-04 01:06:46 PM

Lord_Baull: there was no "unwilling congress."

...in either situation.

That was the point, Mr Potato Head.

Should have kept it in the chamber.

Mrtraveler01		2013-04-04 01:07:55 PM

mrshowrules: ExpressPork: At what point will liberals snap out of it and hold the President's and his policies accountable for our stagnant economy?

His policies? If he had been allowed to enact any of his policies, I would certainly consider the impact they had. To the extent he is responsible for moving from an economy in freefall, to a stagnant economy to a slow recovery is debatable. It is however clear that he has prevented the GOP from buggering it up further.

It's Obama's fault because he won't greenlight every dumbass idea the Republicans in the House pull out of their ass.

sjmcc13		2013-04-04 01:07:58 PM

quizzical: ExpressPork: At what point will liberals snap out of it and hold the President's and his policies accountable for our stagnant economy?

Which of Obama's policies do you believe are responsible for the stagnant economy?

The policy of not charging Politicians who have been acting directly against the countries best interest (preventing congress and the senate from doing thie jobs) with Treason, and having them executed in front of the rest...

Debeo Summa Credo		2013-04-04 01:08:18 PM

coeyagi: ExpressPork: At what point will liberals snap out of it and hold the President's and his policies accountable for our stagnant economy?

You're right. DAMN YOU, CHRONOBAMA! Use your time machine to take away Medicare Part D, the housing bubble, 2 wars and unwarranted tax breaks. And Goldman Sachs.

Goldman Sachs! Goldman Sachs!! Goldman Sachs!!!

Damn you Goldman Sachs!!!

/I agree with the rest of your post, pretty much. I don't like alot of what Obama has done but I don't hold him responsible for the crummy economy in the midst of massive deleveraging in the wake of the housing bubble. And Bush was terrible.

God's Hubris		2013-04-04 01:09:04 PM

So, republican history revisionists are now saying Bush didn't want to invade Iraq, it was the Democratic minority that forced him to invade?

God, you people should put down the meth pipe.

Lost Thought 00		2013-04-04 01:12:00 PM

Should have voted for Republicans who wanted to make deeper, more permanent cuts

Wadded Beef		2013-04-04 01:13:43 PM

ExpressPork: At what point will liberals snap out of it and hold the President's and his policies accountable for our stagnant economy?

10/10. Wow (clap...clap...clap...)

mrshowrules		2013-04-04 01:17:30 PM

God's Hubris: So, republican history revisionists are now saying Bush didn't want to invade Iraq, it was the Democratic minority that forced him to invade?

God, you people should put down the meth pipe.

They blame Barney Frank for the housing crisis even though it was a Republic Chair of the committee that passed all the regulation changes. So it would seem par for the course.

s2s2s2		2013-04-04 01:17:49 PM

God's Hubris: So, republican history revisionists are now saying Bush didn't want to invade Iraq, it was the Democratic minority that forced him to invade?

God, you people should put down the meth pipe.

No. We are saying Obama came up with the sequester, and now fans of the D team want to pretend it is all congress' fault.

You got it now?

FreetardoRivera		2013-04-04 01:19:48 PM

God's Hubris: So, republican history revisionists are now saying Bush didn't want to invade Iraq, it was the Democratic minority that forced him to invade?

God, you people should put down the meth pipe.

While you are correct it is still important that out of the 58% of the democrat senators and 40% of the congressmen voted for the Iraq war.

s2s2s2		2013-04-04 01:21:09 PM

mrshowrules: They blame Barney Frank for

...lying about his stand on home ownership. When Bush warned of the impending bubble in his first three budgets, Frank called him a racist for trying to deny blah people home ownership. That got a lot of press.

When it was all said and done, Barns said that he was never in support of more homeownership for the lower income folks, but was instead was in vocal support of their renting.

He was lying.

s2s2s2		2013-04-04 01:24:31 PM

mrshowrules: They blame Barney Frank for the housing crisis even though it was

Bill Clinton that signed the bill deregulating banking to allow for the clusterfark that EVEN BILL, HIMSELF, admits Bush warned about.

skullkrusher		2013-04-04 01:26:07 PM

Lionel Mandrake: That's a lot of unemployed tour guides.

