The Media Whiffs on McCain, Quayle, Palin, Murkowski, and Rubio

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Democrats passed it.
Guess who breaks it on every bill they pass?
The Democrats, who else! Hyporites with Reid and Pelosi the posterchildren!

Fed Up of IN 6:34PM August 31, 2010

9.91% not 99.1%

Bill Hedges of MO 4:27PM August 26, 2010

"We have Republicans who will vote to extend tax cuts for the wealthy but will vote against the unemployed receiving any assistance."
Tax cuts to rich increase government revenue:
“According to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the Bush tax cuts actually shifted the total tax burden farther toward the rich so that in 2000-2004, total income tax paid by the top 40% of income-earners grew by 4.6% to 99.1% of the total.”
“This shift may have occurred because as the wealthy (who are arguably the most industrious and productive citizens) are better-incentivized to be industrious and productive through lower taxes, they create higher incomes for themselves and end up paying more taxes. The Bush tax cuts did shift the tax burden, but not in the direction most liberals think.”
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/03/lying_about_bushs_tax_cuts.html
Though most Americans do not pay federal taxes and we have great give away programs for the poorer among us you begrudge rich tax cut. Those who pay for that and do the hiring.
How costly your beliefs are. Considering rich invest thus pay more tax when his tax rates are dropped.
Concerning the unemployment extension. Democrats passed 'pay as you go'. With extension in unemployment way to pay for it must be found. Once way was found extension was passed.
That Ann is not " Republicans who will vote to extend tax cuts for the wealthy but will vote against the unemployed receiving any assistance---eventhough they are all out of a job due to no fault of their own but due to the Republicans greed and hunger for power and money." As I explained.
Look to Bill Clinton's housing program for the mess we are in. The housing collapse and bad loan paper sold to Wall Street.

Bill Hedges of MO 3:19PM August 26, 2010

That is what the conservative party and the GOP (Greedy Old Party) is good at. As far as the Bushes & Quayles prefer to let voters select them....well, that is funny if it was not sad and untrue. They BUY their votes and highly market their candidates while deceiving their constituents, distorting the facts and distracting the voters with assinine incidents to cover up their incompetence. All we need to do is look back at the Bush years. Ben Quayles's stupid remark that Obama is the worst president is an attempt to distort and deceive the voters since we all know we are in this financial mess due to the Republicans incompetence and corrupt administration. President Obama INHERITED the mess the Republicans left and we are all paying the price for their stupidity and incompetence. We are seeing the legacy left by the former administration....millions left with no jobs or low paying jobs, no pensions, no savings, no 401ks, families left homeless due to the massive foreclosure rates, banks will not lend because the Republicans choose to subsidize Wall Street and the banks instead of aiding Main Street America. We have Republicans who will vote to extend tax cuts for the wealthy but will vote against the unemployed receiving any assistance---eventhough they are all out of a job due to no fault of their own but due to the Republicans greed and hunger for power and money. Remember the old saying....you may fool some of the people some of the time....but you can't fool all the people all of the time. As far as Palin the media should drop her from the new all she has to sell is negativity and devisiveness....typical of all conservative Republicans...

Ann Geary of IA 1:40PM August 26, 2010

This election cycle has much more in common with the issues that made the Whig party a historical curiosity by 1860.
!40 years ago Americans were grappling with the Kansas Nebraska Act which was dividing the nation. To effect reconciliation between Americans on each side of the issue, Buchanan--considered the political Solomon of his generation--was elected to effect reconciliation but only escalated America's slide into civil war.
Buchanan had the Kansas-Nebraska Act to solve; Obama his self-imposed miscarried healthcare and economic challenges.
Buchanan's congressional pitbull was Stephen Douglas; Obama has Pelosi and Emanuel.
It may very well be with 21st-century democrats as it was with the Democratic party of the 1850's that became a house divided after a man was elected who utterly failed to recognize and act in concert with the prevailing zeitgeist of the times.
Obama, like Buchanan, had little more in his arsenal of leadership tactics than a fundamental knowledge of congressional doctrines which he believed he could
force feed political opponents who did not accept his constitutional arguments. (What better example of this naivete than his citing the constitutional right of a Mosque to be at built at Ground Zero despite the antagonism of the vast majority
to the project?)
As, too, with Buchanon, Obama is seemingly indifferent to the fact that he is causing factionalism within his own ranks that is resulting in seismic shifts is the
realignment of America's two party system--a dynamic which is eerily similar to that which put Abraham Lincoln in the White House thereby ending what had been decades of the democratic parties preeminent role in American politics.

Viper 1 of NY 6:58PM August 25, 2010