Schumer Rebuts GOP on Divided Govt.

A divided Government works when you know what each party stands for. The Republican party has been hi-jacked by far right, radical neocons so a lot of Americans are just fine seeing what the Dems can do.

I’m a Democrat and I agree with John McCain that a Democratic Congress, along with a Democratic President, would be a disaster. My party has been hijacked by the far left-wing, and I want no part of it. That said, I’m no fan of the Republicans. I guess now I’m an independent. In this election, I think McCain is the lesser of two evils. Reluctantly, I’ll vote for him. The thought of a Pelosi/Reid/Obama administration is frightening to me, and to a lot of other Southerners.

how soon we forget Republicans had control of congress and white house from 2000-2006 under George Bush, and where did that get us?
McCain wasn’t whineing then

I hope Mr. Schumer enjoys the next two years. Once the public realizes they’ve been had by Congress and that the ‘change’ they getting is nothing more than the same, failed, ‘tax and spend’ Democratic policies of the past, they’ll make another change.
Hopefully, someone other than the Republicans will be the beneficiaries of the 2010 next change.

I’m voting for Barack because I want a whole bunch of free stuff, and I want other people to pay for it. I also want a house. I don’t like the one I’m living in, but I think I might like yours. Barack’s gonna redistribute some of your wealth over my way, so that’s why I’m voting for him! Obama/Biden 08!!!

Unprecedented sums of campaign money.
Unprecedented broken promises of campaign finance reform.
Unprecedented inexperience for the office.
Unprecedented ties to criminals and terrorists.
Unprecedented associations to voter fraud groups.
Unprecedented capitulation to America’s enemies.
Unprecedented arrogance.
Unprecedented lack of good judgment.
Unprecedented lurch towards a Socialist Dictatorship.
This is not the “change” America needs.
Reject Barack Obama.

“Wealth redistribution” has no place in a free democracy.
It is, however, the cornerstone of a COMMUNIST DICTATORSHIP:
“We cannot expect the Americans to jump from capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving Americans small doses of socialism until they suddenly awake to find they have Communism.”
- Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev, 1959
Stop kidding yourselves, Liberals.
Reject Barack Obama.

Anyone who thinks Barack Obama is going to give anyone a tax cut is a fool. Past performance is a good predictor of future performance. Obama believes in raising taxes, not lowering them. He has a new TV ad in Missouri. The new ad claims anyone who has a job and makes less than $200,000 will get a tax cut. (Last week it was anyone making less than $250,000, employed or not.) This guy is making it up as he goes along.

I am voting for every Democrat on the ticket. I am not leaving anyone of them out. I have had it with Republicans.

Shumer conveniently forgets the Carter years. He conveniently forgets that the 3 most prosperous decades in America (post Industrial Revolution) were the 50′s, the 80′s and the 90′s. What did all 3 have in common? Divided government.

Palin said at a rally yesterday in Poortown Pa. “Obama wants to take your wealth & give it to whomever he chooses” they all booed.
The funniest quote from Ed Rendell Gov. of Pa. yesterday. “No one in the croud had any wealth”
Any idiot knows presidents don’t sit in the oval office exchanging money
BUT AS GOVERNOR OF ALASKA – THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT SHE DID

Ironic that the Republicans are arguing that they should have veto power over any Democratic bill, but remains silent that they held Congress( with solid people like Newt Gingrich), the presidency (George Bush) and have appointed 7 of the 9 US Supreme Court Justices, 4 appointed by the Bush’s! A disingenuous argument at best!
As usually the Republicans have a real hard time with a simple thing called the truth!

Becky
Think again…Palin could very well be President. That should be enough of a reason to vote for Obama.
Did you mind the past 6 years of Republican majority in Congress with a Republican president??

