The Note: GOP Losing Ground In Battle Over Deficit

All this proves is people are stupid.

Here is one independent who never felt the republicans would make a difference. They are the spenders who put us into this situation with two unpaid for wars and no restrictions on banks. The banks ruled when they were in power and in the end while they are responsible for this crisis we are in, not one banker has been arrested or held responsible for anything and are still taking home record profits and not giving out loans to the averge guy who wants to start a business or build a home. Now that the republicans are back in power, they want to remove the little restrictions Obama has put in place and are giving corporations thousands of dollars as payback for helping them get re-elected. Gov Walker is a prime example of the overreach of a governor. He never campaigned on killing the unions just to cut the deficit, however, before he did anything else…he gave out 120. mil to corporations as a thanks for their support and that is why the Koch bros. have been paying for the ads to support Walker. He is a creep and he may have won the battle but he has definitely lost the war. The unions are taking their money out of the banks which is causing some chaos in Wisconsin. If the recall succeeds…there will be alot of people looking for a new job. You can push people so far…and this man refused to even talk to anyone to try to work out things..he made a decision and that was that. The unions had already given in on the money but I want to know why is it that everytime there is a financial problem, the little guy takes the hit and the corporations get more tax breaks. In Florida Mr.Rick Scott has a plan to intwo years remove all tax penalties on corporations making them free of paying any tax at all. Why…they are making record profits in a recession. Do you ot see a problem with this picture? It is time for everyone in America, Independents, even some intelligent republicans and lazy democrats who did not fight when they should have to stand up to this or there will only be two types of people left. The very rich and the very poor and the little guy like myself will no longer exist.

In order to balance the budget, 31% of voters favor cutting spending (Republican position) and 3% favor raising taxes (Democratic position), and the author concludes neither side has a winning hand? Hilarious. If nine out of ten agreed with me, I’d say politically I had the winning hand.

Obama is an abject failure and the average American knows that and will not vote for him in 2012. Polls are irrelevant, depending on population size of those polled and mix of people polled it can be skewed to appear what it is not.

Precisely why this country, as a country, is in very serious trouble.

I don’t know how anyone could feel good about anybody. There has been trillions spent but we have such pitiful growth from the debt that was created. Taking a few billion here or there isn’t going to cut it. As one politician mentioned last week , get real, we are talking trillions, taking in about half of what we spend so trimming isn’t doing much of anything.
And TAlMAZG has a point. At a time when profits are really good-very little hiring more outsourcing- take a look at where the Government revenues come from. Most of it is from personal income taxes while corporations provide a small percentage. Yes the Government is too big, they need to spend less but we need to fund what is being spent and run the rascalls out of time who stand for the more of the same.
Looks like someone needs to look at revamping the tax code and getting a better plan for future entitlements but I doubt any of these guys have the courage.

Odd, when polls say what parisan-posters want, they use it as thier arguement. When polls are different than they’d like, well, they are “skewed”.

Republicans’ budget agenda is to continue to give money to their Lord and Master Big Oil, through subsidies and tax breaks, while America and her children decay. These Oil Lords and Knights for Big Oil, care less that the People pay their salaries and healthcare, but with large payouts from Big Oil, who needs the peoples’ money!
Republican legislators think that the Mentally sick should be placed in Siberia (something Stalin actually did) and illegals shot down like pigs! Haley Barbour’s social secretary makes insensitive Jokes about the heart-wrenching devastation in Japan, and had to resign, but what kind of humanbeing could think that situation is funny?
It looks as if they are beginning to show their real and true Colors; Dark and Murky Lords everyone of them….
The media in Wisconsin went to interview one of the Republican State Senators and his wife said he no longer lived there but lived outside the District with his mistress; that their maid already signed papers for his recall and that she planned to do so too!
Check this out! – WI Repub lives outside district with mistress, says wife http://shar.es/3OtxB

It will be real simple come 2012. After the Obama administration added over 5 trillion dollars to the national deficit in 4 years, voters will be voting for anyone but Obama. This will be especially be true if much of America is working at jobs making less then the ones they had in 2007 before the crisis. Oh, and no high paying jobs has got to be caused by the all them big Republican companies like GE, IBM, Cisco, and Apple who have been outsourcing jobs for years. Apple even states it on their packaging, Designed in CA, Manufatured in China. Most of GE’s wind turbines are manufatured in China. Cisco owner of Linksys builds all the Linksys products in China. Even GM has been slowly outsourcing the stamping die building to China, just ask any Tool and Die shop in Michigan and they will tell you. Lot of thier work now id the repair of China stamping dies that don’t hold up under use.

