In Weekly Address, Obama Changes Focus to Financial Regulatory Reform

Boehner needs to be slapped … he is a drunk and a lout.

Focusing like a laser beam.
He said ObamaCare is about the character of America.
More like Obama’s lack of character.
Maybe Obama should try to pass something on its merit instead of using bribes.

“The Republican leader in the House reportedly met with a top executive of one of America’s largest banks and made thwarting reform a key part of his party’s pitch for campaign contributions,” the president said.
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“Reportedly”, Mr. President? Did he or didn’t he? If he did, what’s with the ‘reportedly’?
If he didn’t, why are you spreading gossip and rumors?

***bobtherepublican – Seriously? You would put jobs over reform? Sure, let’s continue what did this nasty recession (they are) and have one even worse. Then we’ll worry about some jobs. They need to be doing both. I don’t trust any of them to do financial reform like we probably need because both parties are about the same in this area.
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You didn’t read my post did you? Anyway All I said was “I htink the president was going to piviot to jobs, not finaincial reform” which he said in speaches leading up to and in the state of the union.
I may be using the presidents words against him but they are still his words.

“But still, I thought the president was going to piviot to jobs, not financial reform?”
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Its never been about jobs. After one year that has become painfully obvious. oBama and his democrat cohorts are running out of time to nationalize as much as they can before they get the boot in November.
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Its been said that if you look for signs of life at the atomic level you will never find anything. But, take a step back and you will be amazed at what you see. So, while tierra, progressive mama, ryan c, etc. all fling their monkey-poo at everyone here debating specific points about different policies, take a step back and look at what oBama has done so far. Nationalize banks, nationalize car companies, trying to nationalize insurance companies, trying to nationalize student loans and therefore more control over higher education, controlling energy production through the crap and tax scam, etc.
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Ask yourself, what the heck is a takeover of the student loan program doing in a health care reform bill? oBama sat in Jeramiah Wrights “church” for 20 years. He knew exactly what Wright was preaching and by the looks of the crap he is pushing through… he was paying very close attention for those 20 years.

I am not fond of politicians, but I do not get you Obama lovers. Obama is a radical who plans to convert America into some kind of European socialists country. I agree there are rich people who need to get slapped now and then, but to take money away from nearly every one so the current poor people will have what the rich do, and not have to work for it. You wanted Obama, now we are all stuck with him. Take a long look at what he is doing and what he has done. How many lies has he told?

Under the guise of “reform” an imposter is stealing this country. Every institution that provides a service or makes a product is evil in the mind of this tyrannical dictator.

Who does Obama think he is fooling?
Only the naive and hopelessly devoted still believe him.
Obama is corporate owned and controlled.
And it’s his big rich fatcat campaign donors that he is really looking out for.
Who did he make a backdoor sleazy deal with months ago? The hospital lobby and Big PhRma.
And the result is ObamaCare–30 million new customers guaranteed to benefit the HC industry.
Is it any wonder their stocks are skyrocketing as OCare passes?
Obama is shameful.

Banderman | Mar 20, 2010 10:13:44 AM: You had the “highway” for the previous 8 years, how well has it worked for you?

JoetheDoctor wrote”: “Let’s be honest my fellow tea party members…Maybe we should impose a net worth test in order to gain entry into this organization/political party…Let’s simply throw out of our party anyone earning less than $200k/year. That would be a good start in eliminating many of these ‘non-thinkers’.
NO! We need the non-thinkers for their votes. As long as we can keep the percentage of America’s wealth flowing into the wealthy but can fool those non-thinkers into fighting the “redistribution of wealth to the poor” we’ll be all right. And as long as we have people thinking up clever, catchy words and phrases like “death panels, “drill baby drill”, “socialism”, “leftist”, “loss of freedom”, etc, that don’t apply at all but appeal to the non-thinkers, we wealthy will do just fine!