I’m a PUMA Democrat. There are two overwhelming facts that are dragging down the McCain campaign. The first is Sarah Palin; independents think she is an idiot and therefore a mark on Sen. McCain’s judgement. The second is the media is creating this image on the marching orders of the Obama campaign. Did you see that CNN interview where the reporter asks Gov. Palin what she tought about, and he quotes, a prominent conservative thinks you’re stupid and corrupt, when in fact that prominent conservative said the media is making her out to be stupid and corrupt? The viewers watching the report think, “even conservatives think she’s a moron; she must be a moron!” when in fact it’s the elite media that is pushing the idea that Gov. Palin is a moron. It’s a brilliant move by the dirty Obama machine. Nothing else worked. they said she had a special needs child, therefore she should have rejected the nomination. That was sexist. They said she was just a small-town mayor and therefore unqualified for Federal office, when in fact 1) small-town mayer is one of the toughest executive civilian jobs in the world and 2) they ignore the fact that she is the sitting governor of the largest and therefore most complex state in the union. They said she was mistaken when she said the office of the Vice President was President of the Senate, when in fact 1) it is 2) that’s the excuse Democrats are using to strip VP Cheney of Executive Priviledge, that he’s an officer of the US Legislature and 3) if the VP just sits around just in case the President becomes incompacitated, why can’t she do that and have a special needs child? The Obama campaign rather talk about Gov. Palin’s clothes when in fact everyone does this, put prominent people in top-of-the-line clothes so they can auction it off for top dollar for charities. Professional athletes do it; they use a new jersey every game. Why? they don’t have to; it would save money, but they auction it off, “Kobe Bryant played an NBA game in this jersey!” for top dollar and donate it to charity. They rather nurse their lead and run out the clock on us, than talk about the important issues of the day, such as: why does Sen. Obama think the restrictive nature of the Constitution make it a flawed document? why does he think 5 Supreme Court justices should make slavery reparations a matter of Constitutional law? You see, John McCain will protect the Constitution by appointing strict constructionist judges. Sen. Obama will appoint radical judges that will use and distort the United States Constitution to advance their own activist agenda: on the issue of redistributive reparations, Barack Obama thinks judges should make a white-tax and a refundable black-tax-credit (aka handout, welfare) a matter of Constitutiontal law.

You have been listening and watching to so many GOP lies that you can’t tell what is a lie and what is the truth anymore. You guys have Obama’s policies so screwed up.
Posted by: becky | Oct 29, 2008 3:11:55 PM
That’s what parrots do. Repeat everything. They don’t know if it’s true or not.

Posted by: Clintonites for McCain | Oct 29, 2008 3:44:07 PM
How many PUMA memebers left 20?

Clintonites for McCain,
If you do not know or understand what a socialist society is, you are in it. A complete control, well getting there, of the propaganda machine to achieve anything you want your subsidiaries. Mr. 0bama knows and practice well that he can via his media repeat a lie a thousand times and it becomes the truth.

How many PUMA memebers left 20?
Posted by: Jwench | Oct 29, 2008 3:55:09 PM
I’m one, too. There are millions of us, apparently not as many as ACORN fraudulent votes, though, or else Sen. Clinton would be our nominee and not Sen. Obama.

– Mr. 0bama knows and practice well that he can via his media repeat a lie a thousand times and it becomes the truth. –
Umm, that is the GOP mantra, spearheaded by Karl Rove and well practiced over the last few election cycles. Unfortunately for them, people have seen through the tactic and only the ignorant are falling for it this year.

The GOP is a broken party.. they would not even invite their grand puba Bush to the nomination convention. McCain claims he is the change candidate, but is a clone of Bush, only dumber. Palin is out spewing complete ignorance, claiming that under Obama, the government will own your soul and every possession you have. They are living in a world of denial and illusion, and have not figured out that it’s their positions on the issues that are wrong.
The GOP may be old, but they are far from being grand.

– Mr. 0bama knows and practices well that he can via his media repeat a lie a thousand times and it becomes the truth. –
Please cite a few examples.. I’d be interested in seeing what you consider ‘lies’ since you obviously ignore the blatent ones the McCain camp has been throwing around.

– “I only increase taxes on those who makes more than $250,000″. –
And your proof it’s a lie?
http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/

Still waiting..

Concerned American,
You should be concerned. Blindness in politics is unhealthy. Chairman Mao achieved his goals with the help of hundreds of millions supporters, “for the common good of the society”.

Concerned American,
I never knew or heard what my uncle-like rev. Wright said in my career building, baby holy washing, marriage licensing Trinity.

Concerned American,
You typical white person, it’s our time, my 0bama time.

It would be wonderful if the majority of you who are giving your comments could be innovative by coming up with solutions to help our our country instead of thrashing the candidates and their running mates. Is America ready to legalize drugs? Can America rebuild are manufacturing infrastructor? Does America need a new party that truly represents the people? These are just few ideas that I am throwing out there. Please give some of your input or your own ideas or questions that we can discuss and share. Whom ever wins in the end is still our president no matter if he is a donkey or elephant but meanwhile let’s be positive with our comments and be creative with your ideas in how to make America better.

Concerned American,
“find ways to safely harness nuclear power”
0bama found ways of building exactly zero, Zero, that’s nada, nuclear power plants in the next 10 years.
We, on the other hand, found exact Zero word of nuclear in his political platform.
Zero is his character; done nothing, doing nothing and will do nothing, nada.

