You're such a r*****. This is Bush's deal and it always has been, so turn off FOX news for a second and educate yourself. The huge deficit was there long before Obama took office and he's done everything his economic advisers has advised him to do, but the damage caused by Bush was too extensive. Unemployment was skyrocketing straight up and passed 8% before Obama had even settled in. It was on a 20+month increase with no sign of it leveling off. But that was Obama's fault right? The scare tactics of "socialism," funded by the fear-mongers on the Right, have resonated with ignorant Americans everywhere it seems. It is the same tactic used by idiots like Era Taft Benson who opposed the Civil Rights movement, calling in an unconstitutional encroachment of government.
And because we're a country of racists and idiots who demand instantaneous change only when the President is Democrat, black, or both, you refuse to understand the problem on its own terms and choose to use the darky as the scape goat and regurgitate the idiotic talking points, like the script Paul Rand just ripped off from some Right Wing think tank. And yes, I've seen the signs at the tea parties, up close and personal. Never seen so many pissed off white racists in all my life. The Tea Party is at least 97% white. And that is a fair representation of "we the people"?? The Tea Party was formed and funded by a few Right Wing billionaires just weeks after Obama took office. Coincidence? It took off before Obama had the chance to do anything wrong, but they already knew what they were going to blame him for long before he stepped foot in office. The beauty of the deception is that it worked. They actually have millions of ignorant Americans thinking Obama is to blame for our current plight. That his failed attempt to offer government health insurance was the reason Banks decided to keep the bail out money and not give it back to the taxpayers in the form of loans. If Obama tried to force the banks to do what they said they'd do, the Right was trying to use this as an example of a socialistic dictator trying to use government to coerce private enterprise. What a bunch of idiots.
But what I love is how every Right winger and their dog claims to be "Constitutional Conservatives" now, even when half of them couldn't tell me what the first amendment says, including that dim-wit Christine O'Donnell. The irony is that most of these folks claim to know the constitution and the Bible. There is nothing Christian about the Right anymore, and people like bcspace illustrate why. His religion is not Mormonism anymore, it is loyalty to the Right Wing propaganda machine. You used to hear of people claiming a fellow brother or sister wasn't 100% republican or democrat, but nowadays it has flipped with the bigots. Nowadays you hear them talking about how a fellow brother or sister isn't a good Christian or Mormon, or whatever, simply because they do not vote the same way. Unbelievable.
But what I love is how every Right winger and their dog claims to be "Constitutional Conservatives" now, even when half of them couldn't tell me what the first amendment says
Back in 2005, the ACLU asserted that
It is probably no accident that freedom of speech is the first freedom mentioned in the First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
(since modified after criticsm from conservatives - I viewed its web site before the change)
Note the ellipsis. It's there for the usual reason: to indicate an omission. Here's the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, with the omitted words highlighted:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
I doubt you'd see an ACLU fact sheet declaring it "no accident" that free exercise of religion is the first freedom mentioned in the First Amendment, but it's rather amazing that they go so far as to excise it entirely to promote free speech to the exalted (and legally meaningless) primary position.
Seems that the ACLU's copy of the bill of rights is down to 8.5 amendments from 9. They've already pretended that the freedom to keep and bear arms doesn't exist, and now they're making it explicit that they deny the right to freely worship.
It very much looks like that the elections of 2010 were a good thing for the Country economic wise. During the November 2010 elections when the Democrats controlled the House of Representatives, the unemployment rate for the Nation was as high as 9.8%. Now that the Republicans have controlled the House of Representatives for quite a while, the unemployment rate for the Nation is down to 8.5%.
Brackite wrote:It very much looks like that the elections of 2010 were a good thing for the Country economic wise. During the November 2010 elections when the Democrats controlled the House of Representatives, the unemployment rate for the Nation was as high as 9.8%. Now that the Republicans have controlled the House of Representatives for quite a while, the unemployment rate for the Nation is down to 8.5%.