http://gratewire.com/tags/boehner News & Opinion - Grated Fresh Daily en-US Sat, 25 May 2013 09:48:56 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://gratewire.com/search.php http://gratewire.com/topic/boehner-spends-3-million-on-legal-retainer-for-doma-#post-122971 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 14:11:49 +0000 Beach Baby 122971@http://gratewire.com/ <p>WASHINGTON -- House Republican leaders have signed on to spend up to $3 million to keep defending the Defense of Marriage Act in court, according to a copy of their newly revised legal contract obtained by The Huffington Post.</p> <p>House Republican leaders took over the legal defense of DOMA in the spring of 2011, when Attorney General Eric Holder announced the Obama administration would no longer defend it on the grounds that they found it unconstitutional. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and other GOP leaders hired attorneys at the law firm Bancroft LLC to represent the House in court cases involving the federal ban on gay marriage -- all with taxpayer dollars.</p> <p>They won't pay America's bills or feed starving children in schools, but the Frighties will "waste" $3 Million dollars for lawyers for the Defense of Marriage Act.</p> <p>_______________________________________________</p> <p><img alt="Doma Republicans" src="http://i.huffpost.com/gen/942523/thumbs/r-DOMA-REPUBLICANS-large570.jpg?6" /></p> <p>On Jan. 4, Rep. Candice Miller (R-Mich.), who chairs the House Administration Committee, signed <a href="http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/HuffPoDoma.pdf" target="_hplink" rel="nofollow">a revised contract</a> with Bancroft LLC that increases the spending cap to $3 million to allow Bancroft attorneys to keep defending DOMA in various court cases. The revised contract also bears the signatures of Bancroft partner Paul Clement and Kerry Kircher, general counsel for the House of Representatives.</p> <p>"It is further understood and agreed that, effective January 4, 2013, the aforementioned $2,750,000.00 cap may be raised from time to time up to, but not exceeding, $3,000,000.00, up on written notice of the General Counsel to the Contractor specifying that the General Counsel is legally liable," the contract reads.</p> <p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/15/doma-republicans_n_2479666.html?ref=topbar" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/15/doma-republicans_n_2479666.html?ref=topbar</a></p> <p> </p> http://gratewire.com/topic/republican-arguments-and-delay-in-raising-the-debt-ceiling-cost-huge-money#post-110486 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:26:40 +0000 california rick 110486@http://gratewire.com/ <blockquote><p> So when do we put a limit on the debt ceiling... </p></blockquote> <p> How about <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><strong>before</strong></em></span> the money is spent.  What a concept!  Republicans want to cut the money flow off once they got what they wanted with the money they borrowed, say, like paying for the Bush Era tax cuts.</p> <p>Yes, continuing the Bush Era tax cuts adds to the deficit.  I know Faux and Limbaugh don't share those details with Republicans.</p> http://gratewire.com/topic/republican-arguments-and-delay-in-raising-the-debt-ceiling-cost-huge-money#post-110481 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:49:46 +0000 jst-the-fax1 110481@http://gratewire.com/ <p>So when do we put a limit on the debt ceiling B-each?  When it hits $20 or $30 trillion?  You do realize that we pay interest on that debt...you do realize that fact, right...b-each?</p> http://gratewire.com/topic/republican-arguments-and-delay-in-raising-the-debt-ceiling-cost-huge-money#post-110465 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:07:25 +0000 california rick 110465@http://gratewire.com/ <p>Why do Republicans hate America?  As has been gone over many times <em>ad nauseum</em>, our government has already spent the money.  Now the Republicans want to renege on paying for the money spent.  All this does is lower our credit rating which makes borrowing money more expensive for everybody.</p> http://gratewire.com/topic/republican-arguments-and-delay-in-raising-the-debt-ceiling-cost-huge-money#post-110463 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:27:28 +0000 Beach Baby 110463@http://gratewire.com/ <p><img src="https://encrypted-tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQCXbFtP7VHQYggB0RwxjZviioezUtOpLem3Pw8KtDrMTkw1lC07UAm7cvFRw" /></p> <p>Here's something for Congress to maybe think about the next time it decides to have a big, stupid argument about the debt ceiling: These big, stupid arguments, while entertaining, cost a lot of money.