He and Mr. Steele think that middle class is those that only make a million dollars a year , and they care nothing about anything else. posted by wdworld51
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I would love to see one quote where any Republican said ‘middle class is those that only make a million dollars a year’. Of course, no quote exists.
So you are (a)delusional; (b)fibbing; (c)just spouting what you’ve been told by some left-wing nut that is (a) or (b) themself.

I think JoetheDoctor hit the nail on the head in that we do need to eliminate a lot of the uneducated riff-raff in our party but I believe we need to wait until December to do so. Many of these people associate themselves with our party but are the same people that serve us at fine dining establishments and landscape our estates. Some of them are over-reaching and need to be knocked back down to their rung of the ladder. Until then, lets crush this socialist health plan!!!

The President signed a Jobs Bill earlier this week. Fox is reporting that he is turning his back on priorities while he attempts to push through health care reform. It’s not true, he signed the Jobs Bill and is working on Finance Reform..
Posted by: Sharonkathleen | Mar 20, 2010 10:59:16 AM
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It is so sad to watch as Obama and his henchman force America over the cliff. Also watching so many Americans believing it is a good thing. Many are soon going to realize that the biggest problem we have as a country is our Government and their big expensive take-over bills are only going to make it much worse than it is.

What Obama is saying is that Wall St executives will get more gigantic bonuses in the future in the next stimulus package.

“As usual the Republicans represent the banks, corporations and the wealthy.”
You’re not serious, are you?
It was Obama and the Democrats who built in the Wall St. bonuses into the stimulus package. It was Obama who got more money from bankers than ANYONE in history.

The richest politicans in DC are the Democrats. They also have the largest amount of tax-cheats — who also not only go unpunished, but get rewarded by this Administration. This Democratic party is the most corrupt group in the history of this country.

Boehner has a fan club? Only on Fox News.

If Fox News could make more money going left-wing they would be there in a New York minute. They’d probably have to dump the sorority sisters who pose as news anchors.

Obama goes underwater on latest RCP polling. Glug. Glug.

Obama goes underwater on latest RCP polling. Glug. Glug.
Posted by: For the Record | Mar 20, 2010 2:34:06 PM
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President Reagan sank to 35% approval rating during the first term of his presidency.
President Obama is no where near 35% approval rating and is dealing with an economy just as bad, if not far worse, than the one Reagan faced.
Again, we know you’re clamoring for the failure of the President, but even the smallest bit of historical perspective would better inform your posts.

Special interest.
That’s a fight Obama is willing to have.
Right after he makes a sweetheart deal with them.
Unions, the hospital lobby, AMA, AARP, Big Phrma.
He’s so tough with them isn’t he?

Boy!..these coolaid drinking Obama bobbleheads are amazing. When are the Dems going to quit blaming their inabilities on Bush…you have the majority, use it….if you know how.

..these coolaid drinking Obama bobbleheads
Posted by: wecom | Mar 20, 2010 3:08:54 PM
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“coolaid” – now that IS clever! Did you think that up yourself?! Amazing how you can think for yourself! You’re not just repeating something you saw somewhere else are you? Like in a “bobblehead” fashion? Of course not . . .

PwTexas- Tough to defend Regan when he was the first President to start borrowing $ at an alarming rate. Personally, I think Regan was a good prez but he started the trend of buy now and pay later which has led to a nice 13 trillion dollar debt. 65% of our economy is national defense, govt employees and intrest on our debt- that is insane.

“The press was totally against Ronald and the press is totally for Obama.”
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Nonsense. You apparently don’t pay much attention to the press, radio or news television.
Reagan like Obama had very high approval ratings early in his presidency which dropped steadily to a low of 35% during his first term – as the economy struggled.
Unemployment got worse under Reagan for two full years hitting a peak of 10.8% then staying at 10% for another 6 months before gradually beginning to improve.

“The American people are asking, where are the jobs? But once again, Washington Democrats are offering partisan jabs rather than solutions.” How, uhhh, disingenuous. But then, that’s exactly what I’ve come to expect from the GOP. When you got nothin’, change the subject.

