What A Show Last Night At The DNC !
The Democrats in charge decided that the blowback from taking God and Jerusalem out of the Democrat platform was too much, and moved to put them back in. Below you can watch the hilarious event where the Democrats clearly vote no, and the chair says, “Let me try that again”….and again! In the end he just ignores the “Nay” votes and pretends the majority said “Yay.” Which is pretty typical of Democrats today. Just ignore the will of the people.
So telling, and so embarrassing.
Sandra Fluke, with her smug face and ridiculous narrative, where Americans are supposed to believe that anyone wants to take away a woman’s birth control, was laughable. She is 30 years old. In an expensive private law school, and WE are supposed to PAY for her birth control??? I don’t think so. Pay for it on your own, and take as much as you wish. Democrats can have Sandra Fluke for a role model. We will take Mia Love, who spoke at our convention, who at 30 yrs old wasn’t still in school asking for Americans to pay for her birth control. She had graduated, was married, with two kids, and elected to Sarasota Springs City Council, a springboard to be mayor. Of course the pathetic irony is that someone like Fluke and Elizabeth Warren, who claim to speak for women (certainly not women like me), would speak at a party convention that honors men who have used women their whole lives, Clinton and Kennedy.
Bill Clinton was the star of the night as he went on and on, speaking about how great Obama is, but not before he told you how great he himself is. He is a skilled speaker, no doubt. He was so charismatic that he might make you forget that as President he lied to the American people, cheated, used women, and was impeached. At least he makes the Democrats forget. But for so many of us, we don’t forget. He was very good last night at lying about Pres. Bush’s record. You see, he says that four years just isn’t enough time for Obama to set things right, and that Bush didn’t do that great either. But the truth has always been a hard thing for Clinton to grasp. During his Mepalooza, he forgot the stone cold truth:
In the wake of a recession that began roughly seven weeks after President Bush took office, America experienced six years of uninterrupted economic growth and a record 52 straight months of job creation that produced more than 8 million new jobs. During the Bush presidency, the unemployment rate averaged 5.3 percent. We saw labor-productivity gains that averaged 2.5 percent annually — a rate that exceeds the averages of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Real after-tax income per capita increased by more than 11 percent. And from 2000 to 2007, real GDP grew by more than 17 percent, a gain of nearly $2.1 trillion.
As for Obama’s claim that Bush “turned a budget surplus into a deficit”: by January 2001, when Bush was inaugurated, the budget surpluses were already evaporating as the economy was skidding toward recession (it officially began in March 2001). Combined with the devastating economic effects of 9/11, when we lost around 1 million jobs over 90 days, the surplus went into deficit.
Rather than whine incessantly about the situation, President Bush proposed policies that triggered the kind of sustained growth that saw the deficit fall to 1 percent of GDP ($162 billion) by 2007. Indeed, before the financial crisis of 2008 – which I’ll return to in a moment — Bush’s budget deficits were 0.6 percentage points below the historical average. (My former White House colleague Keith Hennessey eviscerates Obama’s assertion that we faced a “decade of spiraling deficits” here).
Now let’s consider Mr. Obama’s record: an unemployment rate of 9.5 percent, with 131,000 jobs lost in July, during our so-called Recovery Summer (Vice President Biden promised us up to 500,000 new jobs a month back in April). The overall unemployment rate, incorporating people who want jobs but did not look during July, is now 16.5 percent.
According to J.D. Foster, Obama’s “job deficit” — the difference between current employment and the jobs Obama promised to create by the end of 2010 – stands at a staggering 7.6 million workers. The 2010 deficit is $1.471 trillion, or 10 percent of GDP, while the debt is $9.2 trillion, or 62.7 percent of GDP. (From January 20, 2001, to January 20, 2009, the debt held by the public grew $3 trillion under Bush, from $3.3 trillion to $6.3 trillion; in 20 months, Mr. Obama will add as much debt as Mr. Bush ran up in eight years.) And let’s not forget that the Obama administration passed an $862 billion stimulus package and assured us that unemployment would not exceed 8 percent; instead, unemployment topped 10 percent – a figure higher than what the Obama administration said would occur if the stimulus package wasn’t passed.
Sales of new homes collapsed earlier this year, sinking 33 percent to the lowest level on record (new home sales rose in June from May’s historical low, but the overall pace was still the second slowest on record, the Commerce Department reported.
Trying to get a snake charmer to rewrite history will not cover up the dismal failures of this administration. It just won’t.
Then Clinton has to play the race card for states simply asking for ID to prove who you are before you vote. The truth is that Republicans want voter ID to protect the integrity of the vote:
In his speech last night, Bill Clinton shamelessly played the race card in an attack on voter-ID laws. He veered from a discussion of the economy to say “If you want every American to vote and you think it’s wrong to change voting procedures just to reduce the turnout of younger, poorer, minority and disabled voters, you should support Barack Obama.”
