Only 46 Months To Go...........

God willing, President Barack Obama will be in office only 46 more months.

And even better, the last two of those months would be after the 2012 election so it is really only 44 months effectively.

And if the Republicans can make large gains in the 2010 midterm elections, then they might be able to blunt most Obama plans and policies effectively for the following two years.

So it is possible that Obama has only 20 more months of effective influence as president.

Assuming the GOP can come up with a viable candidate of course.

One can hope.

I don't think the GOP would really do much different from Obama is doing.

Ah yes, the four-year-old "They started it!" defence.

The Democrats sure as hell are keeping the ball rolling further into socialist territory.

What "defense"? I don't agree with Obama's economic policies. I'm simply pointing out that Republicans would do much the same (disagreable) thing.

I was referring to Dan's "Given that they started the process . . ."

And I certainly hope that this whole business dispels the notion that only Republicans are into corporate welfare.

Republicans did the same. They have little room to really argue, and those that do so can only object after first accepting their own role in the seeds of Obama's policies.

Well, the Maya say the world is ending in 2012, and not a moment too soon either. I never thought I'd be rooting for doomsday.

There was such strong flashback after Bush's first bailout that republican congressmen and senators would be unlikely to vote for another.

Still, they started it. And it was a laissez faire attitude that allowed corruption and carelessness of historic proportions to exist and grow. As godawful a precedent (corporate bailouts) as it is, I think doing nothing would have been worse.

But the country sorely needs infrastructure investment; this is where the focus of the money should be and jobs would be created directly and created here instead of relieving rich assholes' bank balances so they can invest in some other ponzi scheme.

That's why I'm done voting for political parties. I write people in. The Republicans and the Democrats will collectively seal the end of democracy in America one day. Possibly quite sooner than later, considering everybody's upset about what a shit ass job they've been doing over the past couple decades.

As much as I hated Bush's bank bailout, at least it wasn't for doorbell installers. It wasn't a slush fund for "healthcare reform" or "political organizers" who rig elections. It attacked the problem. Obama's pork plan has all of the liabilities of Bush's strategy but none of the benefits. And his senior men have been on record admitting this.

I'm with you on health care but the fund for political organizers who rig elections escapes me. Can you provide a reference?

From it springs forth the mighty oak.

"mighty oak"? Oaks are kinda nice. A better metaphor would have been "weeds of corruption."

Be that as it may, how exactly does government subsidized health insurance grow "political organizers who rig elections"?

ACORN eligible for billions from stimulus plan

I'll concede that the only place I found comment on this was in conservative blogs, but I guess this is the excerpt from the bill that applies:

So now we are actively rooting against our president? I thought the Republicans told us that was unpatriotic.

The main difference between 2010 and 1994 is that we don't have a Newt. Love him or hate him, he rallied together a united party that had a clear and concise opposition message to what Clinton was doing. The banking scandal didn't hurt our chances in 94 either.

We lack that clear direction right now. In the Senate, it doesn't matter what our leadership is like, Specter Snow and Collins make the party look like spend a lot weenies. In the house, Boehner and Cantor don't have the charisma to get enough name recognition.

The party is just together right now. We have the RINOs and the conservatives, we have the intellectuals vs the Palin is God and anyone who reads a newspaper other than "truth's treasure trove" is in cahoots with the enemy.

No it will take a major fuck up on the part of the dems for us to have any hope of winning back seats, much less getting a majority back. Granted they are dems, so it may not be that far off, but from what I've seen, the status quo isn't going to change for a while.

You are retarded.

I like how they blow restoration of blighted neighborhoods (abandoned and foreclosed homes) into "Billions for Acorn." Community stabilization is not about funding political groups.

Restoration of blighted neighborhoods is exactly what this should be about.

I award you the tinfoil hat award for Sunday 3/29.

OBAMA 2012

...I never put that together...

Obama's last year in office=2012

the last year of the world=2012

well...according to the
If A=B and B=C, then A=C standard...

Obama=the end of the world.

Obama's term ends in 2013...so we have to assume whomever is elected in 2012 will cause the world to collapse before its even sworn in.

The Bush stimulus and bailout plans were rushed through in the last six months of his administration in a desperate attempt to stave off Republican election losses in November of 2008.

I doubt that any Republican admin. would bother with something like this in the first year of their administration.

No they didn't.

Herbert Hoover disagrees!