I've been told that canceling White House tours is the only effect of the sequester...

came to do this

sabreWulf07		2013-04-04 01:26:56 PM

s2s2s2: No. We are saying Obama came up with the sequester, and now fans of the D team want to pretend it is all congress' fault.

You got it now?

I thought a bipartisan committee came up with it, as a consequence should they completely fail to reach an agreement, on a fight about the debt ceiling that Republicans started, that they used to regard as a mundane procedural action. Why did they threaten to default on our sovereign debt, take America hostage, force a showdown, sign off on the sequester as a consequence of failure and crow about getting 98% of what they wanted?

How can can something originate, be debated on, voted and passed into law by the congress, on an entirely optional procedural fight started by Republicans and yet not be congress' fault? Put me in the "I don't get it" column.

Lord_Baull		2013-04-04 01:27:14 PM

s2s2s2: Lord_Baull: there was no "unwilling congress."
...in either situation.
That was the point, Mr Potato Head.
Should have kept it in the chamber.

s2s2s2: Philip Francis Queeg: So today will be a "The sequester is a terrible idea that Obama personally forced on an unwilling Congress" day?

You mean like the Iraq war?

Your "point" was that there was no unwilling congress in the Iraq War just like there was no unwilling congress in the sequester? You're attempt at analogies fails harder than Ted Haggard's dick at a truckstop. You don't make any sense from one post to the next.

Lord_Baull		2013-04-04 01:27:51 PM

also, you don't get to use the potato meme.

Ruinous Works		2013-04-04 01:28:42 PM

skullkrusher		2013-04-04 01:29:10 PM

Lord_Baull: also, you don't get to use the potato meme.

yeah, that's some comedic gold. You should be jealously protective of that one.

Lord_Baull		2013-04-04 01:29:47 PM

FreetardoRivera: God's Hubris: So, republican history revisionists are now saying Bush didn't want to invade Iraq, it was the Democratic minority that forced him to invade?

God, you people should put down the meth pipe.

While you are correct it is still important that out of the 58% of the democrat senators and 40% of the congressmen voted for the Iraq war.

Um, no. They voted to authorize force after all other diplomatic efforts have failed. Bush charged into Iraq like a drunken cowboy at a bar mitzvah without waiting.

Teufelaffe		2013-04-04 01:30:00 PM

s2s2s2: God's Hubris: So, republican history revisionists are now saying Bush didn't want to invade Iraq, it was the Democratic minority that forced him to invade?

God, you people should put down the meth pipe.

No. We are saying Obama came up with the sequester, Congress agreed to it, then refused to do anything to avoid it, and now fans of the D team want to pretend it is all congress' fault.

You got it now?

FTFY

Who's idea it was initially is irrelevant. What matters is that those who claimed they got 98% of what they wanted out of the sequester deal not only didn't do anything to avoid the sequester, they're now refusing to accept responsibility for their f*ck ups that allowed it to happen. The Republicans in Congress are teenagers who agreed to obey curfew and mow the lawn or they'd lose their car, then stayed out 'till 1am every night and didn't do jack to the lawn and are suddenly screaming about how it's not fair and it's all their mean parents' fault that their car is getting taken away. Yes, the sequester was Obama's idea, but it was Congress' responsibility to keep it from happening. They failed to do their f*cking jobs, so that makes it their fault.

Lord_Baull		2013-04-04 01:31:05 PM

s2s2s2		2013-04-04 01:31:40 PM

Lord_Baull: Your "point" was that there was no unwilling congress in the Iraq War just like there was no unwilling congress in the sequester?

Congress allowed for both, so as a body, there was willingness for both.

Doing something implies willingness. An Obama staffer had the idea for the Sequester. It was the same guy that Woodward tried to say threatened him over who to blame for the sequester.

Congress may be unwilling NOW, to defeat it, but they passed it.

sabreWulf07: I thought a bipartisan

The idea came from the whitehouse.

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