– let’s be positive with our comments and be creative with your ideas in how to make America better. –
I agree, however the anti-obama crowd seems bent on simply throwing mud and ducking issues.
For example, trickle down taxation plans have failed horribly time and time again. Since it was coined by Hoover in 1927, and played a significant role in what happened in 1929. Regan managed to set the record in unemployment and raise the national debt more than all presidents before him combined (from under $1 trillion to over $2.6). Bush Jr. managed to take a balanced budget and still raise the deficit by $133 billion his first year.
I have yet hear one single person explain how McCain differs significantly in any platform stance from Bush.
In contrast, Obamas plan will get the economy back on track by injecting capital into the heart of the economic engine. In addition, his health plan is superior to McCains in every aspect, will allow more Americans to obtain insurance, and will further inject an estimated $140 billion a year into the economy as savings to employers providing health insurance to their workers. The increased number of insured patients in the system will further inject capital into our economy.
Obamas foreign policy stance one of dialog, not military might. That is one issue cited by Powell as his reason for supporting Obama, as it the reasons given by most military officials like the former supreme commander of Nato, and various other military officials.
There is a reason the world is looking forward to Obama being in the White House, and it is unfortunate that many cannot, or simply don’t want to see it.

The reason why the conservatives are so scared of a democratic congress and president is because they know when they had a republican congress and president they ruined America! So these conservative supporters can tell you what happens when you let people that aren’t responsible or care about the American people represent you~> the past 8 years! Some people don’t like to look at the facts (conservatives) but reality is.. President Bush sucked and McCain hasn’t told us anything he’s going to do differently…

Concerned American,
You should stop repeating lies. Zero-bama proposes to build Zero nuclear power plants during his term if he was elected. This is a fact. You only hope to repeat your lies 1000 times, and you think it will become the truth.

– 0bama plans to build exactly Zero power plants in his life. –
Can you give me next weeks lotto numbers also?? Florida and New York would suffice :)

Can you give me next weeks lotto numbers also?? Florida and New York would suffice :)
Posted by: Concerned American | Oct 29, 2008 4:56:10 PM
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Florida: 622246
NY: 02262

“The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing ‘God Bless America.’ No, no, no, God damn America, that’s in the Bible for killing innocent people, God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.”

That’s because the pdf of his energy plan is for some reason not “searchable.” Go to his web site and read this document:
http://www.barackobama.com/pdf/factsheet_energy_speech_080308.pdf
You will clearly see a pragmatic, responsible position on nuclear energy

“The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing ‘God Bless America.’ No, no, no, God damn America, that’s in the Bible for killing innocent people, God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.”
Posted by: TheRev | Oct 29, 2008 5:06:20 PM
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0bama’s Reverend for 20 years, his and his wife’s and their children’s entire adult and youth lives.

weezer,
You need to understand that you get less tax cut because you make too little, but you are actually getting a greater tax rate cut.
If you make only $20,000 and get 5% cut in tax rate, your get $1,000 in tax cut.
If the rich makes $1,000,000, who pays $35,000, almost twice of your entire income, get just 1% cut in tax rate, 500% less than yours, he gets $10,000 tax cut.
Do you understand the difference??????
0bama taught you poor, less-educated people so bitterly well.

factcheck, it is you who apparently doesn’t get it.
McCain will tax the middle class more so he can give it to the wealthy. That was HIS argument back in 2000 when he opposed bush and his tax cuts for the wealthy.
Funny, but now it is the other way around, the more ignorant scream out how it isn’t so.

Bush ran on the premise of being a uniter and not a divider. Once in office he and the Republicans never attempted to work with the other side unitl 9/11 and that was to prey on a weakend period sympathy and fear to allow the president to settle a personal grudge against Saddam. After the 2006 elections, Bush said he was to going to work with the Democratic congress and continued his devisive ways. 6 years of not vetoing a single bill under a republican congress but was quick to use his veto when the Dems were in charge. Obama has talked about unity and McCain wants to instill fear. I hope the Dems win it all and when they do they will show those haters that they do want to work together with the other side. A prime example is that how they included the republicans in talks about the bailout.

– The second fact is that 0bama will INCREASE many people’s, those making $110K per couple, taxes. –
Bzzzt.. wrong answer. Where do you people come up with this stuff?
Married filing jointly, you would have to earn over $250 before you see a tax increase in your federal income tax.
http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/numbers/displayatab.cfm?Docid=1976&DocTypeID=7

Married filing jointly, you would have to earn over $250 before you see a tax increase in your federal income tax.
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Concerned,
There used to be marriage penalty; now, 0bama is bringing it back!
According to your numbers, a married couple making $250K will see their taxes increase tremendously, but if you are single you do not get tax hikes by 0bama before you exceed $200K.
It seems that you guys are penalizing marriage, the nucleus of the country, by a warping $150K.
0bama = marriage penalty on taxes.

– 0bama = marriage penalty on taxes. –
If you refuse to research the garbage you spew, you will simply continue to shoot yourself in the foot everytime you open your mouth..
http://obama.senate.gov/news/060130-bayh_obama_urge/
– According to your numbers, a married couple making $250K will see their taxes increase tremendously, –
Tremendously?? $250K is the break even point.. so they would not see their taxes increase a dime.
– It seems that you guys are penalizing marriage, the nucleus of the country, by a warping $150K. –
You are indeed funny.. I could pull numbers out of thin air as well, but instead prefer to base my analysis on reality and the figures provided. Keep clinging.. it will all be over soon.