</p> <p>How much money? The 2011 argument about the debt ceiling--the most recent battle--cost the U.S. government about $1.3 billion in extra borrowing costs, according to <a href="http://www.gao.gov/assets/600/592832.pdf" target="_hplink" rel="nofollow">a new study by the Government Accountability Office</a>, the nonpartisan congressional watchdog.</p> <p>John Boehner needs to think about the cost and the long-term damage the next time he wants to flex his puny muscles.</p> <p> </p> http://gratewire.com/topic/catholic-students-go-against-boehner-on-birth-control#post-93319 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:14:26 +0000 Obot 50549535 93319@http://gratewire.com/ <p>I foresee wingnuts scolding Catholics for failing to fall in line with the talking points.</p> <p> </p> http://gratewire.com/topic/catholic-students-go-against-boehner-on-birth-control#post-93313 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:36:51 +0000 Beach Baby 93313@http://gratewire.com/ <p><img alt="Catholicbirthcontrol" src="http://i.huffpost.com/gen/494564/thumbs/s-CATHOLICBIRTHCONTROL-large.jpg" /></p> <p>Catholic students protest against the Bishops and Love Birth Control!</p> http://gratewire.com/topic/catholic-students-go-against-boehner-on-birth-control#post-93312 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:34:12 +0000 Beach Baby 93312@http://gratewire.com/ <p>WASHINGTON -- <em>Single, 18-year-old female, likes having control over her own body, looking for affordable birth control.</em></p> <p>That's Keely Monroe's summary of her life at Fordham University, a Jesuit college in New York. "Finding contraception at Fordham was about as easy as finding a good man from a want ad," Monroe said of her alma mater at a press conference held Thursday in Washington by Catholic Students for Women's Health.</p> <p>The students spoke in favor of available birth control on campuses in light of a new federal rule requiring most employers to cover contraceptives as part of their health insurance benefits. The mandate excludes churches and other houses of worship, but includes faith-based employers such as Catholic universities, which under the rule must also include reproductive services in their student health coverage....</p> <p>...<span>students attending Catholic universities have supported the new measure, an indication of the larger fractures in Catholics' attitude toward reproductive services. Surveys show that 98 percent of sexually active Catholic women </span><a href="http://www.guttmacher.org/media/nr/2011/04/13/index.html" target="_hplink" rel="nofollow">have used contraception</a><span> and that more than half of American Catholics say </span><a href="http://publicreligion.org/research/2012/02/january-tracking-poll-2012/" target="_hplink" rel="nofollow">religiously affiliated colleges should be required</a><span> to include birth control in health coverage.</span></p> <p> </p> http://gratewire.com/topic/boehners-office-cuts-off-c-span-cameras-as-gop-takes-verbal-beating#post-88802 Sun, 25 Dec 2011 23:19:28 +0000 Black Lion 88802@http://gratewire.com/ <p>Sarge, great observation as usual...</p> http://gratewire.com/topic/boehners-office-cuts-off-c-span-cameras-as-gop-takes-verbal-beating#post-88769 Sat, 24 Dec 2011 21:29:20 +0000 IAmWinner 88769@http://gratewire.com/ <p>ditto</p> http://gratewire.com/topic/boehner-blinks-on-payroll-tax-cut-extension#post-88550 Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:58:29 +0000 Hoodie 88550@http://gratewire.com/ <p>Looks like the GOP finally blinked on this one! It is a rare thing for them in these polarized times,  and probably gains them political capital to boot, or at least mitigates the damage they have done to themselves. Glad to see it </p> <p><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/22/politics/congress-payroll-tax-cut/index.html?hpt=hp_t1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/22/politics/congress-payroll-tax-cut/index.html?hpt=hp_t1</a></p> http://gratewire.com/topic/an-utterly-dysfunctional-house-the-gop-is-on-the-losing-side-of-the-issue#post-88498 Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:31:45 +0000 Beach Baby 88498@http://gratewire.com/ <p>The GOP will just put out some crap rhetoric about how they are following the mandate of the public - and the majority of the frightie sheople will believe them.  Of course the mandate was jobs.  Boehner thinks his mandate is to outlaw abortion and to destroy the environment.</p> http://gratewire.com/topic/an-utterly-dysfunctional-house-the-gop-is-on-the-losing-side-of-the-issue#post-88497 Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:49:40 +0000 Black Lion 88497@http://gratewire.com/ <p>An utterly dysfunctional House<span style="white-space: nowrap;"></span></p> <p><a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2011/12/21/gingrich-to-house-gop-give-in-on-payroll-tax/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">The Wall Street Journal</a>: </p> <blockquote><p>Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who famously lost budget battles to President Bill Clinton amid two government shutdowns, had some advice to House Republicans at loggerheads with another Democratic president: Give in.