How this president consistently picks the WRONG problems to address is beyond me. His Harvard and Columbia education were certainly wastes of taxpayer funding!

Obama is helping Democratic Presidents with their ratings. Until Obama, Jimmy Carter was the worst modern president. By today’s standards, Carter looks like a rocket scientist…. Oh wait, Carter was a rocket scientist.
OK, time to get another movie star president and get the country going again.

VIDEO: Key House Dem Declares: ‘There Ain’t No Rules Here … We Make ‘Em Up As We Go Along’…
Democrats and their media bedmates..Socialism at its best
Diane Sawyer: no one knows my poltics..OH YES WE DO

SOURCE: They’re going to vote for the ‘fix it’ bill, before voting on Senate-passed bill. They’re going to vote against it, before voting for it…
Obama VS America
Marxism

Andy, I’d be interested in knowing where you’re getting your “news” that you haven’t heard anything about how much Obama has been talking about jobs lately?
Or that he just signed the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act into law Thursday?
Posted by: JaylahPriest |
Andy, Obama is going to talk the unemployment rate down. And when HIREA doesn’t work, he’ll huff and he’ll puff and he’ll talk some more.

give Bohner a dog bone and a tanning booth and something to lie about and he is in heaven

Mark L. | Mar 20, 2010 5:44:59 PM… Here’s one the Iraq War cost the American taxpayers nearly 700 billion dollars and rising for nothing!! Great return on our investment… That’s President Obama’s fault too…

Now lets hear your excuse about why obama has run up the deficit 2 trillion dollars in 421 days which makes Bush look like a frugal spender only raising it 2 1/2 trillion in 8 years. I know you will blame it on Bush that is the easy way to justify incompetence.
Posted by: Mark L. | Mar 20, 2010 5:44:59 PM
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First of all Mark, your figures are wrong. And also, you must be mistaken calling what you’re talking about the ‘deficit’ because the TOTAL deficit for 2010 tops out at $1.35 trillion – making it impossible for Obama to run up the deficit $2 trillion, since the last Bush deficit was already at .9 trillion dollars.
So, you must be talking about the national debt – and even then you’re wrong. Check the Bureau of Public Debt, Department of the Treasury web site – you’ll find Bush increase the national debt by 4.9 trillion dollars.
So right away Mark, your ability to deliver worthwhile information is pretty suspect.
Second, you seem to ignore the economic collapse that happened on the Bush watch – and you seem completely ignorant of the effects of a major economic collapse on deficits and budgets. Study it some time.

I know you will blame it on Bush that is the easy way to justify incompetence. Posted by: Mark L. *********
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And I totally agree !!!!

tierra, the ecomomy was already
on the free fall. Remember Bush tried
boosting the economy by giving checks
out quickly, (hmmmm socialistic???),
but with gas prices hovering at $4.00 a
gallon and higher, all that money went into
filling the car tanks! And guess where the
money funneled to… the sheiks and kings
in the sand, you know, the ones that finance
the bombings around the world! Living with those
devils is no easy task.

This is the best bill that a corrupted Congress-full of D’s and R’s can come up with in 100 years. Pass this bill and then amend the constitution to ensure that Congress and the states may prohibit corporations and unions from spending their funds on political activities. Then an uncorrupted government may revisit this legislation and plug the holes, without losing the hard won gains that are so long overdue.

Vote for health care bill! Everyone needs it.

Tad.. most middle class Americans working full time jobs and have little or no health care coverage. Not to mention retirees that retire and have 5 years before they can go on medicare. Premiums have become so high that most middle class workers can’t afford it.Even when the company they work for contributes. Farmers can’t afford their premiums and many drop their insurance because of it. And those that can scratch together $600 -$1000 a month find themselves under insured with astronomical out of pocket expenses and co-pays. And if a company you work for drops health care coverage and you then have to go out and purchase it, you better hope you don’t have a pre-existing condition like cancer or a sick child, cause you won’t get any insurance.You can be denied for something as simple as a mole removal.We need health care reform for all Americans.And this is a start.

