President Obama’s Campaign Arm Tries to Get Grass-Roots Democrats to Defeat Fellow Progressive

Vote progressive. I remember reading an article a few months back about how dead that organization is because of neglect from Obama.

Vote for TOOMEY!!! Specter needs to go but Sestak is not much better. Sestak voted for Obamacare even though his district overall is against it- he will continue to expand govt. and raise taxes!!! Vote Sestak or Specter in the primary, but in Nov. vote for TOOMEY!!!!!!!!

Vote PROGRESSIVE!
NO MORE DINOs and BLUE DOGS

to collect unimployment cheque
Posted by: lsemaq | May 15, 2010 11:35:06 AM
Sorry no unemployment line for him, he will make more money being ousted from the senate then when he in. Courtesy of the american people.

There’s no hope for Sen. Arlen Specter.
A man without convictions shouldn’t represent anyone because he can’t even represent himself.

This shows how STUPID the obamanator thinks the voters are.

I hope Specter loses big time — he only cares about himself. In Nov, I hope the Dems get FLUSHED across the entire country before the ruin us all beyond the point of being able to recover. I couldn’t stand Bush Jr, but he’s a near-deity compared to Obumbler, Commie Pelosi, Hairy Reid, and Dopey Joe Biden!

The guy is 80 for crying out loud. Get to the dog track already and GET the HELL OUT!!!
He doesn’t even know who he’s talking to anymore. Maybe the moron empty suit Obama should lend Specter his teleprompter.

This Dem is voted for Hillary and will be voting for Sestak as many times as it takes.

Let me guess, Obama’s going to try to run another sleazy demonization campaign of pitting one class against the other to divide and conquer America for more Democrat votes, of pitting job creators against the workers so our economy suffers more and he can step in with big government to save the day, a campaign that demonizes multi-media outlets so that he can finally shut them all down except for Obama News Network USA.
Meanwhile, Obama, after smearing IPods, Blogs, and other media outlets for . . . exercising free speech, now has his own video outlet on his very own blog. Does he think we’re stupid as to not see through what he’s trying to do?:
According to the Washington Post: “Chaudhary, a former film professor at New York University who extensively documented Obama’s presidential campaign, added: “As the official White House videographer it’s my job to document the president’s activities, in motion pictures, … It’s almost as if our flickr site could talk.”
Transparency, you betcha. Transparently hypocritical.

What is “progressive” about Socialism? Wherever it was tried it resulted in a lower standard of living for the middle class; the elites continued to live large.
Prudent Man | May 15, 2010 12:09:04 PM
Our socialist police, fire, sewer, water, food safety, defense, internet (socialist developed, supported, expanded to the private sector and governed), roadways, and yes, even education (heckuva lot better than the non-socialist options!) seem to have not hindered the US becoming the most powerful and prosperous free nation mankind has ever seen.
Do you know what socialism even is?

Progressive — Socialism, equals Feudalism . They are all the same they turn people into serfs and debt slaves.

I cannot understand the Republican mentality when it is so very obvious to anyone with an average IQ that the corporations are stealing form ALL of us and now we have a David to their Goliath who has already done so much for ALL of us! There is no logic in this absence of thought. The only conclusion anyone can have is that the hate is purely racial. How very demoralizing for ALL of us.

The reason is simple, he is about to lose this senate seat to a conservative republican in the general. He thinks he has a better chance with the RINO turned dem Specter than the outright socialist running against him.

america we must remove this nightmare in nov and nov im 2012. the teleprompter is following in the footsteps of his pal chavez. he tries to control the media , which was chavez’s first step, the second was demonize the people who produce jobs to continue the malaize,as you are desperate he infuses alms to keep you semi happy. this guy is traight out of a alinsky school of socialism. the only problem facing america is our media is to dumb or scared to actually report it.

Democrats are SO sure of their standing with the voters that they refuse to even CONSIDER dealing with next year’s budget during an election year. The most ethical Congress evah!

Posted by: jhw539 | May 15, 2010 12:29:49 PM Our socialist police, fire, sewer, water, food safety, defense, internet (socialist developed, supported, expanded to the private sector and governed), roadways, and yes, even education (heckuva lot better than the non-socialist options!) seem to have not hindered the US becoming the most powerful and prosperous free nation mankind has ever seen.—–Even though none of those examples you cited is socialist (equating something used by the public at large doesn’t make it socialist), for the sake of argument, name one that isn’t failing miserably. Our infrastructure is falling apart, our food/water/drug safety is pretty much a joke, our ranking in education has plummeted, beginning the decline after the Dept. of Ed. was created. There is not one thing on your list that has improved after greater govt. involvement .

Hmmm, big decision here. A turncoat who switched parties vs a braggart that he will be Obama’s right hand man. That means if Sestak wins get ready for higher taxes and Cap-and-Tax. Might as well stay home, switch to the Republican Party and wait until November to elect a Conservative. Unless of course, you are happy with higher cigarette taxes, higher Federal income taxes coming January 1st, higher capital gains taxes, and higher taxes on interest and dividends next year.

Right on comrade! Tell it!
Btw, Obama is a millionaire, right?
Posted by: For The Record
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But Obama was right to borrow that money from China!

If this were about a GOP president favoring one senate candiatae over another, the story line form Tapper and the rest of the tools in the media would be
“Strife in the GOP. Can the party survive?”
Barney | May 15, 2010 1:14:56 PM
Oh please, because that has NEVER, EVER happened. Yup, no Republican president has ever, EVER preferred one candidate over another. Otherwise you’d be able to cite those headlines, right?
Give the paranoid persecution complex a rest for a minute. Last I checked, the most popular “news” channel in America was unabashedly pro-Republican and literally sponsoring the Tea Party.