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/200877-rove-says-republicans-should-fold-in-tax-debate" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">The Hill</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>Former Bush adviser Karl Rove said he agreed with the Wall Street Journal’s blistering assessment on the failure of House Republican leadership in the payroll-tax debate, and conceded that Republicans have “lost the optics” and should fold on the issue.</p> <p>“I think the Wall Street Journal editorial hit it right on the nail, the question now is how do Republicans get out of it,” Rove told Fox News on Wednesday.</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.rollcall.com/news/payroll_tax_cut_standoff_begins-211210-1.html?pos=hftxt" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Roll Call</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) echoed those concerns in an interview on CNN tonight, warning a resolution to the standoff must be found.</p> <p>“It seems to me that Republican leaders and Harry Reid and the Speaker and Congresswoman [Nancy] Pelosi should sit down together with the administration and figure out a way through this,” the Arizona Republican said. “It is harming the Republican Party. It is harming the view, if it’s possible, any more of the American people about Congress. And we’ve got to get this thing resolved.”</p> </blockquote> <p>It's a bloodbath. When you've got the single biggest expert on pissy government shutdowns, the top partisan strategist of your party, and even your once-loved, now-not-conservative-enough presidential candidate all admitting not only that the Republicans are on the losing side of the debate, but explicitly telling them to give up already, there's not much there that Congress can console itself with. The only question is, how did the House GOP get to this point?</p> <p><strong>T</strong>he short answer is that I don't think even the House leadership knows quite how it happened. One minute Boehner was negotiating a two-month extension of the payroll tax cut and other measures; the next minute the House was in open revolt against that very plan. Well, that's not quite accurate: the <em>hardliners</em> were in open revolt over that plan, but that's not the reason the Republican leadership killed the vote on the issue, earlier this week. They killed the vote because the payroll tax cut extension was going to <em>pass</em>.</p> <p>So we have a situation in which both parties wanted to pass a tax cut extension, but hostage-taking was so ingrained into the party that they had to hold it hostage just to see what they could get. Glory be, they even <em>got</em> quite a bit, thanks to the unending Democratic desire to give in on things, including the either executive-branch-shattering or completely pointless demand for a 60-day decision on the Keystone pipeline extension, some entitlement cuts, etc. And that's what they got just for extending the tax cut that everybody agreed they wanted for a measly <em>two months</em>.</p> <p>You would think this might count as a victory. You would think so, but you're not a member of the House Republicans, a group so rabid with political rage at this point that if they were dogs, some poor kid would have to have gone all Old Yeller on them by now. Apparently not even the desire to cut taxes could compete with the dismal thought that President Barack Obama might gain a spot of good from it. The hardliners revolted, the slightly-less-hardliners said screw you, hardliners, but we can't vote against a tax cut, the entire caucus had a multi-hour, closed door brawl, and the whole thing went to bloody hell.</p> <p>Last we saw him, then, perennial anti-everything crank Eric Cantor was left explaining that the House wanted the tax cut extension so very badly that they were <em>outraged</em> the Senate was sending them an extension for only two months, and so therefore they were just going to nix the whole thing. Yes. Yes, that's the ticket.</p> <p><strong>W</strong>e have seen this before, in the debt limit fight. The House Republicans are at this point in such disarray that they literally cannot take <em>yes</em> for an answer. No matter what concessions they might squeeze from ever-pliant Democrats or from the White House, it isn't enough. Brinksmanship has become the only way the House can operate; if they're not threatening to shut something down (or the entire government down, if need be), they don't consider themselves to be negotiating properly.