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Space Bar
Joined: 20 Oct 2010
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 Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 2:28 am Post subject: |
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Isn't qualified to be president? That from George Bush? How could anyone be a worse president than George Bush? |
By any chance, have you noticed the president who followed him? BO is George Bush on steroids, fer chrissakes! |
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Hugo85
Joined: 27 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 8:11 am Post subject: |
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| Space Bar wrote: |
| Gatsby wrote: |
Isn't qualified to be president? That from George Bush? How could anyone be a worse president than George Bush? |
By any chance, have you noticed the president who followed him? BO is George Bush on steroids, fer chrissakes! |
As flawed as Obama has been through his 2 years of presidency, he's by far not the trainwreck that Bush was. Step into two costly wars, one of them based on lying to everyone while the other was not finished. Introduce huge unsustainable tax cuts while the economy is thriving due to expire during its successor's term. Watch it's country enter recession. He was also mocked internationally. |
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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
Location: retired
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| Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 4:28 pm Post subject: |
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Sarah Palin:
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I�m deeply concerned about the Federal Reserve�s plans to buy up anywhere from $600 billion to as much as $1 trillion of government securities. The technical term for it is �quantitative easing.� It means our government is pumping money into the banking system by buying up treasury bonds. And where, you may ask, are we getting the money to pay for all this? We�re printing it out of thin air.
The Fed hopes doing this may buy us a little temporary economic growth by supplying banks with extra cash which they could then lend out to businesses. But it�s far from certain this will even work. After all, the problem isn�t that banks don�t have enough cash on hand � it�s that they don�t want to lend it out, because they don�t trust the current economic climate.
And if it doesn�t work, what do we do then? Print even more money? What�s the end game here? Where will all this money printing on an unprecedented scale take us? Do we have any guarantees that QE2 won�t be followed by QE3, 4, and 5, until eventually � inevitably � no one will want to buy our debt anymore? What happens if the Fed becomes not just the buyer of last resort, but the buyer of only resort?
All this pump priming will come at a serious price. And I mean that literally: everyone who ever goes out shopping for groceries knows that prices have risen significantly over the past year or so. Pump priming would push them even higher. And it�s not just groceries. Oil recently hit a six month high, at more than $87 a barrel. The weak dollar � a direct result of the Fed�s decision to dump more dollars onto the market � is pushing oil prices upwards. That�s like an extra tax on earnings. And the worst part of it: because the Obama White House refuses to open up our offshore and onshore oil reserves for exploration, most of that money will go directly to foreign regimes who don�t have America�s best interests at heart.
We shouldn�t be playing around with inflation. It�s not for nothing Reagan called it �as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber, and as deadly as a hit man.� The Fed�s pump priming addiction has got our small businesses running scared, and our allies worried. The German finance minister called the Fed�s proposals �clueless.� When Germany, a country that knows a thing or two about the dangers of inflation, warns us to think again, maybe it�s time for Chairman Bernanke to cease and desist. We don�t want temporary, artificial economic growth bought at the expense of permanently higher inflation which will erode the value of our incomes and our savings. We want a stable dollar combined with real economic reform. It�s the only way we can get our economy back on the right track. |
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/252715/palin-bernanke-cease-and-desist-robert-costa
Didn't expect that from her. |
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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
Location: retired
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| Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2010 6:20 am Post subject: |
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http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/11/12/orion_soros_palin/index.html
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Top Palin aide is on Soros' payroll
Revealed: the surprisingly close link between the liberal billionaire and the Republican superstar Video
Glenn Beck spent the past week denouncing the liberal billionaire and philanthropist George Soros as a "puppet master" who is orchestrating a coup "to bring America to her knees."
Given Soros' alleged role plotting to destroy the United States, Beck and his Fox viewership might be surprised to learn that one of Sarah Palin's top aides has been on Soros' payroll for years.
That would be Republican lobbyist Randy Scheunemann, Palin's foreign policy adviser and a member of her small inner circle. He runs a Washington, D.C., consulting firm called Orion Strategies. Scheunemann and a partner have since 2003 been paid over $150,000 by one of Soros' organizations for lobbying work, according to federal disclosure forms reviewed by Salon. The lobbying, which has continued to the present, centers on legislation involving sanctions and democracy promotion in Burma.
Scheunemann's client is the Open Society Policy Center, a DC-based advocacy group founded and funded by Soros. The Open Society Policy Center says on its website that it "encourages Congress and the Administration to press the military dictatorship in Burma to restore political rights and democracy."
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Scheunemann is known as a longtime neoconservative who pushed for the U.S. invasion of Iraq and for support for Georgia. He has been strongly identified with Palin since he met her while working as the chief foreign policy adviser of the McCain campaign in 2008 (see a classic picture of Scheunemann and Palin doing debate prep here). Since then, Scheunemann has taken on an increasingly prominent role in Palin-land. He traveled with her to Hong Kong for a speech in September 2009. In the second quarter of 2010, Scheunemann's Orion Strategies was paid $30,000 by Palin's political action committee for consulting on "national and international issues." |
Now, I thought that Soros was liberal but here he is employing war mongers who work for Palin. How's that work. |
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recessiontime
Joined: 21 Jun 2010
Location: Got avatar privileges nyahahaha
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| Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2010 6:52 am Post subject: |
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yeah sarah palin is all tough on the fed.