What a relief, I thought Dems. were trying to save Phil Spector

This is how the Constitution was written and ratified (do you think the 3/5 compromise was the best possible solution? The first 10 amendments were the result of such a deal cut in 1788.
Posted by: jhw539 | May 15, 2010 1:03:31 PM
Absolutely! In fact, I’m sure Obama used that exact same reasoning when he welcomed Specter into the fold!
/rolls eyes

How long did you think you’d get away without a tax increase
Posted by: tierra
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Well, he told us he wasn’t going to increase taxes. How many times did you repeat that?

Obama is becoming a joke – so predictable is pay off to that loser Specter for his vote. The truth is we don’t need people like Specter in Congress and he is not alone. Dodd, franks, boxer, reid etc. all need to go.
Their stupity is killing our country

Well, he told us he wasn’t going to increase taxes. How many times did you repeat that?
Posted by: smartlillena | May 15, 2010 1:31:10 PM
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And how long did you think that was supposed to last? Till eternity?

As always, it’s about Obama and what HE wants. It has nothing to do with what the PEOPLE want or who they want to vote for
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Nonsense. The President has 51% approval today in Gallup – the majority of people approve of what he’s doing same as they did when he was elected.

And how long did you think that was supposed to last? Till eternity?
Posted by: tierra
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No, darling, I knew he was lying (again) when he said it. You believed him. No matter what Borak Ubama tells you, 2+2=4, it did then, it always has and it always will.
Remember: “Obama told a lot of lies during his campaign” (something like that)
Nancy Pelosi spoke out of turn and told the truth for once, herself.

Posted by: tierra
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ROFLMFAO
You’re the one who believed the lying &^%$ then and is rationalizing now.

You’re the one who believed the lying &^%$ then and is rationalizing now.
Posted by: smartlillena | May 15, 2010 2:08:17 PM
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No smartillena, I was not stupid enough to think there would never be any increase in taxes – after Bush putting 2 wars, the seniors program and tax cuts for the rich on our credit card.
I expected the President to do what he’s done – provide tax relief for 95% of Americans and small business in order to stimulate the economy – tax those with salaries over $200,000 and eventually (when the economy is more healthy) apply some new taxes to try to pay down the debt that resulted from the Republican overspending and undertaxing, and presiding over the almost free-fall collapse of the American economy.

Posted by: For The Record | May 15, 2010 2:09:29 PM
The President’s approval rating has been at 50% approval or just below for months now.
Reagan fell to 35% during his first term – also during a very difficult economy.

Go Toomey GO! Throw out all the dems!

The President’s approval rating has been at 50% approval or just below for months now.
Posted by: tierra | May 15, 2010 2:15:28 PM
Exactly, so why weren’t you posting here saying “the majority of people DO NOT approve of what he’s doing.”
Hmmmm?

Posted by: For The Record | May 15, 2010 2:18:45 PM
p.s – it wasn’t the Democrats who put the 2 wars, the seniors drug program and the tax cuts for the rich on the country’s credit card – it was the Bush Republicans.

Exactly, so why weren’t you posting here saying “the majority of people DO NOT approve of what he’s doing.”
Hmmmm?
Posted by: For The Record | May 15, 2010 2:23:14 PM
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Because that wouldn’t be true. While the President’s approval rating was just below 50%, his disapproval rating was lower than that . ..
Sorry Record, you really don’t seem to have a grasp on facts or reality today . ..
You got it wrong about the length of Democrats in Congress as well . ..

Posted by: tierra | May 15, 2010 2:25:51 PM
Yes I remember now. The Democrats refused to fund the war. And they voted against the prescription… No wait they actually wanted more benefits. It gets so confusing some times keeping up with their ethical and fiscally conservative ideals.

But hey why hold her accountable at all?
Posted by: For The Record | May 15, 2010 2:31:21 PM
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And why hold you accountable when you can’t get facts straight on length of time of Democrats holding congress, or Presidential disapproval ratings?

And they voted against the prescription… No wait they actually wanted more benefits.
Posted by: For The Record | May 15, 2010 2:34:37 PM
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You’re confused because you don’t know what you’re talking about.
195 Democrats voted against Bush’s drug plan – only 9 voted for it.
207 Republicans voted for it. Only 19 against.
For the Record – you ought to be more interested in the real facts rather than your own blathering.

Both “Progressives” are going to lose! The “one” may have a 51% poll rating, but (leaving aside how stats can be skewed) his policies, and those who voted contrary to the will of their constituencies are much less popular amongst average Americans. Most of us have made a promise to ourselves and our friends that we will vote out incumbents on both sides in hopes of getting people into Congress and the Senate who will VOTE THE WILL OF THE “PEOPLE”!!! They work for us, and have FAILED in safeguarding and pursuing “OUR” interests! Time for them to go! Find a candidate (regardless of party) who would vote against the party to do the will of the people! Find candidates who resonate with your thinking and VOTE FOR THEM!!! Do your homework, will they do, or say ANYTHING just to get your vote, or will they TELL YOU HOW THEY REALLY FEEL without worrying about how it will effect your vote? We need servants to the public, who will vote in our best interests alone, who will shun the lobbyists who would attempt to bribe them. We need principled, honest, and enthusiastic defenders of our Constitution and Bill of Rights!!!
-Oz

It is pure folly arguing over Obama’s approval ratings.. we have women who “approve” cause he’s got a “hot body” for heaven’s sake..the 50% approval rating is pertinent only in that it reflects the deep fault line that splits this country…on one side there are people who see the government as the hovering parent, lovingly looking out for their every interest and involved on every level of their lives…on the other side are people who see the government as an unruly teenager with a history of poor work performance, irrational decision making, and who has a habit of taking more money out of the cookie jar.