</p> <p>I suppose it is to be expected. If you elect a bunch of people who believe that the only good government is a shredded, incompetent, barely-functioning one, you are going to end up with people determined to make good on those beliefs. Whether someone keeps getting a tax cut ten days from now is a load of nothing when compared to the previous round of jeopardizing the national debt rating, basic government functions, Social Security checks and dozens of other things. The supposed Super Congress was a joke from the moment of inception, and true to form, there was never a point where it even came <em>close</em> to success; there was literally no concession Democrats could make that would suffice, at least not one that would still leave the government in recognizable shape afterwards.</p> <p>But forget compromise with Democrats, or the White House: the current fiasco is an entirely self-inflicted wound caused by Republican inability to even negotiate solutions <em>among themselves</em>. They want a tax cut, but insist on voting against it because it is insufficiently ransom-infused; they get the ransom and the tax cut, then block themselves from voting <em>for</em> it because that, too, is not ideologically pure enough. Yes, we can point out that this lower and mid-income tax cut is the only tax cut yet identified by Republicans as needing to be "paid for", after a decade or more of insisting tax cuts for wealthier Americans of course do not need any such balance.</p> <p>Yes, we can point out that the payroll tax cut is itself a dubious and rather pro-Republican proposition to begin with, since it gives the impression that Social Security taxes are perhaps optional, which would be the first and only necessary step towards killing it off entirely. Point out whatever you like, it doesn't matter. One addled, self-contradicting press conference from John Boehner or Eric Cantor should put the lie to the thought that there is any deeper thought process at work here at <em>all</em>.</p> <p>There was a payroll tax cut extension on the table. Even the House Republicans were going to vote for it, at least in small enough numbers for it to actually pass, so it had to be blocked by leadership because <em>Obama wanted it</em>. And screw even tax cuts, if Obama wants them too. Screw all of government, for that matter: anytime any bill passes both the House and the Senate, it is demonstration to the House GOP that they failed, and should have asked for even more.</p> <p>Congress is, at this point, dysfunctional. There seems little room to argue against that. Even party stalwarts are citing this latest fiasco as evidence of House incompetence. Perhaps at the end of it Boehner will get the blame, and be tossed aside; I certainly do <em>not</em> expect the learned lesson to be one that shoves the House in the direction of moderation. Moderation is the same thing as failure, after all, and the best part about controlling a branch of government is that there are always, always, hostages to be ransomed.</p> http://gratewire.com/topic/boehners-office-cuts-off-c-span-cameras-as-gop-takes-verbal-beating#post-88443 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:15:16 +0000 Checker 88443@http://gratewire.com/ <p>LOL!</p> http://gratewire.com/topic/boehners-office-cuts-off-c-span-cameras-as-gop-takes-verbal-beating#post-88440 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:08:24 +0000 Sgt Joe Friday 88440@http://gratewire.com/ <p>Stubbles and no-facts . . . demonstrating tremendous suction as their lips remain fastened to each cheek of Bohner's ass.</p> http://gratewire.com/topic/boehners-office-cuts-off-c-span-cameras-as-gop-takes-verbal-beating#post-88439 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:44:12 +0000 jst-the-fax1 88439@http://gratewire.com/ <p>so the dims don't want to extend the smoke &amp; mirrors tax cut for a year, and try to blame Republicans?  WTF</p> <p>BTW...how many of you realize...SS is taken out pretax...so not only does it reduce the amount you pay into that account, but  increases your taxable income by the same amount.  </p> http://gratewire.com/topic/boehners-office-cuts-off-c-span-cameras-as-gop-takes-verbal-beating#post-88438 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:29:44 +0000 stubborn bubble 88438@http://gratewire.com/ <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=uhznbgpwY-s" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=uhznbgpwY-s</a></p> <p><h2>Video: Dem Rep. Steny Hoyer Gets His Panties In a Bunch After Reporter Calls Congressional Gridlock “Dog And Pony Show”…</h2></p> <p> </p> http://gratewire.com/topic/boehners-office-cuts-off-c-span-cameras-as-gop-takes-verbal-beating#post-88437 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:28:02 +0000 stubborn bubble 88437@http://gratewire.com/ <p><h2>It’s Official: US Debt-To-GDP Passes 100%…</h2></p> <p><img height="375" src="http://weaselzippers.us/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Obama-Money.