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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (121874)	1/17/2012 4:27:22 PM
From: locogringo	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224748

If the union thugs succeed in Wisconsin, will Obama give Walker food stamps, and will he have to show an ID to get them?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (121874)	1/17/2012 4:29:13 PM
From: TideGlider	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224748

Last week you reported 1.5 million. Is the number going down? lol

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (121874)	1/17/2012 4:41:07 PM
From: longnshort	7 Recommendations Respond to of 224748

and one guy signed the recall 80 times and Mickey Mouse and daffy duck has been allowed. The recall will cost the tax payers 9 million, the dems don't even have a candidate. Wisc. now has a surplus because of Walker and no taxes were raised and no gov workers fired, and you want to recall him. Brilliant, keep up the good work

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (121874)	1/17/2012 6:00:05 PM
From: longnshort	5 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224748

That's an amazing low number, with 1-3000 in state and paid out of state union workers working 8 hours a day making up names and addresses, or copying from the phone book and they only have a million names and they have been doing this since May. Man union workers are one lazy group of people

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (121874)	1/17/2012 9:55:03 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	3 Recommendations Respond to of 224748

Why Are President Obama's Defenders So Dumb? Media Bias: A presidential infomercial posing as a news magazine distorts the record to shamelessly shill for a failed administration. Why do we criticize the man who made the high-speed trains run on time? Political campaigns call it free media: when candidates can make their case and communicate their message through interviews and outlets that don't cost a dime. It helps when a mainstream media sycophant like Andrew Sullivan gets to write a puff piece in Newsweek with the subtle title of "Why Are The President's Critics So Dumb?" The Democratic National Committee couldn't have said it better. Calling the president's critics dumb is not novel, and it's something President Obama and wife Michelle have done often. When ObamaCare was being shoved down our throats behind closed doors, the president said he had simply not made the case clearly enough so that opponents in flyover country, those bitter townsfolk clinging to their Bibles and guns, could get it. Sullivan says it's "not true" Obama "has raised taxes" and that ObamaCare "is much more moderate" than its critics claim. Well, let's start with Obama's raising the federal tax nearly 62 cents on a pack of cigarettes to $1.01, which hits Occupy Wall Street's 99% hard and makes a mockery of the pledge not to raise taxes on those making less than $250,000. Then there are the ObamaCare taxes that took effect right after it was passed though the "benefits" won't appear until 2014. For starters, there's a 0.9% Medicare surtax on wages more than $200,000 for individuals and $250,000 for married couples, along with a 3.8% Medicare tax on investment income. There's the "Cadillac tax" on high-value health plans from which unions sought exemption. There are the individual and employer mandates that require employers to provide or individuals to buy health insurance. So egregious are these added taxes and costs the Obama administration has had to issue 1,200 waivers to favored companies and labor unions supporting the president's re-election. Meanwhile, insurance costs have risen, not fallen, and the promise of health care rationing and doctor shortages looms.