PhilsFan
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That level of detachment from reality is scary when it's essentially half the country.
Obeying the Constitution by shutting down the government over a constitutionally upheld law you don't like?
Right.
But shutting down the government and threatening global economic collapse because you can't get your way after getting clobbered in an election is.
What are you even talking about?
INDY lives in an alternate economic reality.
In the week leading up to the weekend in advance of the August 2nd deadline in 2011, the S&P 500 declined by 3.9% and was off a total of 6.8% before an agreement was signed into law. It is also worth noting that during this period, bond yields and oil price also experienced material declines.
Markets fall on stimulus remarks
By Beth Healy | GLOBE STAFF JUNE 21, 2013
The signs are all pointing to an improving economy as more people find jobs, home sales surge in some areas, and confidence rises. Yet investors are selling stocks and bonds, seemingly fixated on just one thing: How soon the Federal Reserve might stop pumping money into the market.
Stocks have fallen sharply for two straight days, pulling the Dow Jones industrial average down 560 points, or nearly 4 percent, to 14,758.32. The sell-off started when Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke suggested Wednesday that a healthier economy would prompt the central bank to start winding down its bond-buying program later this year.
The stock market’s nervous initial reaction only gained momentum Thursday, when the Dow index lost 353 points. It was the market’s worst day since November 2011, as investors worried that the economic recovery could be thrown off course if the central bank cuts back.
DOMA was "the law of the land." Why did you fight it? Citizens United is "the law of the land." Why is it still discussed here as if it is controversial?
Republicans scored at least a 60-seat gain in the House, the biggest partisan shift since the Democrats gained 75 House seats in 1948.
ObamaCare's architects reap windfall as Washington lobbyists - The Hill - covering Congress, Politics, Political Campaigns and Capitol Hill | TheHill.coma LOT of people are going to benefit from this law
ObamaCare's architects reap windfall as Washington lobbyists
By Megan R. Wilson - 08/25/13
ObamaCare has become big business for an elite network of Washington lobbyists and consultants who helped shape the law from the inside.
More than 30 former administration officials, lawmakers and congressional staffers who worked on the healthcare law have set up shop on K Street since 2010.
Major lobbying firms such as Fierce, Isakowitz & Blalock, The Glover Park Group, Alston & Bird, BGR Group and Akin Gump can all boast an Affordable Care Act insider on their lobbying roster — putting them in a prime position to land coveted clients.
“When [Vice President] Biden leaned over [during the signing of the healthcare law] and said to [President] Obama, ‘This is a big f'n deal,’ ” said Ivan Adler, a headhunter at the McCormick Group, “he was right.”
And what does the Left in your state do when a state law created by popular vote in CA is upheld by the CA Supreme Court? Do they declare Prop 8 "the law of the land"? No, no they don't. They get a federal judge to overturn it and then fail to defend their own law or citizens in front of the US Supreme Court. There's a precedent for you.
3. WW2 veterans aren’t welcome at the National Memorial, but Democrats will host a rally for illegal immigrants at the National Mall – while lecturing citizens about “respect.”
8. Democrats will call Republicans “anarchists,” “arsonists,” “terrorists,” “extremists,” “hostage-takers,” “jihadists” and “suicide bombers” if the GOP doesn’t completely capitulate, but would never dare call Islamist terrorists that.
13. The stock market doesn’t really care what Washington does, as long as the Fed keeps raining cash.
Outstanding and dead-on.
their paid vacation.
Limited government is not anarchy. Balanced budgets are not anarchy. Obeying the Constitution is not anarchy.
Last week the House passed amendments to;
1) give all Americans the same one year exemption that Obama (illegally) granted to big business.
2) to delay the medical device tax
3) a provision eliminating the Healthcare Exchange subsidies that Obama (illegally) gave to Congress, their staff and other Capital employees.
They all were ignored by the Democratic senate.
Post-election season is a time for healing, for putting aside the rancor of a long campaign and rediscovering what unites us. It has not been that way this year.
