He didn't used to be.
Yep.
Kind of shows that having a liberal in the White House can show a whole different side of someone
He didn't used to be.
Pork barreling is outrageous. ...
Take a look at what McConnell got in Kentucky...things start to crystallize a bit. Why isn't his ugly mug front and centre?
The Olmsted Locks and Dam project, spanning the Ohio River between Olmsted, Ill., and Paducah, Ky., is no "bridge to nowhere," the notorious Alaska earmark that launched the drive in 2005 to end earmarks. The dam replacement project aims to ease a bottleneck for barges about 17 miles upstream of the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. The Army Corps of Engineers calls the site "the busiest stretch of river in America's inland waterways."
When Congress first authorized the project in 1988, the estimate for completion was $775 million. By FY 2011, costs had soared to more than $1.4 billion, and the Army Corps says it will need authorization to spend up to $2.9 billion to finish the work. Despite delays and cost overruns, the project retained bipartisan support. The proposed increase was included in President Obama’s FY 2014 budget and authorized by both Senate and House committees.
It's not clear whether Senate leaders expected the blowback they're getting on this project. Accounts from aides, who will not be quoted publicly, differ on this point. What is clear is that Senate leaders, on both sides of the aisle, quickly rallied to its defense.
Both McConnell and Senate majority leader Harry Reid denied that the project was an earmark or that McConnell had requested it. Sen. Lamar Alexander (R) of Tennessee, the top Republican on the Senate Energy and Water Development subcommittee, said in a statement that he and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D) of California, who chairs the panel, had requested the project and that it would save taxpayer dollars.
“According to the Army Corps of Engineers, $160 million taxpayer dollars will be wasted because of canceled contracts if this language is not included,” Senator Alexander said, in a statement.
It looks like nbcrusader is on one hell of a trolling tirade and is lost in his own world.
Let's keep the personal commentary out of this.
Damn that Obama causing the global financial recession of 2008.
I don't live in California.
The rest of your comment isn't even analogous to the current situation
No, the Left threatens California with economic calamity by its expansion of government and its pension programs, oppressive business regulation, an open border policy and confiscatory tax rates. But we have a thread on that."the Left" didn't throw an epic hissy fit, grind the government to a halt and threaten California with economic calamity if they didn't get their way.
He didn't used to be.
He didn't used to be.
Yep.
Kind of shows that having aliberalblack in the White House can show a whole different side of someone
I believe that Indy is making fun of the argument that Republicans have such vitriol against the President because of his race (an argument that, I must admit, has always struck me as questionable).
I believe that Indy is making fun of the argument that Republicans have such vitriol against the President because of his race (an argument that, I must admit, has always struck me as questionable).
I think that many Tea Party Republicans have such vitriol against the president because their constituents have such vitriol against the president because of his race.
Given that Cruz and Palin recently spoke at an organized rally where a featured speaker called on Obama to "put down the Koran," the evidence is ample.
The Koran thing is annoying. But the vitriol, I think, has a lot to do with a sense of malaise that is prevalent throughout the country at the moment, and that quite possibly totally transcends the president's (any president's) ability to help or hurt.
The Koran thing is annoying. But the vitriol, I think, has a lot to do with a sense of malaise that is prevalent throughout the country at the moment, and that quite possibly totally transcends the president's (any president's) ability to help or hurt.
Fixed. I didn't know I was a raving racist until 5 years ago either.
Tainting the tea party movement with the charge of racism is proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats. There is no evidence that tea party adherents are any more racist than other Republicans, and indeed many other Americans. But getting them to spend their time purging their ranks and having candidates distance themselves should help Democrats win in November. Having one’s opponent rebut charges of racism is far better than discussing joblessness.
Before the 2010 congressional elections, Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) and his fellow GOPers developed and implemented a simple campaign strategy: say "where are the jobs?" over and over and over.
And we'll hear it when a female runs for the office from the dem side (Hillary)
Yes. Absolutely. It's just politics.
I don't think INDY is a racist. But I do think racialized economic resentment is a part of his (and the tea party's) irrational despising of a rather centrist, somewhat bland president
I'm 22 and angry and cynical, but there are a lot of arguments on the right that I find have no merit whatsoever. I find that many political issues aren't simply about differences in opinion, but are actually a right vs. wrong issue, especially on the social side. And it seems like every year that those social issues creep further and further into the economic issues and make me feel like even more issues are becoming about right vs. wrong rather than differences of opinion.Are there legitimate ways to discuss the substantial ideological differences between the Left and the Right without resorting to cheap, easy, reductionist perspectives?
This seems to me to be an entirely reasonable, debatable, rational point. Was the stimulus worth it? That we can discuss. (And much more useful than big dumb charts on debt).A far more sensible and rational analysis. It seems that everyone at least knows someone who is unemployed or underemployed. All the promise of "shovel ready projects" to create jobs with the billions spent on stimulus rang largely untrue. The government keeps spending money, but the public seems to be getting far less for their money.
There are some very smart men who make lots of money by carefully crafting and designing language intended to play upon deep, historical, race-based fears and resentments.
To point this out is hardly cheap or reductionist.
What's reductionist is when someone points this out, and the response is "you're wrong because I'm not a racist."
Like, I know. You're not a racist. Good for you. Get over yourself. No one is saying "if you disagree with Obama you hate black people." In fact, to pretend that is what is being said is what is cheap and reductionist.
What we are talking about, and what is happening, and there is ample evidence, is that race is unquestionably wielded as a political tool to motivate certain segments of the population.