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black;" width="500" /></p> <p>We’re screwed.</p> <p>Via <a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/its-official-us-debtgdp-passes-100" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Zero Hedge</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>With precisely one year left for the world and all of its<br /> inhabitants, at least according to the Mayans, not to mention on the<br /> day of the Winter Solstice, it is only fitting that US debt, net of all<br /> settlements for all <em>already completed </em>bond auctions, is now at precisely $15,182,756,264,288.80. Why is this relevant? Because the latest annualized US GDP, <a href="http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2011/pdf/gdp3q11_2nd.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">according to the BEA</a>,<br /> was $15,180,900,000.00. Which means that, as of today, total US debt to<br /> GDP is 100.012%. Congratulations America: you are now in the triple<br /> digit “debt to GDP” club!</p> <p><strong>I.</strong> Total debt as of December 20: $15,131,979,264,288,80 (<a href="http://www.savingsbonds.gov/NP/BPDLogin?application=np" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">source</a>)</p> <p><strong>II.</strong> Net cash settlement of all completed auctions: $50,777,000,000 (<a href="http://www.treasurydirect.gov/instit/annceresult/press/press_cashpydwn.htm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">source</a>)</p> <p><strong>III.</strong> Total GDP: $15,180,900,000,000 (<a href="http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2011/pdf/gdp3q11_2nd.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">source</a>)</p> <p><strong>=&gt;</strong> Total Debt/GDP= $15,182,756,264,288.80/$15,180,900,000,000 = 100.012%</p> <p><a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/its-official-us-debtgdp-passes-100" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><em>Keep reading…</em></a></p> </blockquote> http://gratewire.com/topic/boehners-office-cuts-off-c-span-cameras-as-gop-takes-verbal-beating#post-88436 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:27:16 +0000 stubborn bubble 88436@http://gratewire.com/ <p>Yes the tax and spend democrat morons have to be stopped..</p> http://gratewire.com/topic/boehners-office-cuts-off-c-span-cameras-as-gop-takes-verbal-beating#post-88434 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:21:09 +0000 Checker 88434@http://gratewire.com/ <p>THESE ARROGANT GOP MOTHERFUCKERS NEED TO BE STOPPED!!!!</p> http://gratewire.com/topic/boehners-office-cuts-off-c-span-cameras-as-gop-takes-verbal-beating#post-88433 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:20:14 +0000 Checker 88433@http://gratewire.com/ <p><a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/21/boehners-office-cuts-off-c-span-cameras-as-gop-takes-beating/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">RAW STORY</a></p> <p><img height="345" src="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/housecspanshot-screen1.jpg" width="615" /></p> <p>A strange thing happened Wednesday morning on Capitol Hill.</p> <p>As Rep. Stenny Hoyer (D-MD) attempted to call for a vote to extend a payroll tax cut to middle class and working Americans, his Republican colleagues adjourned the House and walked out of the chamber. And if that weren’t odd enough, it got even stranger: As Hoyer railed against them for failing to help working Americans, footage from C-SPAN went silent, then cut away.</p> <p>Moments later, C-SPAN took to the Internet to explain that it wasn’t their doing, but someone working for House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH).</p> <p>The incident occurred mere moments after the House went into session. Hoyer made a motion for a vote on the Senate’s payroll tax cut extension, which would extend the lower rates for another two months, but the Republican presiding over the House did not acknowledge the motion. He instead adjourned the House, then got up and walked out.</p> <p>“As you walk off the floor, Mr. Speaker, you’re walking away, just as so many Republicans have walked away from taxpayers, the unemployed, and very frankly, as well, from those who will be seeking medical assistance from their doctors, 48 million senior citizens,” Hoyer can be heard saying.</p> <p>“We regret, Mr. Speaker, that you have walked off the platform without addressing the issue of critical importance to this country, and that is the continuation of the middle class tax cut, the continuation of unemployment benefits for those at risk of losing them, and a continuation of the access to doctors for all those 48 million seniors who rely on them daily for help.”