Unemployment Numbers Raise Stakes for Debt Ceiling Summit

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Where's the Republican jobs bills?
Non-existent!
We know the results of Bush's and Republican Policies, the result is the largest loss of jobs since the great depression.
Now to raise the debt limit Republicans want to cut $6 trillion in cuts over the next 10 years but they also want to add $10 trillion in debt to implement Paul Ryan's Kill Medicare budget which also would make make Bush's tax cuts for the rich permanent.
Trillions in cuts means more layoffs and higher unemployment.
Republicans are getting rid of jobs and getting rid of your benefits.
The media whitewash against Obama is also attack on regular folk who are going to be paying for Paris Hilton's tax cuts for a long time if the Republicans get their way. Poor Paris Hilton, the GOP is rescuing her from ever having to pay a nickel in taxes ever again. Boo hoo!

Joe of IN 3:34PM July 15, 2011

The debt ceiling can be negotiated on. It takes twoo sides to part ways with political gain and put the best interest of all Americans forward. The debt ceiling was constantly being raised before Obama got into office, what is the difference now. Oh,,there is an elephant in the room. In the real world, there is a such thing as good and bad debt. Learn about it, before posting that some one is destroying a country single handedly on his own. Sounds like a bunch of ignorant and uneducated people that don't know anything. Get the facts and learn about the government's past, present and future. Nothing like the pacified American Idiots, that believe anything they hear. This country is not the greatest. It has a dark past that still persists in the present.

Annie of MO 2:11PM July 13, 2011

Oh, stop harshing on Obama. It's not like he didn't SAY this is what he wanted to do during the campaign - America got the president it deserves.
Of course he's destroying the country. Heck, I thought that's what the electorate wanted - why else would they have voted for him?

Rich of CO 7:35PM July 12, 2011

Obama has conveniently forgotten all of his tax increases that are include in Obamacare that will start killing the US taxpayer in 2013 and subsequent years.
Just look at the Opinion page in July 11 Wall Street Journal for the exhaustive list.
And he wants to add another $trillion in the debt ceiling deal!!!

Citizen of WI 12:41PM July 12, 2011

Keep on evading - you have it at almost an art.
Try actually linking to verifiable facts and figures (like the ones I used for the impact of Bushes tax cuts that you haven't responded to) - quoting someone else's opinions only shows just how weak your position is.
Apparently also, you are incapable of discerning the difference between defending someone against scurrilous attacks, and total support of that person in all that he/she has done. Until you actually are able to distinguish between those two actions, you are doomed to a life of failure.

junior of DC 11:37AM July 12, 2011

hey monotonous why do you ignore the fact that sararh's popularity in alaska has sunk to the point wear she couldn;t be elected to any state office ?

bruce b of NV 10:41AM July 12, 2011

"Obama Mustn't Give Away the Store in Debt Ceiling Deal"

Bill Hedges of MO 5:37AM July 12, 2011

as to monotonous comment about palin;s approval rating as governor,he is correct at one point she did have an 80% apporval rating.that was before she became sarah ( half term )palin.since that high point her favorable rating is some where around 40%.she couldn;t even push that tea party wacko,joe smith,over the finish line in the u.s. senate race.
as to the current g.o.p. presidential field,aside from huntsman and romney i cann;t remember a bigger group of social misfits and crackpots.led by people like michele bachmann and that religious zealot rick santorum.

bruce b of NV 5:12AM July 12, 2011

1. Just so happens I read what the Republican Candidate said about that. Read the liberal characterization of her statement too. I agree with what she said. What don’t you quote her and TRY to make me look bad.
2. "If I cut and paste some stuff that someone else wrote, then that stuff, man, that's TRUE!!".........
Is that a direct quote from me. Give article and time. That is YOUR INTERPRETATION. brucetee said Congress fired Newt. I quoted source Newt was not. He was cleared. Later, stepped down. brucetee says Tax cuts cost for rich cost government monies. I quoted CBO that Bush tax cuts for rich does not, but actual increased government revenue.
Proper use of link is to provide evidence to support my point. You look like a jerk writing that. I don't use links to provide opinion, is for data. You read economic books with no footnotes, links. brucetee misquoted ex economics for Reagan. Of course he did not give link. I checked it out and brucetee left out the story. I DID provide source. Sources make you and brucetee look bad. I won't stop using. Even barry used Heritage as source, though obama misquoted and had to retract.
3. “1. Blame Obama”
Who did barry blame ?
4. “3. Have to pander to Palin and a bunch of losers who's best campaign line is: "Well no, I don't know what I'm doing”.
We did well Nov. 2, 2010. She had 90‘s approval rating in AK. She cleaned up their legislator, re-negotiate oil royalties and gave money to the people. Don’t sound like “loser to me”.
5. “Obama!" What a failure”. This IS___ taken out of your context.
barry was spending us out of recession. Didn’t work. He outspent 8 years of Bush in less than 2 years. We were brought in to STOP.
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You can ALWAY try to prove my sources wrong...

Bill Hedges of MO 12:33AM July 12, 2011

(Hmmm.....based on the logic of this angry white male...who says "If I cut and paste some stuff that someone else wrote, then that stuff, man, that's TRUE!!".........here you go:
HERE's some stuff that some guy wrote that I agree with, and that means that it's the TRUTH:
CUT AND PASTED from this LINK:
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/peter-roff/2011/07/06/obamas-healthcare-economic-policy-to-make-slaves-of-our-children/comments
"PALIN, Please just get it over with and announce you are not running for President. Your fans might have a few coins left in their pocket? Right!! Not yet!!! "Let's wait a bit." The GOP has fallen on hard times when the best it can do is 1. Blame Obama, 2. Blame Obama, 3. Have to pander to Palin and a bunch of losers who's best campaign line is: "Well no, I don't know what I'm doing. But, ________ is better than Obama!" What a failure. "
THERE. There you go. Palin is an exploiting hack and today's GOP is a failure.
Supported by LINK and CUT AND PASTE.....and thus, TRUE.

Zachary from Cincy of OH 11:07PM July 11, 2011