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To: i-node who wrote (577812)	7/24/2010 3:13:35 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 1575047

"What, exactly, should the states do?" DUH! Raise taxes, moron! Mandates are MANDATES for a reason!

To: i-node who wrote (577812)	7/24/2010 3:17:22 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1575047

"Zach Wamp says if Tennessee will only outlaw abortion, God will give our state new jobs and a booming economy. According to Wamp, God already has blessed the economy of his hometown of Chattanooga for keeping abortion clinics out of the city. "Let me tell you one of the reasons why Chattanooga is a very blessed city today, why we have so much new economic development and why we're really an anointed city," the eight-term congressman said at a Tennessee Tea Party convention this summer in Gatlinburg. "There are no abortion clinics in Chattanooga. We made a decision...Our city is blessed. Our state will be blessed as we remove this scourge and plague of killing innocent children in the womb." politicalcorrection.org

To: i-node who wrote (577812)	7/24/2010 3:18:37 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1575047

What I am seeing is a massive effort by certain states and their leaders to subvert the federal gov't. If it was happening under a R gov't, there would be threats of treason and jail time for those people talking like the way Rs are talking these days. Once again it goes back to the sense of entitlement Rs think they have in this country. Your conjecture is all well and good but you didn't address the question: What is a state that cannot afford these massive unfunded mandates to do? Should they lay off teachers in order to dump that money into Medicaid? Eliminate the bridge maintenance? What, exactly, should the states do? Stop keeping their taxes artificially low for starters. And start eliminating the corruption.

To: i-node who wrote (577812)	7/24/2010 4:41:44 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575047

And this is something to which Rs need to pay close attention.....even with the worst economy in 50 years, Obama's rating is not dropping any worse than other presidents at this stage of their presidency. Imagine what happens when the economy recovers. The Obama Drop and the Obama Paradox [missed section] Now, back to the paradox issue. (See here and here for discussions). Obama has not enjoyed a sustained increase in approval rating in conjunction with the passage of his two landmark legislative packages. So if the hypothesis is that he should have, we can reject that hypothesis. In other words, Obama's triumphs, legislatively speaking, have not translated into triumphs defined as a sharp or even modest increase in his overall job approval ratings. There are countervailing assumptions of course. Given that Americans remain quite negative about the U.S. economy, it might be expected that Obama’s approval rating would drop more than it has. Given the historical record, it might be expected that Obama’s rating would drop more than it has. And, keep in mind that Obama’s sixth quarter job approval rating is not out of range of other presidents in their sixth quarter. As seen above, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and Clinton were all lower in their sixth quarters. So the degree to which Obama's failure to see a rise in his approval ratings can be labeled a "paradox" certainly depends on one’s expectations. pollingmatters.gallup.com