It’s so sad to see obama followers such as tierra here. Hard to believe tierra can’t even grasp the basic fact of who currently holds the majority in the House and Senate ….a true obama supporter to be sure.

What’s with the obama followers’ new obsession with Reagan? Did I miss a WH memo/text/tweet/full length feature film?

What’s with the obama followers’ new obsession with Reagan? Did I miss a WH memo/text/tweet/full length feature film?
Posted by: littleblindjeffymcrib | May 15, 2010 3:21:14 PM
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It’s not that difficult to figure out. Both Reagan and Obama have had to deal with very difficult economies.
Reagan’s approval rating fell to 35% during his first term; Obama’s holds at about 49%.
It simply shows that difficult economies damage the approval rating of a president, and that Obama’s 49% is impressive, given Reagan’s 35%.
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There is no 51% approval rating.
Posted by: smartlillena | May 15, 2010 3:22:24 PM
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Of course there is – Gallup has the President at 51% approval today.

“…on one side there are people who see the government as the hovering parent, lovingly looking out for their every interest and involved on every level of their lives…”
It’s safe to disregard fictitious right-wing biased descriptions of perceptions that corporate peons don’t even remotely understand. Next tell us how right-wingers see big business as really looking out for our mutual well being and not just gouging us for every dime they can.

What a pity that Obama didn’t physically come to PA and campaign in person for Specter. I guess he’s figured out that he really is the “Kiss of Death.” Hopefully that ad Specter is running with Obama will be enough to put Sestak over the top.

…I “hope” we can “change” the damage being done by the current inept president and his even more inept administration…
Posted by: Independent | May 15, 2010 3:57:45 PM
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More selective memory.
The Bush administration doubled the national debt, exploded the deficit, put most of 2 wars, a seniors drug program and tax cuts for the rich on the taxpayers tab – and then presided over the almost free-fall collapse of the economy.
You have any idea of the effects of those things? Apparently not.

With any luck the Obama change of socialism for America will be stopped in the Keystone State! If you Dimwits want change go ahead and be truthful and change the name of your party to the Democrat Socialist Party!

What a pity that Obama didn’t physically come to PA and campaign in person
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The NBA,NFL, NCAA, NAACP?, Nascar and Pro Wrestling must be praying he starts keeps his predictions to himself.

Specter should have been dead years ago. He looks like a walking corpse. I can’t stand his ad with his digitally enhanced voice because his is so bad. I hope Stesak blows him out of the water. Of course, then I’ll have a really bad choice for November because I don’t like Stesak or Toomey- but at least they won’t be Specter.

Looks like ol’ Arlan an ‘bama are worried about this one!

“Preventing a damn minnow from evolving into extinction”
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Being generous to myself, I’ll say that quip was a little weak. I couldn’t care less about a snail darter, an owl or a blue whale but, no matter.What about that ethanol sham and how much it’s cost every person in this country? The greenie movement has turned into nothing but an advertising gimmick. Then there’s the absolute lies and fraud committed to saddle us with that hc nightmare.
That’s not right wing propaganda, it’s the truth. And those are just 3 examples.

Obama has done more damage in a year and a half, than all previous admin’s combined!!!
Posted by: Independent | May 15, 2010 4:14:30 PM
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More selective memory.
The Bush administration doubled the national debt, exploded the deficit, put most of 2 wars, a seniors drug program and tax cuts for the rich on the taxpayers tab – and then presided over the almost free-fall collapse of the economy.
You have any idea of the effects of those things? Apparently not.

THE LIBS HAVE NOTHING LEFT to defend, except a “kid in a candy store” President, unemployemnt that is approaching 2x more massive, than Bush’s 8 years combined, and a “liberal” House and Senate, that are about to loose BIG TIME…so really, it is not all that bad..change is coming, and it IS NOT NOBAMA’s anymore!! YES!!

President, unemployemnt that is approaching 2x more massive, than Bush’s 8 years combined
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Now you’re talking straight delusion.
Hundreds of thousands of jobs were being lost EVERY month under Bush – at times over 700,000.
Major banks and financial institutions failed under Bush, as did major American auto companies. The stock market collapsed. Foreclosures and bankruptcies started going through the roof.
Oh sure, its Obama who’s made a mess of things.

“Tiera” sounds like a planted mouthpiece for Specter or Obama, doesn’t have a brain of their own.
Posted by: jim 234 | May 15, 2010 6:21:21 PM
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When the Republican right has no facts or argument to stand on, they retreat to personal insult.
The Republican right – lowering the quality of civil politics. Cute.

Posted by: smartlillena | May 15, 2010 6:33:33 PM
You don’t think greenhouse gases are affecting the planet’s climate? What about the oil pollution? What about the plastic breaking down in the ocean? What about the decreasing water table? What about the decimation of the world fish stocks?

Now you’re talking straight delusion.
Hundreds of thousands of jobs were being lost EVERY month under Bush – at times over 700,000.
Major banks and financial institutions failed under Bush, as did major American auto companies. The stock market collapsed. Foreclosures and bankruptcies started going through the roof.
Oh sure, its Obama who’s made a mess of things.
Posted by: tierra | May 15, 2010 6:11:34 PM
Good points, t. As I believe we’ve both noted, per Ronald Brownstein’s piece in the National Journal:
“If the economy produces jobs over the next eight months at the same pace as it did over the past four months, the nation will have created more jobs in 2010 alone than it did over the entire eight years of George W. Bush’s presidency….That comparison comes with many footnotes and asterisks. But …The real point of looking again at Bush’s record is to underscore how few jobs the economy was creating even before the 2008 collapse. Bush’s tally of 1 million jobs was much less than the economy had generated during any other two-term stretch since World War II… Bush’s total, of course, was suppressed … But even during the recovery in between, job growth lagged.”

