Brother Dickhead-so good of you to post again-your thoughts should always to welcome
How about some posting about chicas or a good restaurant or bar. You are the master of cost-effective mongering in BA. Newbies-this is the guy to listen to HE KNOWS HIS STUFF.
It Aint Over Till The Fat Lady Sings Guys
Dick Head makes some good points but I believe the election will be too close to call until late on election night baring some unforeseen major event, be it good or bad for either side.
If you look back at other elections, the incumbent always sees a rise in his popularity as the other party's presidential candidates attack each other. All the incumbent has to do is remain in the back ground and at least give the impression of being presidential, so Esten I would not start counting the election won at this point.
I do think the election will turn into a dog fight late this summer and Obama's current above 50% approval rating will plummet as the election nears.
Where is why :
1. Gas prices continue to rise and will be at or above $4 / gal before the election, you will see plenty of ads quoting Obama's US Secretary of Energy Steven Chu 'somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe' as they continue to force the American public 'Green' by choking off domestic production via regulation and red tape. XL Pipeline anyone?
2. The Catholic Church contraceptive issue is not going to go away, as one case filed on behalf of a Catholic institution has already been granted a temporary injunction prohibiting the Fed from implementing it. This will be a wedge issue which will cost Obama badly needed votes come November.
3. Obama's continued treatment of Israel as the 'red headed step child' is already costing Obama votes in the Jewish community and the administration's further demands for Israel to refrain from defending itself will only accelerate the loss of the Jewish vote.
4. Obama will suffer a reversal of fortune in the Supreme Court at the end of June or first of July as the individual mandate is found unconstitutional.
5. The companion case to this regarding severability will most probably come out against Obama as well since trying to insert a 'severability clause' into the legislation after it was written, enacted and signed into law is futile and will result in the entire law collapsing.
6. Unemployment will come back to haunt Obama as the masses lose their Unemployment Benefits they are now turning to Disability which is paid by the Social Security Trust Fund.
A. When granted disability they are removed from the 'unemployment rolls' but added to the already overburdened social security disability rolls, FYI the Social Security Trust Fund is scheduled to go bankrupt in 2018.
B. By the way 5. 3% of all Americans now receive disability payments from the Social Security Trust Fund. The number approved for disability has increased 18% since 2008 and continues to accelerate.
C. This manipulation of unemployment numbers and disability numbers will be another negative for Obama
7. Once the GOP primary battles are over, the GOP candidate will turn all that attention on Obama and his record.
Have a good day
But my drea mr D. Voting for mr rick or mitt the automaton who will be anything the data suggests
Newt is a pig, but at least he has soul and isn't boring. Mitt just loves the height of the trees in michigan and lakes, lots of lakes. He drove a mustang-wowwie zowwie a mustang-
Sarah pallin on the 40th ballet, is the only one left standing. She gets herman's and rick perry's left over delegates delegates and mr rick's by promising to campaign on her daughters being taught to never use condoms during their home schooling. Public schools teach the youth of america about ungodly things like condoms.
While this goes on and the world stratches it's head-Obama will open up an annex of the the governmet printing office to set-up exrtra printing presses in the White house to keep-up with the demand for more $$. He moves michelle and the girls and 47 secret service guys into trailer park and he pays less taxes than warren buffet's secretary.
Only in the USA
This is a political Thread!
[QUOTE=David_33;421075]"Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong." Rousseau, Jean Jacques[/QUOTE]We are allowed to be colourful here [blue][Deleted by Admin][/blue]! Read the political threads and stop sounding like a [blue][Deleted by Admin][/blue] everytime I post. Esten and I are friends [blue][Deleted by Admin][/blue] and colourful exchanges have dominated this and the other political thread for years. As most liberals on this board you do not address the facts of my post. So I guesse you are now an expert on the Balkins. LMAO. Suggest you stay off these threads unless you want to discuss the issues and not whine about the form of my posts here. Trust me, Esten wasn't offended. Now go out and save some whales or continue your lecture series on internet chat board etiquette.
Happy Mongering All,
Toymann
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Oil exports driving US supply down?
Hey Toymann that's cool. If you think that article implies Obama created those jobs (even though it does NOT claim this) , fair enough for you to point out some of those jobs were probably set in motion before Obama came along. If Bush had something to do with them, good for him, he did a few things right as I've said before. You guys should really stop calling him evil and saying everything was his fault.
The 'direction' of my post and that article, is to put the lie to the claim some Republicans are making that Obama is stifling oil & gas development. Jobs are increasing, rigs are increasing, production increasing. Those are the facts.
Now it was very interesting listening to Bill O'Reilly today. Recently he has had a rare, apolitical discussion of something, in this case what is causing the high price of gas. In fact he acknowledged production is up, and US demand is down due to the mild winter, so the high price contradicts the laws of supply and demand. Basically the take away was that the oil companies are exporting the oil, in turn reducing the US supply, driving the price up. If this is true, increasing production further (as Republicans want) is not necessarily the answer to driving the price back down. O'Reilly then goes on to suggest something surprising (from a conservative) : Obama could ask Congress to raise export taxes on oil companies, to encourage them to sell more oil in the US (thereby driving down price).
That's an idea worth discussion. Republicans won't likely get behind it though, given their earlier vigorous opposition to ending tax loopholes for Big Oil, and the ideological positions they have dug themselves into on taxes and 'government meddling' in the private market.