<br />And that’s when the audio cut out. Seconds later, footage faded to a shot of the capitol from outside.</p> <p>Moments later, someone at C-SPAN took to Twitter and explained: “C-SPAN has no control over the U.S. House TV cameras – the Speaker of the House does.”</p> <p>It’s for reasons just like this, one might infer, that Boehner told C-SPAN back in February it would not be allowed control its own cameras.</p> <p>The non-partisan political network, produced as a courtesy by the nation’s cable operators, had said it wanted to offer a more “journalistic product,” but the speaker denied their request to place and operate more cameras.</p> <p>This video is from C-SPAN, broadcast Dec. 21, 2011.</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV71OKdEqRI" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV71OKdEqRI</a></p> http://gratewire.com/topic/congress-accused-of-insider-trading-says-law-does-not-apply-to-them#post-86953 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:21:36 +0000 Sgt Joe Friday 86953@http://gratewire.com/ <p>Hey conservatives! This "STOCK Act" addresses what is a bi-partisan problem at the top levels of government. Why don't you all read the article Hoodie posted and then do whatever ancillary research you wish . . . and than, instead of waiting for Rush, Hannity, O'Reilly, Beck and Malkin to tell you what your opinion will be . . . form one on your own . . . and jump into this thread and share it with us. I really hope that we will all find common ground for once.</p> <p>BTW, I'm all for either the House or Senate version of the STOCK Act.</p> http://gratewire.com/topic/congress-accused-of-insider-trading-says-law-does-not-apply-to-them#post-86951 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:00:18 +0000 Hoodie 86951@http://gratewire.com/ <p>Pelosi, Boehner, and others are being accused of insider trading, but their lawyers say that because they are not sworn to secrecy in the same way a corporate employee is, the rules do not apply to them.</p> <p><a href="http://money.cnn.com/2011/12/07/news/congress_insider_trading/index.htm?hpt=hp_t2" rel="nofollow">http://money.cnn.com/2011/12/07/news/congress_insider_trading/index.htm?hpt=hp_t2</a></p> http://gratewire.com/topic/progressives-clash-with-boehner-over-the-99-video#post-83232 Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:18:54 +0000 Beach Baby 83232@http://gratewire.com/ <p>Oh me too.  I like what they said.  I just want them to act - to have a plan - to publish it vociferously.</p> http://gratewire.com/topic/progressives-clash-with-boehner-over-the-99-video#post-83230 Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:51:47 +0000 Checker 83230@http://gratewire.com/ <p>BB,</p> <p>Interesting, you could be right, but there have been many petitions that have been hand delivered to various politicians at their offices that we don't see or hear about, so this could be just another petition delivered that they decided, this time, to be on camera.  Who knows, still like the idea and what they said.</p> http://gratewire.com/topic/progressives-clash-with-boehner-over-the-99-video#post-83228 Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:54:06 +0000 Beach Baby 83228@http://gratewire.com/ <p>My only problem with all these politicians is that they would not come together and speak from a position of power or with one voice until the OWS movement gave them a backbone.  </p> http://gratewire.com/topic/progressives-clash-with-boehner-over-the-99-video#post-83224 Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:39:23 +0000 Checker 83224@http://gratewire.com/ <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_nRhwGQWfI" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_nRhwGQWfI</a></p> http://gratewire.com/topic/how-dummies-sell-their-boehner#post-70294 Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:10:06 +0000 Checker 70294@http://gratewire.com/ <p>MB,</p> <p>Yeah me too!</p> http://gratewire.com/topic/how-dummies-sell-their-boehner#post-70291 Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:05:10 +0000 Monkey Boy 70291@http://gratewire.com/ <p>Excellent, Checker.  I love this series.</p> http://gratewire.com/topic/how-dummies-sell-their-boehner#post-70259 Wed, 10 Aug 2011 12:24:54 +0000 Checker 70259@http://gratewire.com/ <p>B</p> http://gratewire.com/topic/how-dummies-sell-their-boehner#post-70102 Tue, 09 Aug 2011 13:20:25 +0000 Checker 70102@http://gratewire.com/ <p>B</p> http://gratewire.com/topic/how-dummies-sell-their-boehner#post-70086 Tue, 09 Aug 2011 13:00:07 +0000 Checker 70086@http://gratewire.com/ <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb-Bpn5O-e0&amp;feature=player_detailpage" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb-Bpn5O-e0&amp;feature=player_detailpage</a></p> <p> </p> http://gratewire.com/topic/dow-disaster-no-confidence#post-69804 Sun, 07 Aug 2011 09:54:10 +0000 George 69804@http://gratewire.com/ <p>Boehner for President!