The Many Faces of US Politics...

[stew]

Tell us Stew: Where would we be now had McCain won?

How would McCain have dealt with the budget deficit? President Bush left a baseline 1.2 trillion deficit for the 2009 fiscal year (yes, Obama increased it).

Actually the budget deficit has not increased under Obama.

http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/federal_deficit_chart.html

The largest deficit was in FY2009 the last Bush budget and has been lower each year since.

Obama increased it by about 200 billion for 2009, including the stimulus.

And to correct an earlier post, it was Bush's penultimate budget that was about .5 trillion. His earlier ones were lower.

Of course, however, Bush didn't include the wars in his budgets.

You lying sacks of shite.........thank God you dont get to vote!!!

[dec]

Tell us Stew: Where would we be now had McCain won?

How would McCain have dealt with the budget deficit? President Bush left a baseline 1.2 trillion deficit for the 2009 fiscal year (yes, Obama increased it).

Actually the budget deficit has not increased under Obama.

http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/federal_deficit_chart.html

The largest deficit was in FY2009 the last Bush budget and has been lower each year since.

Obama increased it by about 200 billion for 2009, including the stimulus.

And to correct an earlier post, it was Bush's penultimate budget that was about .5 trillion. His earlier ones were lower.

Of course, however, Bush didn't include the wars in his budgets.

You lying sacks of shite.........thank God you dont get to vote!!!

I'll be voting but New York isn't a swing state so it won't matter too much.

[J70]

Tell us Stew: Where would we be now had McCain won?

How would McCain have dealt with the budget deficit? President Bush left a baseline 1.2 trillion deficit for the 2009 fiscal year (yes, Obama increased it).

Actually the budget deficit has not increased under Obama.

http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/federal_deficit_chart.html

The largest deficit was in FY2009 the last Bush budget and has been lower each year since.

Obama increased it by about 200 billion for 2009, including the stimulus.

And to correct an earlier post, it was Bush's penultimate budget that was about .5 trillion. His earlier ones were lower.

Of course, however, Bush didn't include the wars in his budgets.

You lying sacks of shite.........thank God you dont get to vote!!!

I ain't lying and I DO get to vote. As with Dec, however, I'm in NY which Obama will walk.

Urging my mother to vote in FL though!

[stew]

Tell us Stew: Where would we be now had McCain won?

How would McCain have dealt with the budget deficit? President Bush left a baseline 1.2 trillion deficit for the 2009 fiscal year (yes, Obama increased it).

Actually the budget deficit has not increased under Obama.

http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/federal_deficit_chart.html

The largest deficit was in FY2009 the last Bush budget and has been lower each year since.

Obama increased it by about 200 billion for 2009, including the stimulus.

And to correct an earlier post, it was Bush's penultimate budget that was about .5 trillion. His earlier ones were lower.

Of course, however, Bush didn't include the wars in his budgets.

You lying sacks of shite.........thank God you dont get to vote!!!

I ain't lying and I DO get to vote. As with Dec, however, I'm in NY which Obama will walk.

Urging my mother to vote in FL though!

Good, get her to vote three or four times like the dems usually do in swing states and see what happens!

[NetNitrate]

Might have been posted before but this chart from Washington Post clearly shows that it was Bush tax cuts and the cost of the Bush wars that increased the deficit. Were Ros Perot running for election, he'd surely bring a chart to show this in the debates.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/files/2012/09/Parfait-using-debt-gdp-2001-2019-5-12-11-FINAL.jpg

[Eamonnca1]

Might have been posted before but this chart from Washington Post clearly shows that it was Bush tax cuts and the cost of the Bush wars that increased the deficit. Were Ros Perot running for election, he'd surely bring a chart to show this in the debates.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/files/2012/09/Parfait-using-debt-gdp-2001-2019-5-12-11-FINAL.jpg

Yup. And just when you got used to republicans [edited by Mod3] claiming that the world is 6000 years old, now we have to re-adjust to hearing them act as if it's  just under 4 years old.  It' as if this debt and the clusterfuck in Iraq (now universally acclaimed as the biggest foreign policy blunder since Napoleon's invasion of Russia) just fell from the sky and Obama should have been able to snap his fingers and undo the mess in a single term.

[Declan]

Interesting endorsement of Obama from the main paper in Salt Lake city which I'd have thought would have been very much in the Blue corner
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/opinion/55019844-82/romney-obama-state-president.html.csp

[stew]

Might have been posted before but this chart from Washington Post clearly shows that it was Bush tax cuts and the cost of the Bush wars that increased the deficit. Were Ros Perot running for election, he'd surely bring a chart to show this in the debates.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/files/2012/09/Parfait-using-debt-gdp-2001-2019-5-12-11-FINAL.jpg

Yup. And just when you got used to republicans claiming that the world is 6000 years old, now we have to re-adjust to hearing them act as if it's  just under 4 years old.  It' as if this debt and the clusterfuck in Iraq (now universally acclaimed as the biggest foreign policy blunder since Napoleon's invasion of Russia) just fell from the sky and Obama should have been able to snap his fingers and undo the mess in a single term.

You you ever off an uncle, go to the Funeral and change your mind on God again
Quit bringing faith into everything you write ffs, a broken record has more personality!

[stew]

The last debate is tonight, c'mon Romney, put that Kenyan in his place.

Squeaky bum time for the dems...........................game on!

[Gaaboardmod3]

stew, enough. You know better than that.

Eamonn, really? Another feud? Your own namecalling is as bad. Can you not engage without causing a riot?

[Eamonnca1]

No bother, Mod. I have him on ignore now too. I'll tone it down though.

[stew]

Interesting endorsement of Obama from the main paper in Salt Lake city which I'd have thought would have been very much in the Blue corner
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/opinion/55019844-82/romney-obama-state-president.html.csp

Two newspapers who have not endorsed a republican since 1972 have switched and are not firmly in the Romney, the biggest one is 'The Tennessean'.

This thing is very close and I hope that Romney hammers BO on Libia and on the lies, subsequent cover up and his miserable record as President of theses United States.

[Rossfan]

I hope that Romney hammers BO on Libia and on the lies, subsequent cover up and his miserable record as President of theses United States.

And that will solve all ye're problems 

Jasus but you're some harmless gom 

[Declan]

[Oraisteach]

Debates' Score

Obama 2  Romney 1

Unfortunately for President Obama, he lost the crucial one--the first, but tonight he won handsomely.