But seeing how nobody takes her seriously, it'll be ignored anyway. People ignored ron paul. Why would they listen to some hockey mom? |
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Madigan
Joined: 15 Oct 2010
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| Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2010 2:25 pm Post subject: |
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Apparently, W. Bush may have voted for Obama.
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| Gatsby wrote: |
Isn't qualified to be president? That from George Bush? How could anyone be a worse president than George Bush? |
By any chance, have you noticed the president who followed him? BO is George Bush on steroids, fer chrissakes! |
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The venue was the Oval Office. A group of British dignitaries, including Gordon Brown, were paying a visit. It was at the height of the 2008 presidential election campaign, not long after Bush publicly endorsed John McCain as his successor.
Naturally the election came up in conversation. Trying to be even-handed and polite, the Brits said something diplomatic about McCain�s campaign, expecting Bush to express some warm words of support for the Republican candidate.
Not a chance. �I probably won�t even vote for the guy,� Bush told the group, according to two people present.�I had to endorse him. But I�d have endorsed Obama if they�d asked me.�
Endorse Obama? Cue dumbfounded look from British officials, followed by some awkward remarks about the Washington weather. Even Gordon Brown�s poker face gave way to a flash of astonishment. |
http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2010/11/bush-i-probably-wont-even-vote-for-mccain/
Well, loyal Democrats and Obamaphiles? How do you like them apples? |
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Gatsby
Joined: 09 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2011 9:59 am Post subject: |
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Apples?
Sure, I like apples. Little green apples. And big, round, red juicy apples.
Speaking of which ...
Have you seen Palin finally has some hot competition for the GOP nomination?
Michele Bachmann is heading to the starting gate for the Big Race.
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WASHINGTON - Fresh off winning reelection and proving she can raise massive amounts of campaign cash, Rep. Michele Bachmann is beginning to consider a presidential run, according to close congressional aides.
As part of that effort, the Minnesota Republican will travel to the early caucus state of Iowa on Jan. 21 to confer with state GOP leaders and address a group of conservative tax activists.
That puts Bachmann in Iowa more than a week before former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who will appear there later this month as part of a book tour that starts in New York on Tuesday. Pawlenty has spent nearly two years laying the groundwork and building credentials for a possible presidential campaign. A Bachmann presidential run could complicate that |
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http://www.startribune.com/politics/112933079.html?elr=KArks:DCiUMEaPc:UiD3aPc:_Yyc:aU7DYaGEP7vDEh7P:DiUs
(I'm so glad they're close. Wouldn't want to quote any distant aides.)
That leader of Lamestreet Media, The Washington Post, is gnashing at the bit, foaming at the mouth, and twitching its tail over the inevitable drubbing their Democrat darlings are going to take when Marvelous Michele takes the reins:
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Michele Bachmann for president. Seriously?!
By Jonathan Capehart
Um, so, y'all know how talk of Sarah Palin running for president can send me into sputtering conniptions? Well, someone has just popped up to share the pedestal with her: Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.). I'm not kidding.
The Star Tribune reports that Bachmann's staff confirmed an earlier ABC News report that she is considering a 2012 bid. "[N]othing is off the table," said press aide Sergio Gor. Bachmann herself addressed this issue with the Star Tribune. "I'm continuing speaking out on the issues just as I have for the last few years," she told the newspaper. "Part of that will include going to Iowa and some of the caucus states. My commitment level remains the same, and that's to making sure that President Obama doesn't have a second term." Well, she does have extra time on her hands, since the Republican leadership blocked her from becoming House GOP caucus chair. |
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2011/01/_um_so_yall_know.html
Yupp, Michele is a real night mare for the Gray Lady's little sister.
I hate to be one to change horses in midstream, but sayonara Sarah! I don't know about you, but I think that Michele Bachmann is MUCH prettier and smarter than Sarah Palin. And she knows lots more about science stuff.
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Bachmann has claimed that global warming is a hoax[37] and has been a vocal skeptic of climate change.[38] She has asserted that since carbon dioxide is "a natural byproduct of nature", it is a beneficial gas required by plant life. She stated that because life requires CO2 and it is part of the planet's life cycle,
Bachmann supports the teaching of intelligent design in public school science classes.[88] During a 2003 interview on the KKMS Christian radio program Talk The Walk, Bachmann said that evolution is a theory that has never been proven, one way or the other. |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Bachmann
This gal really knows her chemistry and biology. She deserves a MacArthur!
Now, Palin is no cerebral slouch, either. Gotta be sharp to have her own TV show and big bucks Fox contract, not to mention her very own Twitter account.
So I would not be averse to these two fast dams hitching up and racing in tandem. Kinda like Wonder Woman and Supergirl. (Even Deep Throat's favorite newspaper thinks Bachmann and Palin are going to "share the pedestal.") That would be one dynamatic duet! Bachmann-Palin in 2012 (followed by Palin-Bachman in 2016?)
How could they lose? |
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