</p> http://gratewire.com/topic/dow-disaster-no-confidence#post-69483 Fri, 05 Aug 2011 00:05:03 +0000 Beach Baby 69483@http://gratewire.com/ <p> JTF - what a ridiculous statement. Obama is not only focused on being a birthday boy.  Obama has taken on one of the worst disasters ever to befall America - but he also has to deal constantly with half the country who literally "hate" him and will do anything to take him down.</p> <p>Believe me - we all know why you hate him - and it is a crying shame that this frightie hate is doing so much to harm the country as a whole.</p> http://gratewire.com/topic/dow-disaster-no-confidence#post-69412 Thu, 04 Aug 2011 18:46:35 +0000 jst-the-fax1 69412@http://gratewire.com/ <p>I wonder if an adult dem will now come out and challenge barry in a primary, as all this guy is interested in, is his being the birthday boy???  While the country burns...barry parties. What a putz this POS is!!!</p> http://gratewire.com/topic/dow-disaster-no-confidence#post-69411 Thu, 04 Aug 2011 18:22:40 +0000 Checker 69411@http://gratewire.com/ <p>It sure is a disaster, but no surprise for me!!!</p> http://gratewire.com/topic/dow-disaster-no-confidence#post-69408 Thu, 04 Aug 2011 17:53:36 +0000 Beach Baby 69408@http://gratewire.com/ <p>Wrong Stubborn.  The markets are upset because they see a slow down in the economy and the government is doing nothing to stimulate the economy.  Just cuts which will do nothing but slow the economy further.</p> http://gratewire.com/topic/dow-disaster-no-confidence#post-69404 Thu, 04 Aug 2011 17:42:37 +0000 stubborn bubble 69404@http://gratewire.com/ <p>Those article are hilarious. The markets are upset because we did not get any real cuts...</p> http://gratewire.com/topic/dow-disaster-no-confidence#post-69403 Thu, 04 Aug 2011 17:35:38 +0000 Beach Baby 69403@http://gratewire.com/ <p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/04/dow-jones-industrial-closes-down-513-points_n_918796.html#comments" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/04/dow-jones-industrial-closes-down-513-points_n_918796.html#comments</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/04/dow-jones-industrial-closes-down-513-points_n_918796.html#comments" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"></a>Over the weekend, lawmakers in Washington struck a deal that suggested help would not be on the way. Instead of renewing economic stimulus programs, the debt ceiling deal enacted large spending cuts over the next decade, a program that many experts say could threaten economic progress.</p> http://gratewire.com/topic/dow-disaster-no-confidence#post-69389 Thu, 04 Aug 2011 17:03:41 +0000 Beach Baby 69389@http://gratewire.com/ <p>Worst day since October 2008!  Boehner your political play - failed!</p> <p>Where are Bush and Paulsen to beg for a $700 billion bailout from congress?</p> <p><a href="http://money.cnn.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://money.cnn.com/</a><br /> <img alt="Worst day since financial crisis" src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/2011/08/04/markets/markets_newyork/chart-dow-1day-400.portrait.gif" /></p> http://gratewire.com/topic/its-all-cuts-obama-surrenders#post-68756 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 16:57:54 +0000 George 68756@http://gratewire.com/ <p>DITTO</p> http://gratewire.com/topic/its-all-cuts-obama-surrenders#post-68740 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 13:22:16 +0000 stubborn bubble 68740@http://gratewire.com/ <p>Obama won a Nobel Prize as an affirmative action deal... </p> http://gratewire.com/topic/its-all-cuts-obama-surrenders#post-68736 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 12:59:19 +0000 Checker 68736@http://gratewire.com/ <p>The U.S. national debt originated with the <a href="http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/American_Revolution.aspx" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">American Revolution</a> and as of 2004 amounted to more than $7.4 trillion. President Ronald <a href="http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Reagan-R.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Reagan</a><br /> made the debt a campaign issue in his successful presidential run<br /> (1980), but the national debt nearly tripled during his presidency. By<br /> the late 1990s, however, a federal budget surplus allowed President Bill<br /> <a href="http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-ClintonB.