Twice the authors used the term “progressives.” Read the book, 1984 – “WAR IS PEACE; FREEDOM IS SLAVERY; IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH” – and my addition – “LIBERALS ARE PROGRESSIVES”.
Of course, to liberals all other rational, thinking people (moderates and conservatives) are regressives. Now that is the progressives’ version of tolerance.

OUR COUNTRY IS HEADING THE SAME WAY AS GREECE. EVEN OTHER COUNTRIES ARE TELLING US THAT!! WE REALLY NEED TO GET RID OF EVERY DEMOCRAT POLITICIAN. WE WILL GO DOWN THE TUBES IF WE DON’T.

Ronald Reagan’s vision of America: The government can’t help you–I am the government. We must remember that Specter was all in with the Reganauts.

So what? These morons war going down in November.

smartlillena: You STILL haven’t made a cogent argument beyond calling people names. Exactly what is it you want someone to respond to other than a list of conspiracy theory shorthand?

And they voted against the prescription… No wait they actually wanted more benefits. Posted by: For The Record | May 15, 2010 2:34:37 PM
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You’re confused because you don’t know what you’re talking about. 195 Democrats voted against Bush’s drug plan – only 9 voted for it. 207 Republicans voted for it. Only 19 against.For the Record – you ought to be more interested in the real facts rather than your own blathering.
Posted by: tierra | May 15, 2010 2:41:18 PM
Sometimes you have to dig a little deeper than just the vote count. And also, “pride cometh before the fall.”
“Unfortunately, no consensus emerged on how to reform Medicare as a whole, and how much that would cost. So it looked as if the $400 billion that President Bush put on the table would remain there.
“Meanwhile, actual and projected drug costs continued their explosive ascent. Various Democratic and Republican members of Congress introduced plans to cover out-patient prescription drugs. The 10-year cost of the Democrats’ plans greatly exceeded $400 billion. The Republicans’ plans were much more limited.” -Brookings dot edu

I read this column frequently, as Jake Tapper is one of my favorite journalists, and real journalists are a seriously endangered species.
I’ve never seen such out of the wings comments here before. Climate? I’ve been an environmentalist since the late ’70′s. Water vapor is the #1 greenhouse gas on the planet according to actual climatologists, none of the greenhouse doomsday predictions for the past 40 years has come to pass-no ice ages, no water worlds, no worldwide Sahara-due o the fact that politics and science just don’t mix well and they DO NOT TAKE WATER VPOR INTO ACCOUNT ON THEIR MODELS. That’s why all the doomsday scenarios are supposed to happen 20 to (now) 50 years form now. By then, who cares if the predictions were wrong?
But WHAT does AlGore have to do with Darlin Arlen Spector, a longtime friend of my family here in PA anyhow? The man had principles once: he helped my cousin get a heart transplant, among other things…but that was then and this is now.
He PROMISED at his townhall meetings that he would vote “No” on any healthcare legislation that funded abortion. He PROMISED he would vote “No” on any healthcare legislation that he deemed unconstitutional. He then immediately began emailing that he supports this “robust” healthcare legislation, and he did vote “Yea”.
He has a thin skin though, and we’ve gone back and forth on a number of issues over the years, including his lies on Obamacare.
What Specter is is a union controlled insider. That’s great in PA, where the government of the commonwealth is controlled by the unions. And as I said, he once had a sense of honor after a sort…but he is now a turncoat and a blatant liar, promising one thing and doing another, just like his new owner, Obama. He is costing us JOBS. He is a liability.
Judging by the polls, he actually stands a chance of getting CREAMED by Toomey, who’s ahead of both Spector and Sestak.
PA is hemmoraging jobs, our taxes are rising and our best choice is to leave here looking for greener pastures, which leaves PA with an increasingly senior population. We have a problem here. I don’t give a rotund rodent’s rear WHAT you think of the climate, THE CLIMATE IS NOT THE ISSUE! JOBS ARE THE ISSUE UNLESS YOU’RE A CAREER WELFARE RECIPIENT, and WE PAY YOUR WELFARE CHECK while YOU worry about phony global warming and know nothng of GEOPHYSICS or ANY science except what you regurgitate from those who’s worldviews reinforce your own! Ethanol WILL NOT SAVE OUR JOBS, it’s too EXPENSIVE!! FARM for a freaking while! Growing corn is HARD ON THE SOIL, that’s why THERE IS CROP ROTATION for Pete’s sake!
Darlin’ Arlen has NOTHING TO GIVE the people of THIS COMMONWEALTH anymore, and he is STRUGGLING against the political noose that he put around his OWN neck when he turned coat on his constituents! THAT is what this article is about! Can you people stick to the ISSUES AT HAND once?
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Hey, Tim? Arlen switched parties over a year ago. You must have missed that.

Now you’re talking straight delusion.
Hundreds of thousands of jobs were being lost EVERY month under Bush – at times over 700,000.
Oh sure, its Obama who’s made a mess of things.
Posted by: tierra | May 15, 2010 6:11:34 PM
Jobs lost 2008 (Bush) – approx 2.6 million 
Jobs lost 2009 (Obama) – over 4 million

Are you claiming they voted for it? Because they did not. Anything else you post is nonsense.
Posted by: tierra | May 15, 2010 9:30:49 PM
Ha ha. I said “And they voted against the prescription… No wait they actually wanted more benefits.” You misread my statement in your haste to stalk me.
Everyone makes so much of the plan and forget that before the plan was passed, the Dems actually wanted one with even more benefits. What a bunch of hypocrits!
Nonsense? I think not. I’ll give you the last word – not that I have a choice.

