YellowLinesandArmadillos

P.S. Conservative Editorialist, talk show host, George H.W. Bush administration appointee, and master of ceremonies for George W. Bush in 2004 Michael Smerconish, Bush is endorsing Obama too, while dissing Palin not being ready to serve. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-smer...d_b_135916.html

Scary that McCain has gotten sucked into the our America v. their America debate with Palin leading the charge. I thought it was "United We Stand, Divided We Fall" This is not leadership, this as Noonan emphasized a recipe repeating the disaster that is and was George Bush, Dick Cheney and the assorted Neo-Cons.

What is a few Billion among friends, just quoting Chris Matthews tonight on MSNBC. Either way it is a shi#$@3 load of cash with little or no oversight.

It is called USA AID and the State Department combined with CDC and the Foreign Ag Service. You can deny it, but this is and has been under Republican watch.

Oh Please, so you Republicans are communists... whatever, we are spending $3 billion a day on Iraq, just spent what $750 Billion on Wall Street and yet none of this is paid for. More borrow and spend till the US goes bankrupt. The Republicans are spending us into the stone age. Sounds like what the Soviet Union did before their demise. So Obama wants people making over $250,000 to pay a little more, while providing a stimulus tax break for those making less, which will only end up back in those making over $250,000. Republicans are irresponsible governors. I can't believe I am able to say this because of their mantra of fiscal responsibility has gone in the dumper and McCain has supported it at least 90% of the time.

Pelosi's day is coming. The right is vilifying her, yet she keeps giving them ammunition. I know a lot of Dems grumbling under their breath. She plays for keeps at the Congressional level, so folks tread lightly on the inside, but I agree she has largely been ignored. If Obama wins, that probably won't happen anymore and I can see her taking the fall for what ails the Dems. Like I said, her days are numbered. I can't stand her and her shrill holier than though self righteousness. The thing that keeps her going is great staff that are able to douse her fires and avoid bringing attention to one's she has started. The old tree in the woods deal... they hope no one is there to here it fall.

There is no space for write ins.

Biden was talking to supporters, but I guarantee the next President will be tested by an international incident no matter if it is Obama or McCain. So does that make me nuts. No, got there by joining this board.

Because labor doesn't control the Democratic Party and I am not sure there would be enough votes from the Dems. Plus, it is one thing to talk about and another to face their own mortality in Congress. The repigs would beat them on the head with this until the cows came home. The reason we did not see any real anti-abortion leg during a Republican controlled Congress.

I could see a lot of lawsuits on this one, but the right wing ought to love it. They would finally get equal time on all the so called liberal media. The problem and suits would come as a result of defining who represented each side or a different side. Sounds like a cluster.

Framed that way, this leg is a problem. I have only read anecdotal stuff about it, but would be hard pressed to see something like this make to the President under any circumstances without a major battle.

Agreed and I knew that when I wrote the previous post, but there is a political and communications problem that prevents it from happening. Something about the State and County level that allows this crap to fly under the radar screen making it hard to ID the perpetrators and address the problem. My problem is however, not with funding the services, but doing so in a streamlined cost effective manner. Most of these services that the state provides would not be provided by the Private sector with any kind of broad based coverage, but they are necessary... school funding, police, fire, roads, consumer protections, prisons, unless the private sector can make huge profits at the expense of tax payers. Not sure there is a good answer, but I do believe that keep both the public and private sector off guard by both auditing and switching the power base of the funding sources every once in a while would be a good thing.

B: I agree, but that doesn't seem to stop them, right now we have had 8 years of deficit and spend. I agree with the premise, but we should have a balanced budget pay as you go amendment including for military spending. Nothing should be exempt from having to pay for it requirements. It would keep everyone a lot more honest. However, that would go against your first statement and is part of the Constitution: Article 1, Section 8. We all contribute to: The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States. The bolded part can be broadly interpreted and is. Sorry.

