FROM 2012 INTO 2013 POLITICS THREAD

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

You suck!

I'll vote for Johnson if you vote for Romney.

 

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

Disgraceful. Even for a sock puppet.

 

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

David Stern says shut up.

 

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You'd be right. But Gooch Man won't let the facts get in the way of an obscene rant.

 

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I'm opposed to the kind of cuts to safety net programs he advocates and the 23 percent not-so-fair tax on all goods and services, including groceries, that would replace corporate and income taxes.

We can certainly talk about marijuana legalization, though.

 

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

Then Obama probably should have been smart enough to look at the landscape and not make such grandiose promises such as cutting the deficit in half.

 

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

Sometimes that's all you got.

 

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Republicans getting nervous about turnout in Florida.

http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/region_c_palm_beach_county/west_palm_beach/local-gop-memo-dems-cleaning-our-clock

 

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

Is it fair to wonder if we'd be getting as much doubling down on FEMA-bashing from the Romney campaign as we are (not is performance, but its existence) if, say, the states hit were Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama? Or, even better, Florida, North Carolina, Nevada, Colorado, and Ohio, some sort of storm that kind of hopped from swing state to swing state?

 

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

I've liked Johnson since reading a profile of him in Outside a couple of years ago. I never understood why he was only allowed in a couple of debates.

 

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Actually, the way it turns out is that McCain was right when he said "the fundamentals of our economy are strong." I laugh when I hear democrats speak out of both sides of their mouths. They say that there have been so many consecutive months of job growth and so many consecutive quarters of growth (albeit small) in the GDP while also claiming that it was the worst economy since the Great Depression. There was a banking crisis, but in the end it was not anywhere near a huge recession. It was hyped to be one so that Dems could claim Obama saved us, but in reality he did no such thing.

We were told that 2010 was going to be "Recovery Summer." Then we were told the same thing again in 2011 and 2012. Instead, we got almost nothing. In reality, we got the slowest and smallest recovery from a recession we've ever had. And because the recovery has been so tiny thanks to anti-business policies from this administration, millions of people have remained unemployed.

We bottomed out in the third and fourth quarters of 2008 (thanks to Fannie and Freddie and all those Dem cronies who made millions driving them into the ground) and improved greatly from there in the first quarter of 2009 before any of Obama's policies ever had a chance to take effect.

http://www.statista.com/statistics/188185/percent-chance-from-preceding-period-in-real-gdp-in-the-us/

In the end, we had two awful quarters and were improving greatly by the time Obama took office.The stimulus had nothing to do with the improvements, and in the end has been the reason we've now had four straight years of deficits between $1trillion and $1.5 trillion. And the deficits and the debt are now our biggest problems -- far worse than a recession that barely lasted a year.

 

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

What, exactly, were Obama's anti-business policies?