Now you’re talking straight delusion.
Hundreds of thousands of jobs were being lost EVERY month under Bush – at times over 700,000.
Oh sure, its Obama who’s made a mess of things.
Posted by: tierra | May 15, 2010 6:11:34 PM
Jobs lost 2008 (Bush) – approx 2.6 million
Jobs lost 2009 (Obama) – over 4 million
Posted by: For The Record | May 15, 2010 9:30:57 PM
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Again you show your shallow analysis.
1) Obama wasn’t sworn in until January 20th – surely you’re not thick enough to attribute January’s job losses to Obama policies? Are you?
That’s 600,000 job losses you can add onto Bush’s total and remove from Obama’s.
2) Obama acted VERY fast and the ARRA bill was signed into law in mid-February and while implemented quickly did not take effect to turn around the economy in days.
That’s another 600,000 jobs lost while Obama had been in office for less than a month.
Anyone with the smallest of conscience would not attribute those job losses to Obama being president for 4 weeks!
So, there is an additional 1.2 million Bush jobs lost for a total of 3.8 million. And Obama’s total comes down to 2.8 million – with the situation improving.
Most thinking people would attribute jobs lost in March to the Bush economy as well. And probably April and more.
But that would be fair-minded people – and we have come to know what to expect from your lot.

The FACT is that the evidence for anthropogenic climate change is well documented and has been accepted by every scientific society in the United States and most national academies of science throughout the developed world. That you cannot come to grips with this and toss out meaningless acronyms does not change that FACT. Even if one or two data points occasionally come into question, that is the way science works. Just because you CHOOSE to BELIEVE that a single questionable datum destroys decades of careful and validated research, does not make it so. So – I’m done with you. Rant away at will.
Posted by: JustTheFacts | May 15, 2010 9:04:17 PM
Good on ya.
To paraphrase George Monbiot, those who don’t give a fig about science tend to maximize the importance of the trail of wreckage created by the climate change related email hacking and the talking points of denialist sites.
The problem with the denialists is, of course, that even if one excludes every line of evidence which could possibly be disputed such as the proxy records or the computer models the fact of the matter remains that the evidence for manmade global warming would still be unequivocal. The evidence is right there in the measured temperature record, which goes back to 1850; right there in the shrinkage of glaciers and the thinning of sea ice; right there in the responses of wild animals and plants and the rapidly changing crop zones.

Specter is going to to anything for a paycheck with whom ever pays it,bought and paid for

Interesting how Obama campaigned by railing against an aggressive foreign policy in the Middle East
Posted by: EPU | May 15, 2010 10:27:04 PM
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He did not.
Obama campaigned on increasing the troops and the conflict in Afghanistan – and in fact alluded to the necessity of moving the efforts into Pakistan.

I love reading the libs revisionist history fantasy. Once the Dems took over Congress everything went south. Bush was a poor second termer, but going from bad to absolutely horrendous is not going to help the dems come election time. All the spin, blame passing, and finger pointing(which they seem to do more than 6 year olds) cannot hide their utter and corrupt incompetence with the economy and society in general.

Specter is on his way out!!! PA can do better than this RINO Turncoat Democrat.
Say hello to all the people you and Obama put in the unemployment lines with your failed socialist policies!!!

tierra wrote: “Not very ‘strong’ at all – it collapsed like a house of cards and took a lot of our money with it – and a lot of money from people who were about to, or hoping to retire. ”
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Paul Kanjorski, Democrat from Pennsylvania on C-SPAN… “On Thursday [Sep 18 2008]at about 11 o’clock in the morning, the Federal Reserve noticed a tremendous drawdown of money market accounts in the United States to the tune of $550 billion was like being drawn out in a matter of an hour or two. The Treasury opened up its window to help. They pumped $105 billion in the system and quickly realized that they could not stem the tide; we were having an electronic run on the banks. They decided to close the operation, close down the money accounts and announce a guarantee of $250,000 per account so there wouldn’t be further panic out there. ”
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Where did the money go… who did this… what Republican policy that you speak of contributed to this? Someone wasn’t trying to influence an election…. were they?

From February 2001, Bush’s first full month in office, through January 2009, his last, total U.S. nonfarm employment grew from 132.5 million to 133.5 million, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s an increase, obviously, of just 1 million.