As long as this were done for payroll taxes, i.e., medicare and SS, I might agree. Interesting thought though. If overall taxes were reduced, that might be great. But then you would be stuck with huge state and local liability who are affected by a lot of unfunded mandates. 33% adjustment for me is pretty significant and I am not even in the top income bracket.

If you read my post clearly, you would not that these folks do pay payroll taxes and that could be where the break comes from. And as for the rest, folks that make enough to itemize can already write off their state taxes, including real estate, sales taxes on their property purchase, and mortgage interest on their fed, so what is the big deal. Should we close that loophole too? According to your logic, they are getting a gift. See if that goes over well

If Obama gets in and I am not saying he will, but if he does he will have to govern from the fiscal middle or else he will be done in two years. Pelosi is a concern, however, you don't know what you talking about when it comes to Reid. He is one of the more moderate Members of the Senate. His comments in Iraq are based on the fact that we are still there how many years later after "Mission Accomplished" I am still not sure we won anything with this war except to waste a lot of tax payer dollars, you go one believing that things are going swimmingly over there. Things are better, but we have by no means won. If we had, how come we can't pick up and leave today??? Oh that is right, things will plunge into ciaos and the terrorists will return, which mean we haven't won anything, just bought a little time.

Tax cuts for corporations do... Folks with a less amounts of money have to spend it right away to make ends meet, it immediately goes back to those big corporations increasing dema.nd for the goods they produce and you get the bump in the economy like we had with the stimulus checks in the spring. Please, that comment and McCain's recent one's doesn't even pass the Republican smell test From a political standpoint, tax credits (breaks) for individuals who don't pay income tax because they don't earn enough, but do pay lots of payroll taxes, sales taxes,and property tax Republicans along with McCain say don't deserve a tax break? That is a pretty incredible and stupid political statement. Now if I am lower middle class like discredited Joe Plumber and I see this, I really wonder about the McCain plan.

Powell's endorsement is interesting. Powell specifically criticized McCain's choice of Palin as unfit to lead. He had to say this in not about race because not addressing that fact would be ignoring the pink elephant in the room. What as sec, if we had done that with Bush, we might not be in the same shi$#% we are in now. Though we would be donkey sh#$%5, oh well. Republican's will likely try and dismiss it, newspapers will try and amplify disgruntled Republicans over Palin's choice. Powell still is defending Bush and Cheney to an extent and yet still criticizing "us". He thinks that Obama will govern from the center. Hopefully if he wins that will happen.

Someone on that thread labeled her a Kodak Brownie. That about says it, she is only skin deep after that, if wins and McCain kicks the bucket we would have to impeach her to get real leadership.

Ah give us more credit, we might be saying some of that, just like you are about Palin, but in private we would be ducking our heads and wincing. Only true believers get out and cheer for this kind of crap. All I suggest if she gets into office is duck and cover!

Wimpy Repig whiners. Even Palin last night on SNL has more balls then the rw posters on this board.

I think there a number of Republicans hoping this besides just the Romney crowd, but the read meat Ohio Republicans love her....

Nah, both of them were speaking in tongues.

That is good, violates a Doctors Hippocratic oath, what are you going to do arrest the Doctors???

I am sorry to hear that about your niece and you should have probably contacted your local Congresscritter's office. It is amazing what their young staff can do in these kind of cases. That being said, MA requires everyone to buy health insurance and those that can't afford do so at a reduced rate. We require all farmers who receive government funds to buy crop insurance. It is subsidized on both ends and heavily regulated, because of which it doesn't cost the tax payers huge amounts. However, it was hoped that it would help eliminate disaster payments, but those Rich Republican farmers keep coming to the government with their hands out for one issue or another. Speaking of welfare dependents. Use to be a joke on the Hill both for farmers and natural disasters... how do you balance the budget... end disaster bailouts... including this latest one for Wall Street. But for all these so called free marketeers it is amazing how Keynesian they become when their as*&^ (rear end) is on the line. Show me a free marketeer and I will show you the biggest beneficiaries of government largess.