ALL politicians are too worried about being re-elected. The result of this is that politicans will vote for what gets them re-elected as opposed to what is actually the right thing to do. Entitlements need to be addressed. It is a sad truth that the retirement age needs to be raised to atleast 70 to recieve social security (for people 50 or younger). Medicare costs need to be addressed through means of perscription prce controls, doctors price controls, and insurance pricing regulation. All program costs need to be addressed through costcutting and streamlining. Welfare needs to be reformed possibly by making people work to recieve it. In addition, there needs to be mandatory drug testing and check ups to verify that people who recieve welfare are not wasting it. There are many other programs that need to be addressed that include farming and oil subsidies. Not only will cutting be necessary, but raising taxes will be necessary. ALL tax breaks need to be rolled back. The tax code needs to be re-written to make the tax system more efficient. One of the tax priorities that needs to be addressed is the corporate tax structure. Corporste loopholes need to be closed and taxes need to be lowered to make America competitive. Give your input if you have anything to add.

ABC and the pollsters continue to miss the point. And it’s happened so often, that one wonders whether the miss is on purpose. “Independents,” respond to the GOP question from the standpoint of what they actually voted for (the “swing”) in mid-terms. They didn’t vote for a party as much as they voted for a position. And those of us who want even deeper cuts and immediate action regarding the overturn of Obamacare and implementation of stronger anti-illegal immigration laws believe the Grand Old Party stalwarts want to continue practices that helped get us in this mess. BOTH parties are guilty of poor management of this country and independents voted for new commitment to old ideals. We’ve yet to see this message get to either the old-timers (except for those who have now announced their retirements)or party loyalists. Accordingly, we are mad at the GOP in general. It certainly does no good to get mad at the liberals since the only way we can change their thinking is to replace them with a true conservative.

I doubt after the dabaucle in Wisconsin that people willbe so free to vote republican again. They feel deceived and know that it was the republicans who are responsible. While Obama has taken the hit for the economy…which he did not cause…he still have put forth many good things. Ask the guys in the auto industry if they hate Obama…I doubt it because if the republicans were in charge…we would not longer have the success of the auto industry which he saved over much criticism and along with the auto industry there were many small business’ related to the auto market like glass, steele, carpet, tools, leather, rubber, anything relating to putting a car together has been saved along with the auto industry and they are ready to pay back when was a loan not a give away. Have the banks paid back????? Let’s not sell Obama short because while you may not think the health care bill is perfect ….it is better than what you would have gotten under the rep. rule. They want to kill this bill so that the insurance companies can once again rule the roost. Once again throw you off when you get sick, refuse your child if she/he has diabetes, or charge you$700 per month. And while the unemployment figure is not perfect, either, it is going in the right direction despite the refusal of the rep. party to invest in infastructure which will help jobs. While they are killing the union, the parental planning (which reduces pregnances), taking away women’s rights, s.s., medicare and medicade…firing police and teachers…ask yourself “is this really what our country needs…more unemployment”?

Go Barack !

The income gap between the rich and the rest of the US population has become so wide, and is growing so fast, that it might eventually threaten the stability of democratic capitalism itself.
That is a quote from the chief Libertarian free market worshiper, Alan Greenspan.
The unrelenting myopic Republican belief in tax cuts at the expense of the Middle Class and the poor has brought us here.
Eight years of tax cuts DID NOT create any more than 3 million new jobs under GW Bush. The lowest on record, even during a housing bubble. Yet, during the Clinton era under higher tax rates, the economy built 23 million new jobs.
Why do Republicans cling to this idea that tax cuts and spending cuts are the ONLY way to fix our economy?

ABC forgot to tell you that they those polled also were also big fans of Charlie Sheen and American Idol.

That’s why ABC is called the ALL BARACK CHANNEL. If he goes down in polls they have to prop him up.

First: Republicans caused the Deficit during the entire Bush and Cheney reign while denying that there was a recession, with Cheney in interviews constantly saying that the DEFICIT DOES NOT MATTER. Second: the minute Obama was sworn into office, the Republicans Demand that the news media and the American People have to take the blame away from the Republicans and blame Obama for the Recession. Third: Now the Republicans are Demanding that the Deficit does matter. IS ANYONE PAYING ATTENTION TO THE REPUBLICAN HYPOCRISY?

goddess…my 51 yr old brother lives with me as he is unemployed, my 30 yr old son lives with me obtained grants to finish a a masters when he became unemployed and all the taxation in the world wont change that. consindering how much money the govt wastes in these tight times any tax is almost too much.
perhaps we need change our behavior as a people. who would have ever thought we would all drive cars or have computers or the internet or flat screens or droids or i pads. we are living so so much better and more advanced than previous generations regardless of wealth. me thinks the liberals in hollywood have an awful lot to do with our misery of today.
liberals look at percentages and conservatives look at dollars. as with any revolution when the rich lose their heads nothing changes and the same misery that existed before only gets worse because the most productive people are no longer here. look at russia china etc. which is worse jealousy or greed?
japan is a great example of people who dont care about what someone else has.if there situation occured in the states there would be looting and riots.