I love my country, I am affiliated with no political party. Both parties share guilt because they represent political machines destined to keep them in power and feeding at the trough of public funds. They are parasites that have placed our nation in grave peril. They don’t have the guts to describe the financial pit they have propelled us into. My two senators and representative still bring federal funds to the state as if there were available funds, they just don’t get it. Because such deception is being promulgated by the administration, the congress and the media I have chosen some simple words to describe the situation. Words that every citizen needs to hear but won’t unless these simple truths go viral. As we continue the plunge into debt, a plunge that may already be beyond recovery please read and consider my simple words, I have nothing to gain other than our nation!
On the street it seems that people just can’t grasp the severity of the nation’s financial crisis thus still turn to the government for bailout. There always seems to be one more worthy need for bailout but facts dictate that our government is in no position to bail anyone out and our constitution offers no hint that it should do so. My representative voted to raise the debt ceiling because the government needed to pay its bills. What a crock, raise the ultimate bill to pay bills? But politicians while getting their raises and their expensive “perks” do some crazy things adding to the “nanny state” mentality many have been misled into accepting as the norm.
If you had a brother so fiscally irresponsible that his unfunded liabilities were double his net worth could you of clear conscience ask him for assistance knowing that he would have to borrow 43 cents of each dollar he gave you? This is the situation with “big brother” so we must shed our “nanny state” mentality and tell our representation on “the hill” to stop spending and to just say no to any pork for our district or any other district or state.
I performed an oversimplified calculation to see what would be required to pay down the current level of debt. Assuming the interest rate to remain constant at two per-cent for 50 years is a part of that oversimplification. If the budget were balanced yesterday (fat chance) and we began to pay a half trillion dollars per year (approx one quarter of total revenue) on the debt it would take 50 years to pay off the debt.
So far I have only heard Obama speak (no action) of reducing the deficit. A reduced deficit only means we are charging less, the debt would still be increasing just at a slightly reduced rate. Obamacare is touted as the Rx for the deficit, but it failed to address Medicare “doc-fix” so that was a gross misrepresentation (especially considering current CBO estimates). It was also a ruse as I find many on the street do not understand that deficit and debt are not the same thing. Since the Obama/Pelosi/Reid triad are marching on a track that will continue trillion dollar plus deficits as far as we can see there is little hope that the debt can be paid down in 50 years, or in 100 years, or ever, for that matter.

So far I have only heard Obama speak (no action) of reducing the deficit.
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Nonsense.
Obama has put together the first bi-partisan deficit reduction commission that is tasked with delivering specific recommendations in terms of spending cuts and tax increases.
He made it bi-partisan so neither party could play politics and finger point over the suggested reductions or taxes.
It’s an essential step, and its been put in motion.

progressive mama — now you’re going to start with the Chicken Little “global warming” fairy tale?
Dear, there hasn’t been any “warming” in — what? — something like fifteen years?
I live in the midwest; we’ve had just about the mildest spring. It’s just lovely. Come to think of it, the seasons have been coming and going per the usual routine.
“Climate change” — yeah, get real. Spewing your cutesy little lib terms like “denialists” doesn’t change the fact that you True Believers are the ones bucking reality.
Get a hobby. Anything is better than wringing your hands over a sky-is-falling hoax clearly designed to usurp wealth and power.

Bush’s average unemployment (even with 9-11 and Katrina), 5.5%.
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Unfortunately Bush left an economy in virtual free-fall collapse. Major banks and financial institutions failing, the stock market crashing, upwards to 700,000 people losing their jobs each month, foreclosures and bankrupcies through the roof, major American auto companies collapsing . .. . a complete mess.
I suppose that is President Obama’s fault.

unfortunately Bush and the republicans tried several times to avert the default swap crisis crated by the Clinton Administration.
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Nonsense.
Bush and the Republicans had control of the presidency and the congress for SIX years – any failure of governing is a result of their own incompetence. They can’t blame it on anyone but themselves.

unfortunately Bush and the republicans tried several times to avert the default swap crisis crated by the Clinton Administration.
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Nonsense.
Bush and the Republicans had control of the presidency and the congress for SIX years – any failure of governing is a result of their own incompetence. They can’t blame it on anyone but themselves.
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And in fact, Republicans had the majority in both chambers of Congress FOR OVER 10 YEARS – basically from January 1995 to January 2007 and the Presidency from 2001 to 2008.
Any failure of governance is their own failure.

Folks, wise up. Neither political party is supportive of your ideas about government. They both work for the same master, corporation and other special interest organizations. There’s only one solution, repeal of the 17th amendment and restoration of the balance of government, as intended by its founders.

Yeah, yeah, yeah the GOP had the WH for 8 years. B4 that Clinton had it for 8 years. The one thing that cannot be debated that during this time period we never felt our country was on the verge of becoming a socialist stae. That can no longer be said as the current admin. is changing America to be more like Europe. What a scary thought that is. On our current path we will be like Greece in 10 short years. Wake up people, stop looking at the government to solve all of life’s problems. You cannot have a free life with the ability to do what you want when you want if you are beholden to the government for life’s basic needs. Stop voting for those that care not about our freedoms. Finally, how can you expect one who grew up living off the government (Obama) to do anything but make government bigger? The man knows no other way of life and therefore, will change your life, and not for the better as he puts forth his dream of the perfect socialist government.

Arlen Specter is not owed the Senate seat that he is in and he is not entitled to it. It looks to me that Obama is just doing a payback favor for Specter for his party switch and a few Senate votes that he needed which seems to be the usual Washington type of politics that Obama campaigned against back in 2008.
If Specter wins the nomination, then Pat Toomey will more than likely run ads of Specter being endorsed by Bush in 2004, being endorsed by Obama in 2010, and then saying that Specter will do or say anything to keep his Senate seat even if he has to become a completely different person to do it!
Joe Sestak is the better and more electable Democratic Senate candidate in my opinion.
Mitch
Dallas, Texas

So the Democrats of Penn. have a choice: The guy who has flipped parties twice and issues several times for his own political self interest or the liberal admiral who was fired from the Navy. Sounds par for the course in a Democratic primary.

Put a fork in him…………He’s done!!

It’s obvious that Obama is secretly trying to help Sestak by coming out for Specter, seeing that his endorsement has been the kiss of death for any candidate receiving it.

OFA (and to a lesser extent Obama)are causing a self damaging rift in the coalition which elected Obama and other progressives. Very disappointing that they don’t have the sense to stay out of it and let the candidates settle it within PA.

tierra said “at least the Dems seem competent” Really? Your definition of competent and mine are two totally different things. Neither party is competent. Neither party is there to make things better for the average person. They want everyone to be dependent on the government. Being a member of Congress was not intended to be a full-time job according to the Constitution.