Prudence, one would think, if not generosity of spirit, should impel Democrats to be magnanimous in victory. Romney did receive about 48 percent of the vote. A little modesty among the winners would seem to be in order.
Instead, the gloating has been extravagant. Worse, liberals have gorged themselves on the same junk food they enjoyed during the campaign and cannot seem to resist under any circumstances — slandering their opponents. The smears are so casual and commonplace that we become weary of responding. But we must protest, or someone new to politics may assume that we concede the point.
Appearing on Meet the Press, documentary filmmaker Ken Burns attributed conservative unhappiness with the election to racism. “Race is always there in America,” Burns opined. “It’s always something we don’t want to talk about. Do you think we’d have a secession movement — a faddish movement — if this president wasn’t African-American? Do you think the vitriol that came out of some elements of the Tea Party would have been at the same level had this president not been African-American?”
Ken Burns is a fine filmmaker. I met him once, and found him to be engaging and amiable. It’s painful to see him descend to this kind of defamation. Some disappointed Republicans are talking secession in Texas and elsewhere. This is proof of racism? Is this the standard of evidence Burns employs for his films?
Secession talk is the overheated emotional venting of the disappointed. It is not the exclusive province of Republicans. In 2004, Jonathan Gurwitz of the Houston Chronicle reminds us, Democratic talking head Lawrence O’Donnell suggested that George W. Bush’s reelection would provoke “a serious discussion of secession over the next 20 years.” When a fellow panelist on the TV show in question asked “Are you calling for civil war?” O’Donnell replied “You can secede without firing a shot.” Bob Beckel was for kicking the southern United States out of the union that year. “Really, I think they ought to have their own confederacy.” Alec Baldwin, among others, had threatened to leave the country if Bush was reelected.
Burns’s flippant reference to the “vitriol” emanating from “some elements” in the Tea Party is nothing but an oft-repeated slur. The late Andrew Breitbart famously offered a $10,000 reward to anyone who could produce audio or video proof that the N-word was hurled at black members of Congress as they moved through a Tea Party protest on Capitol Hill. The accusation of racism was broadcast far and wide. The lack of proof — though hundreds of people had video cameras recording every moment — is the untold story. Someone as sophisticated as Ken Burns should know that the Tea Party protests were multiracial, multiethnic affairs, featuring speakers of every background. What united them was concern that the government stop spending money it does not collect.
False accusations of racism are an attempt to delegitimize those who disagree with you. Promiscuous use of the word also defangs it for actual instances of racial bias. Honest liberals should further consider that flinging the charge protects them from having to defend their ideas. It’s simultaneously ugly and lazy.
Kathleen Geier of the Washington Monthly writes that conservatives use abstractions because they are attempting to conceal positions that “a hefty chunk of the population” finds “icky.” That’s the reason, she explains, that they talk of “‘small government,’ ‘right to life,’ ‘states’ rights,’ ‘free markets,’ ‘right to work,’ ‘judicial restraint,’ ‘family values,’ etc.”
I can’t recall the last time a mainstream American politician referred to “state’s rights,” but I’m pretty sure that whoever it was, he was a Democrat. It was the code term southern Democrats used to defend Jim Crow laws. Three quarters of the nay votes on the 1964 Civil Rights Act came from Democrats. Conservatives, as Ms. Geier would know if she actually read them rather than relying on cartoon depictions, do talk of federalism. If Geier thinks the constitutional order providing for state and federal governments is “icky,” she should say so.
As for the “right to life,” isn’t that a great deal more honest than the liberals’ habit of disguising a policy of unrestricted abortion up to and including birth as “women’s reproductive health”?
Geier further confuses her readers by explaining that “judicial restraint” means “no rights for women, gays, or nonwhites.”
On reflection, I take it back. What liberals like Geier need is not humility or magnanimity. It’s basic information.
$2 billion in pork-barrel appropriations were added to the Congressional Resolution to reopen the government and raise the debt ceiling.
It looks like nbcrusader is on one hell of a trolling tirade and is lost in his own world.