Yes, I think that the GOP being too cozy with Tea Party types has scared a lot of independents away.

I see the Republicans as the lesser of the two evils—-I see Republicans, especially Baggers, AS EVIL. They have this power grab and they are going full throttle for one thing – pushing their social agenda, so we can ALL have their high teen pregnancy rates, thier poverty, their horrid education rates, incarceration rates and divorce rates and their closet homosexuals who have man sex in bathrooms. They push their social theories even after stat after stat shows what failures they are. Jobs??????? remember? You ran on JOBS, not on forcing teenage girls to have babies against their will. Silly us, for believing you, huh?

You know what really “bothers” me about that independent “number”? The “volatility” of it. I just got another interesting bookm to read entitled “Backlash” by Will Bunch. I am afraid that I am going to find the “answer” to all this “volatility” is that the “educational level” of voters does not MATCH their penchant to be “emotional and reactionary”. I wish more people in the middle class did better reasearch…and just paid attention better to what was going on.

Wow! What a surprise! I was close to voting toward McCain, but went with Obama for the economy, especially when McCain whom I thought to be moderate said there was no problem with the economy, while owning 7 houses. The further we go, the more I see that the Republicans either don’t see, as in their middle, and low income supporters, or don’t care as in their greedy upper income supporters, and politicians. Yes, we still have problems with the economy, but the problem is that the big corporation are still in charge of this country with massive amounts of money supporting their greedy agenda, rather than supporting the country.

Sorry, ABC, I’m a little skeptical of your poll. The November election was about reduced taxes (already accomplished), reduced spending (Dems, $4B is what % of $3.5T?) and reducing the size of govt. How much money is George Soros spending to skew the truth?

PARMA HTS GARY | MAR 15, 2011 1:20:04 PM….And do you believe the unions didn’t spend much on the last election?

What has he done Talmag? he hasn’t done a thing he said he would. The military is in both Afghanistan and Iraq. Gitmo still running. Where is that energy plan? Where is all the world love for us? Do the islamist love us now? All he’s done is pass a health care reform bill that doesn’t actually reform healthcare and that almost two-thirds of the country want repealed. Why can’t you be honest and say he just hasn’t been a good president. That maybe he didn’t have enough experience. Maybe Hillary would have been better. And before i hear it, George Bush was not a good President. OK?

Brian, you quoted the CNN poll and then said “We have all signs pointing to obama being the biggest failure the world has ever seen.” The same CNN poll you quoted also said “the public has more confidence in the president rather than congressional Republicans to deal with the major issues facing the country.” Most people think the republicans are worse than the president you described as being the biggest failure the world has ever seen.

deanbob – The number one issue in the past election was the economy. The number one issue about the economy was the lack of recovery in unemployment. The complaining about government spending and involvement would not have been a big issue if unemployment had dropped substantially. The truth is that it did not matter which party was in charge of the White House and Congress because of the worse recession since the Great Depression and the world going through a crisis also. It was not going to recover until the wealthy and corporations had huge surpluses to risk hiring again. Besides, many were making record profits with fewer workers, so why hire more people.

AngelLight, have you ever actually met a Republican?

Rassmussen polling has no validity
because it is a biased source and partisan. The actual approval for tye budget cuts of the republicans is 36% against the republican cutting program ,not 55 percent. Distorting the valid
features is easy and a recurrent
practice of republican propagandists
online. Honest editors should keep giving the actual figures, no matter
how much misinformers insist.

Rep. Boehener is a dream come
true: let me explain: he keeps
displaying the worst side of the
ultra-conservatives, the part that
upsets voters the most :) May he
continue showing total ruthlesness!
, that will help re-elect President
Obama! hahahhahahahaha. The gop is not
used to getting power, so it is
squandering its political and monetary
fortune :)) May it destroy itselr
by its own weight!

POLLS POLLS POLLS
ABC News/Wash Post 51% Approve 45% Disapprove Obama+6
Gallup 46% Approve 44% Disapprove Obama+2
Bloomberg 51% Approve 43% Disapprove Obama+8
Reuters/Ipsos 49% Approve 47% Disapprove Obama+2
Resurgent Republic (R) 47% Approve 49% Disapprove Obama-2
Rasmussen Reports 43% Approve 57% Disapprove Obama-14
IS Rasmussen JUST AN OUTLIER OR A LAIR?

Hey John, go check Fox News, they have him at 51%, while republicans are at 43.

BARKING SPIDER | MAR 15, 2011 3:30:15 PM posted: “I will no longer support the Democrats”. Why? What makes you think continued tax cuts and budget cuts alone will improve the economy?
And btw, do you work for an oil, coal, or chemical lobby? Boiler rooms full of these neo-John Birchers post unsupported, mind numbingly lock step messages to confirm stories from TV entertainers.