I have been “represented” by both of them . Each is a self-serving liberal slug. Joe Sestak is the most boring person in the world. His “virtual meetings” would put a crackhead to sleep.
Neither of them represent their constituencies. Sestak represents the suburbs of Philly and he did his town hall meetings in ghetto churches in the city of Philadelphia. He is a fraud.
They removed Arlen’s last functioning braincell with xrays many years ago. He is old and decrepit.

The people of PA must make a decision. Both of them are bent on destroying America. They along with the Pretender to the Throne are creating a Cradle to the Grave Society otherwise known as SOCIALISM. Socialism will lead to Facism. It took the Roman Empire 400 years to disappeaer. But the America we know is disappearing before our eyes. WAKE UP AMERICA!! Most Americans cannot see the forest from the trees. We have become a Third World, Banana Republic lead by a man who wants to be EMPEROR!! GOD HELP AMERICA!!

Most elected politicans are only concerned with re-election and creating wealth for themselves. Close to 40% of the Senate are millionaires. They are not interested in the situation faced by all LEGAL Americans. Many come nto office “poor” but leave as very wealthy individuals. Democracy is a wonderful system but it has been corrpted by the politicans of both parties. The Founding Fathers mst be turning over in their graves. This administration is determined to dismantle the U.S. Constitution. The First and Second Amendments will be destroyed. Freedom of Speech is under attack and the Right to Bear Arms will be taken away by the Pretender to the Throne under some phoney pretext. We will be told it is for”our good” and that the Govt. knows whats best for us!! BIG BROTHER WANTS TO CONTROL EVERY ASPECT OF OUR LIVES. Gorge Orwell in his book 1984, predicted this over 50 ears ago. Go read his book and then Cry for America.

Obama is a liar.

The Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee have NO BUSINESS taking sides between two Democratic candidates in a Democratic primary campaign!!! Especially when on the side of Arlen Specter, a politician as craven as they come.
As Jake Tapper wrote, Arlen Specter only quit the repub party when it became clear he would lose to his repub primary opponent. Arlen Specter does NOT have the best interests of Democratic primary voters at heart. The only one Arlen Specter has the best interests at heart is….Arlen Specter. Shame on you, President Obama, for supporting this craven and unreliable politician.

Specter cares only for himself. This self serivng horrendous little man mest go!
Vote the corrupt power loving little freak out of office!!!!!

Arlen Sphincter is interested in self preservation, nothing more. It’s time to remove all these self serving sleaze-balls and elect people that actually care about the preservation of this country; people that will stand up and call out Obama for the socialist scum that he is.
The future of our children and grandchildren depend on getting this country back on course and not going deeper into debt with more massive entitlement programs that we can’t afford.
Obama has made it abundantly clear by calling on only the minorities to support him; to rally behind him in November. It’s clear Obama is not interested in unity, only division and is willing to use any and all lies, deception and fraud to secure the votes he needs to survive and continue pushing his socialist agenda.
This November it’s time we wipe the Obama scum from the bottom of our shoe once and for all. Remove anyone that is pro Obama anti-America and let Obama know that he can either pull his head out of his A$$ or he also will be removed.

Anyone from the Obama campaign working ANYONE’s campaign will only spell disaster, as they plant charges that take out the underpinnings of anyone’s campaign. Regarding Benedict Arlen, I say “keep using Obama”.

are they going to ask those angry people that cling to there religion and guns???….. Elite lying hypocrite

Funny how ultra-rightists praised Specter when he was Republican; but how they deride him when changed parties! He is no hypocrite, rather his switch was a frank confrontation the Gop went to right and is losing its balance. Rather the double-player is Mccain who said he was a liberal maverick during his past run , but is now a radical now.

Funny how ultra-rightists praised Specter when he was Republican; but how they deride him when changed parties! He is no hypocrite, rather his switch was a frank confrontation the Gop went to right and is losing its balance. Rather the double-player is Mccain who said he was a liberal maverick during his past run , but is now a radical now.

Will you liberals get over calling yourselves “progressives” please? You people are *not* about progress and freedoms and liberty at all (except that sole thing that’s so important to you people – privacy in the bedroom and gay rights). There is nothing “progressive” about forcing everyone to buy government health care; there is nothing “progressive” about taxing the successful more and more and redistributing wealth to underachievers; there is nothing “progressive’ about taxing corporations so much they move jobs overseas; there is nothing “progressive” about wanting to punish American and businesses with the Algore junk science global warming “cap and trade” tax.
You sir, have absoltely no idea what you’re talking about, everything you’ve listed is actually the definition of progressism and has been since its inception 100yrs ago.
And for all the particulars you list, is why it must be defeated, the naked authoritarianism of progressives is there for all too see if they just read history. Both Mussolini & Hitler’s Joseph Goebbbels cite early American progressives as their inspiration.

Why do “Progressives” think that going towards Europe, a model of thousands of years IN THE PAST is the future???
Its never worked before and we are all sitting back, pacing out the popcorn and watching as Europe collapses into itself because of its social nanny-state ways. Greece was not a fluke, Spain, Ireland, Portugal and Germany as heading down the same “money pit” sink-hole of debt and destruction as Greece.
Interestingly, Greeks who come to the US, setup their own restaurants, deli’s and stores — to get away from their socialist for-fathers, are some of the hardest working people you can ever find… they understand, respect and conform to the great free market, capitalist model of the United States…
despite Barney Frank, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Chris Dodd’s attempt to destroy our economy – we as Americans are resilient and are pulling ourselves back out of this disaster they caused, even against Obama’s agenda of destruction of our economy with his focus on everything BUT fixing it – with his empty promises, false fixes and flat out lies… we just need to hold out strong – take back both houses in November and do a major course correction and put this Lame-Duck Socialist President on the bench for 2 more years and get a Center-Left or Conservative President back into the White House and undo all of the massive damage that Congress, Obama and the Progressives have done to this great country – we will prevail !!!