– If you keep progressively increasing the tax burden, at what rate do you believe, does 0bama believe, to be “fair”? –
He has already stated that rates would go back to pre-bush levels but less than or equal to that under Clinton..
And your ‘trickle down’ argument failed at the box office. Has never worked, and continuing to try it expecting a different result is simply delusional. And it also is the reason we are in a recession at the moment in case you missed it.

Concerned American,
If Hillary Clinton’s proposal to use the $300 billion to target banking, mortgage and financial sectors one year ago was recognized as the correct solution and a better judgment on the status of the economy, we might, just might have avoided the market crash and financial crisis that leads to the current recession.
0bama ridiculed Clinton’s proposal, pushed for Bush’s money giveways. Perhaps, that $600 really did you well, but it did nothing for the economy.
This is a glimpse of his yet another lack of judgment on key issues.
This is more important than trickle down or tax up economies.

– we might, just might have avoided the market crash and financial crisis that leads to the current recession. –
Wrong.. we have been in a recession for much longer than the recent crisis which was just a side effect. The primary reason for recession, and eventual economic depression is sustained large scale deficit spending. And as the National Bureau on Economic Research says:
“Never in the history of modern economics has a large industrial country run persistent current account deficits of the magnitude posted by the U.S. since 2000.”
http://www.nber.org/digest/mar06/w11541.html
And back in their December 2001 report, they said:
“All good things must come to an end, including good economic times. It’s now official that the longest economic expansion in U.S. records has ended after ten years of rising incomes and employment. The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), the private non-profit research organization that is the official arbiter for dating economic cycles, recently declared that the latest expansion ended and a recession began in March”.
http://www.nber.org/feldstein/bg120401.html
That was 2001, and the handwriting was on the wall, yet Bush continued to push for even more tax cuts neglecting increased spending, particularly after he performed the largest government reorganization since WWII (costing us $50 billion a year), and his unprovoked attack on Iraq (costing us $10 billion a month).
McCain is Bush on steroids, since he wants even more tax cuts. Former fed chairman Volker and Greenspan both are against that, as are most economic gurus in our country. McCain has admitted he knows nothing about the economy, and he continues to show that lack of knowledge.. he refuses to realize that continued tax cuts will destroy this country, and is doing so simply to get votes.

“Never in the history of modern economics has a large industrial country run persistent current account deficits of the magnitude posted by the U.S. since 2000.”
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I see, Mr. Concerned American, where 0bama’s comparison came from. In January and February, 0bama kept telling us that the Clinton administration and the Bush administration were the same. I suppose he already attributed the current market crash and recession to that prior to the last economic cycle.
Guess what, that comparison is the reason that I am against 0bama. He has sold out his fellow democrat, the only successful President of the party in the past 60 years. 0bama sold his souls for the only purpose of deceiving voters to get their votes.

Update America:
What does spreading the wealth really mean? Not only tax credits as most of you think but it will also include Condemnation, the taking of property under Eminent Domain sometimes with appropriate compensation.
The majority opinion in the Supreme Court case involving New London, Conn., limited the homeowners’ rights by saying local governments could take private property for economic-development-related projects because the motive was to bring more jobs and tax revenue to a city. Moreover, the federal government may use land that is considered for the good of the general public.
How does it work? Charlie, no property owner, is included in a federal land project that supports giving owned land (property) to those persons the federal government considers qualified to own land. Joe the land owner has 24,000 square feet of land on which Joe the land owner only uses 12,000 square feet for housing. The federal government in its share the wealth program condemns half of Joe the land owner’s owned land and gives him a tax credit as just compensation for the land. The local government sub-divides the property into two lots. The half that was condemned is now titled to the new owner, Charlie no property owner, who is now Joe the land owner.
Condemnation can apply to Joe the land owner with large acreage. The federal government in its share the wealth program condemns 10 acres of Joe the land owner and gives a tax credit as just compensation. The local government zones the property as residential and sub-divides the land into housing lots. Charlie, no property owner, is selected to receive a lot to build a house.
Wake up America your rights are melting away by the way of socialism.
No Obama share the wealth programs for those in the know.

Mission Accomplished! Democracy in Iraq, Failure at home! Long live the Bush legacy…failure, failure, failure.

I would perfer one branch of the Government be in the opposite parties hands to be a check and balance … a locked rubber stamp will produce bad legislation …no question about it

Becky – you were never a Republican but have been a lying Democrat the whole time. You’ve exposed yourself more than a gay priest. You’ve been drunk by warped sense of morals. You are obviously too stupid to have even read Obama’s policies, which contain lots of lies anyway. Shut off your computer before the idiot police come take you away.