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Clinton</a><br /> to start paying down the debt—the first time this action had been<br /> taken since 1972. In 1998, Clinton presented the first balanced federal<br /> budget (with no annual deficit) since 1969. By 2002, however, the large<br /> tax cuts enacted under President G. W. <a href="http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-BushGWlkr.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Bush</a><br /> , combined with the effects of an economic slowdown and increased<br /> expenditures on national security following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks<br /> on the <a href="http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/United_States.aspx" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">United States</a> and the U.S. invasion of <a href="http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Iraq.aspx" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Iraq</a>, led to new deficits and an increase in the national debt.</p> <p>PERIOD.....END OF STORY!</p> <p> </p> http://gratewire.com/topic/its-all-cuts-obama-surrenders#post-68711 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 10:51:39 +0000 Beach Baby 68711@http://gratewire.com/ <p>bump</p> http://gratewire.com/topic/its-all-cuts-obama-surrenders#post-68701 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 10:10:21 +0000 Beach Baby 68701@http://gratewire.com/ <p>Well so far this morning - the US market is giving this plan the finger.</p> http://gratewire.com/topic/its-all-cuts-obama-surrenders#post-68696 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 08:42:22 +0000 Beach Baby 68696@http://gratewire.com/ <p>Peace prize Grumpy - Obama won the Nobel peace prize.  Krugman won for Economics.   Big difference. Paul Krugman is also the Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University.</p> <p>And Grumpy - Paul Krugman is an op ed columnist for the NY Times - he doesn't run the paper.  So, if you have issues with how it is run - you need to take it up with them.  </p> http://gratewire.com/topic/its-all-cuts-obama-surrenders#post-68694 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 08:24:43 +0000 grumpyone 68694@http://gratewire.com/ <p>Obama was a Nobel prize winner too,before he even did anything.....The Nobel prize is a joke,as you can see who it has been awarded to....Krugman is and has been socialist douchbag with little if anything to say of any importance......The NYT is near insolvency thanks to the likes of Krugman and the rest of their left wing douchbags.....Journalism at it's lowest level....But then you would fit right in there,wouldn't you,little dark kitten....</p> http://gratewire.com/topic/its-all-cuts-obama-surrenders#post-68679 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 07:21:55 +0000 Black Lion 68679@http://gratewire.com/ <p>Krugman is right.  Who is the righties economic advisor, Scrooge McDuck?  I love how the right attempts to discredit Krugman, a Nobel Prize winner in economics and one of the smartest minds around, by calling him a socialist...really?  Is that all you have?  Obama might not have received his tax increases, but he was able to push any vote for this past 2012 and cut defense, which is a GOP sacred cow...he got enough to make it tough for the tea baggers to vote for it...Bachmann already said she would not...This shows that the extreme right wants the US to default so they can blame Obama....Now if default happens then the GOP will get all the blame....Which is why Boehner and McConnell are pushing this plan....</p> http://gratewire.com/topic/its-all-cuts-obama-surrenders#post-68677 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 07:14:02 +0000 Beach Baby 68677@http://gratewire.com/ <p>Grumpy - it is not just this administration.  This has been ongoing for a long time.  Clinton was the last President that really made an effort to cut the deficit - and even give us a chance to pay down our debt or at least get the ratio under control.</p> <p> </p> <p>Reagan and Daddy Bush were as bad as Jr.  Reagan raising the debt by 89% under his Presidency and Daddy Bush 65%.  Whereas Clinton kept it to 36% and balanced the budget.</p> <p>Bush Jr. on the other hand was an absolute disaster.  Spending like crazy, cutting revenues, raised the debt 89% - most of which was not required - but his need to create a false sense of security economically so people wouldn't bitch about his nasty little war in Iraq.  </p> <p>Now we are paying the piper - so don't just blame Obama.  Much of the Obama spending has been to keep the disastrous economy he inherited from Bush Jr. afloat </p> http://gratewire.com/topic/its-all-cuts-obama-surrenders#post-68676 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 06:25:31 +0000 grumpyone 68676@http://gratewire.com/ <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivmL-lXNy64&amp;feature=email" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivmL-lXNy64&amp;feature=email</a></p>