All,
To all of you that are so skeptical, have you researched any of the information you hear or read on your own? For those of you that say this is a government takeover, your entirely mistaken. Reform means to change what is, not create something that isn’t. This bill will kick the Health Insurance companies in the FACE!!! You have to have auto insurance, think about yourself as a car it will break down you will need repair why shouldn’t you be required to have health insurance. Anything man makes will break, same with this bill and the one before it and with all others but you have to realize we can change our government to meet the needs of now and the future. In time when loopholes are found we can correct them, when corporations are respectful to their employees we can grow prosperously. However when corporations are the ones who can run amuck without any oversight and they create a depression you say the government should have stopped them. However you were the ones that said we need to deregulate. Yet you all believe your government is at fault. Your wrong, the person who you elected is wrong by not listening to you but the lobbyist. Yet you voted that way by not doing any research of your own, you let Glen Beck or Rush Limbaugh lead you to a desert when they said they were taking you to an oasis. For all of you that want to get Medicare or Social Security you shouldn’t get it, because you are wanting to continue the statuesque. Both of those bills were hard to pass and you enjoy it now so you need to just give it up because you aren’t willing to fight for those that can’t get health insurance. Yet you have no problem helping someone outside our borders but helping someone in our borders is a sin. You all should take a good look in the mirror and when you look at yourself, imagine a maggot traveling in your face because we all have to die so let’s have a good time living!!

PO’d commented…what would have the republicans done in Jan 2009?…. let the banks fail, attack Iran, tax cuts…
The same thing…
The Stimulus that Obama passed was already in the works under Bush before Obama ever took office that’s why it passed so quickly and with so much Republican support…
It didn’t matter who would have become President in 2008… There was going to be a Stimulus in 2009 to bailout the banks…

theafalco200 Said: “The Stimulus that Obama passed was already in the works under Bush before Obama ever took office that’s why it passed so quickly and with so much Republican support…”
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Duhh…there were “2″ stimulus packages:
(1) The “Wall Street Bailout”, also known as the EMERGENCY ECONOMIC STABILIZATION ACT OF 2008 –> Dreamed up by Bush’s Treasury Secretary, Henry Paulson, and signed by G.W. Bush on October 3rd, 2008.
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(2) The “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009″, signed by President Obama on February 17th 2009.

Vote to support the Middle Class..pass healthcare reform NOW!!!

More regulations and taxes for the rich. Remember what Barry told “Joe the Plumber”…redistribution of wealth. Workers of the World, Unite!!!

..scary thought, but isn’t this guy ..Obama, that is..starting to remind you of Chavez…you know, it is my way, or the highway. What happened to the campaign he ran….oh yeah, now I remeber…..he got elected. Remember the one about the locusts descending all over the gentle folk…….they’ve grown up now…………the deficit flies are upon us.

I hope it passes so we can stop the little boy p contest by the Dem vs Rep groups. How about doing this for the people, we do not care who gets stuff done that benefits the majority of the people as a nation. We are Americans, we are not as cohesive as other nations. The Rep do not want to lose face and the false stuff they say and the tone of their words is shameful to me as an American. People shouting bad remarks over this bill in the Washington building is very hurtful to all Americans,

Wow, most folks here don’t seem to understand what financial regulation means.
It will be a bunch of rules to prevent the banking system collapse that our country just barely survived and which caused banks around the world to falter.
(We had good financial rules put in place after the financial collapse during the Great Depression. Those rules worked well until Republicans started weakening them in the 90′s with legislation pushed by their friends in the banking industry.)
For anyone to object to having strong federal legislation to regulate banking, they would be saying they want a repeat of the banking meltdown we just had. Anyone want to raise their hands for that?