Posted by: a citizen | May 16, 2010 1:19:43 PM
You can easily see which campaign promisess the President has kept and which he hasn’t on polifact – his record is very good. Not perfect (what person is?) – but very good.

I’m a PA voter who voted for Spectre in the past. When he supported the Obama bail out plan that spent over a trillion $ to save his Goldman & Sachs friends who supported his campaign, and the bail out of the Automotive Unions by propping up GM, I sent him an email telling him I would never vote for him again. I’m sure many others in PA did the same, as he changed parts shortly after he voted to burden my children and their children due save a few that made poor decisions. Why would anyone vote for people that have hurt the future of our children? I don’t care what party, if someone votes to make their present situation more comfortable by forcing our children to pay for it, they don’t deserve my vote!

Progressives should be more aptly called regressives. There is nothing progressive about their policies of big government, wealth redistribution and economic destruction. Buh-bye, Arlen.

Posted by: Glenn
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Then you agree we need to get rid of that lying fraud?

This administration has been over it’s head from day one.
Posted by: longawaiting
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He’s darn sure over his head out there in the Gulf. I’m waiting on him to fabricate another new reason as to why that happened.

Tschmy9,
I don’t recall a whole lot of Republicans praising Arlen specter when he was a Republican. He was a very liberal Republican, and actually had started out as a Democrat. He merely has come home to his original party. Did he switch to Republican from Democrat because his party had gone too far to the left?

per Carlo: Dear, there hasn’t been any “warming” in — what? — something like fifteen years?

I am positive some hinky things have happened and are still happening. I’m equally as positive that bald-faced liars, The Moonbats & Al Gores, and those screaming ‘the sky is falling’ will only make it worse given the chance. They should start all over and stick to the truth this time!

while Bush was in office we had good employment.the house and senate were controlled by the Dem’s for the last two years.the housing collapse was caused by Barney the queer.

Obama knows how to pick a winner, doesn’t he!!!

VOTE OUT ALL INCUMBENTS. STOP THE CORRUPTION.

What is this? ABC is taken over by the female gender. Whether you realize it or not, ABC’s perspective on the news has gone from biased to completely out of touch. How can such a great news organization be controlled by staff whose favorite pastime is going shopping. No real world understanding. Women are only interested in other women and that is painfully becoming obvious.

& Al Gores
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conversation ender (blah, blah, blah)
All they’ve had to do is tell the truth. They can’t do that about the simplest things. They feel they have to lie to the “folks”. Their groupies knowingly repeat those lies then insult the “folks” when they ask legitimate questions. Then they can’t imagine that “folks” don’t trust a damn word they say. The “folks” know something’s up but they are sick and tired of the lies and hysterics.
All they’ve had to do is tell the truth.

@smartlillena
I don’t care your reasons but you seem to hate him as much as intelligent people.

@progressive mama,
Speaking of Australia.
Ian Plimmer did an exhaustive study of global warming using ice core data. He is a geologist. His brillant book shows how the entire global warming fiasco is a complete joke.
He has challenged Gore and several others to a debate but they refuse.

Speaking of Australia.
Ian Plimmer did an exhaustive study of global warming using ice core data. He is a geologist.
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Yes, I’ve read Heaven and Earth, and the long and pointed critiques of the book as well. For a quickie rundown see Tim Lambert’s “The science is missing from Ian Plimer’s “Heaven and Earth”‘ at the Deltoid blog.
Incidentally, he’s the director of three mining companies and he only seems willing to debate non-scientists, but not answer questions or criticisms.
The Guardian (UK): “Plimer has refused to answer a series of questions put by George Monbiot about specific claims he makes in the book, but our interview gave me the opportunity to put some of those – and others’ questions – to him.
I found him to be one of the most difficult and evasive interviewees I have spoken to in my career, frequently veering off on tangents rather than answering the question I had put.
Strangely, Plimer was only vaguely aware of the criticisms that have been levelled at Heaven and Earth and appeared to have little interest in dealing with them. He gave me the impression that engaging with his critics was beneath him. That seemed to me an odd attitude for a scientist to take…” (James Randerson)
(See also Tim Lambert’s post “Plimer exposed as a fraud” at Deltoid.)

Posted by: JustAnne | May 16, 2010 11:47:26 PM
As a NASA engineer, what did you think of Plimer’s book? Honestly? Are you claiming to be an engineer and to not understand the problems with it?
lol

Specter is the perfect example of a politician that cares less about the people. He is a self serving pig!

Give it up…Spector’s political career is toast!!!

I’m thinkin that only dead people or immediate family members are going to vote for Specter.
How could anyone feel good about voting for that fool?

ProMa, I don’t buy all this Man Made Global Warming Hogwash. I am a huge supporter of alternative energies. That new large storage battery they are working on with the 10x life span of what we currently have looks very promising. Dr. Grey doesn’t believe in MMGW and there some scientists in, I think it’s Norway or Sweden, which think it has more to do with the amount of clouds which they think has a correlation to how many cosmic rays hit the earth. Albedo is a factor and I’m sure the Sun’s output matters a great deal.
We will move to alternatives but we aren’t there yet.
We don’t have to treat MMGW as some sort of emergency though.
That is just political posturing to get the stupid Cap and Trap legislation through.

Why would anyone want to read Tim Lambert, as people say his isn’t honest and skin crawling obsessive.