His timing in attacking efforts to combat voter fraud couldn’t have come at a more ironic time. Just yesterday, a Democratic state legislator in Clinton’s native Arkansas pled guilty along with his father, a West Memphis police officer, and a West Memphis city councilman to a conspiracy to commit voter fraud.
Democratic representative Hudson Hallum was part of a conspiracy to bribe voters in three separate elections in 2011.
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At one point, Hallum told Philip Wayne Carter, the city councilman, that “We need to use that black limo and buy a couple cases of some cheap vodka and whiskey to get people to vote.”
So, which party is really denigrating the black vote again? I think that is pretty clear. Read the whole piece.
There was a lot of the class warfare talk, with Elizabeth Warren claiming the “game is rigged.” As Mona Charen said, Maybe she is right that the “game is rigged.” The top 5 percent of taxpayers pay 58 percent of income taxes.” As much as the Democrats try, they can’t change that simple fact. The rich do pay more in taxes.
The lies continued yesterday with DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Shultz. She went on national news saying that a conservative newspaper had deliberately misquoted her saying that she never made the claim that Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren had said that Republican criticism of Obama is “dangerous for Israel.” Philip Klein of the Washington Examiner columnist who claimed that, posted audio showing exactly what she said.
She said,“We know, and I’ve heard no less than Ambassador Michael Oren say this, that what the Republicans are doing is dangerous for Israel,”
The world of audio and Youtube have not served the Democrat’s well. They used to be able to claim they never said something, and the willing media would play along. No more. We may not have the mainstream media giving the truth it’s due, but at least there is a way to get the truth out there, and that’s something.
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Kathleen, I think both parties need to refrain from proclaiming “Who’s The Biggest Liar”. Both parties do a sizable amount of lying at these conventions since they are basically cheerleader fests. These conventions are about whipping up enthusiasm to get folks to vote for their “guy”.
I have some serious issues with President Obama and his approach to the economy. BUT I haven’t seen anything from Mitt Romney that is SO groundbreaking that it just overshadows Obama. That’s what the Ol’ Mitt needs to concentrate on.
Me? I’m a third party voter till whenever…
What a shame that right above this brilliant essay one sees the headline:
Very unfortunate and detracting…
I’m sure the KM contribution makes wonderful sense in the alternate universe republicans inhabit these days. Alas, from my own simple and down to earth perspective it comes across merely as tribal and bitter.
I thought the Israel etc ‘vote to nowhere,’ might distract Repubs so that they’d be perseverating on that ad infinitum, and lose their actual lead by nattering about things our nation is not taking a vote on, and that arent in the forefront of their minds. Not sure all understand, we out here arent interested in the namecalling and derison second voice and tertiary person. We need minute facts about what the Repub platform really is, all of it, and line by line specifically.
Looking across some of the blogosphere this a.m. seems that a lot of Repubs are a-talkin’ about the ‘isreal vote’ and how Clinton is a — fill in whatever namecalling.
Meanwhile, the actual Dem campaign will go on elsewhere. It’ll be interesting to see if Romney steps up to lead his own campaign, and tells the kids to knock it off, there are far more important things to support in/via the Repub platform.
Let’s try that again. That was real hoot. Clinton is a better speaker than Obama and you can’t see his nose grow while he speaks. The Giant’s were so bad and there were a gazillion commercials that I flipped back and forth.
Fluke isn’t one, she is a well rehearsed advocate for as free as possible birth control and abortions. So am I, but I think people should pay if they afford it. I see no harm in fewer unwanted pregnancies, and it saves the system money to boot.
I am an atheist, so I support the dispensing of magic markers to remedy a certain word from our paper currency. Coins will have to have a little masking tape until the government issues new coinage with Bill on one side and Monica on the other.
I’m all for referring to “the capital of Israel” instead of having to use a city name, like “the capital of the U.S.” See no problem.
I would have preferred to watch the Giant’s win, but Romo cut them up worse than Clinton cut up the Reps. Oh, well that speech will keep Polifacts busy.
FactCheck.Org – Our Clinton Nightmare
Posted on September 6, 2012
Finally I can put my dos centavos in.
Kudos, Dr. E. You covered the subject at hand so politely, subtly and yet so effectively — as usual. Yo quisiera poder ser tan diplomático.
ps Should the thought occur, I am not trying to “lick Dr. E’s boots.” In the first place, Dr. E probably does not wear boots, and if she does, they surely don’t need licking.
Secondly…I forgot, perhaps for the best
The article you posted definitely massaged and distorted the data. The truth is that Bush’s signature economic achievement, those tax cuts, did next to nothing to improve the economy. The deficit and debt definitely exploded under his watch. Further, Bush had just as big a hand in inflating the mortgage bubble as Clinton did.
I wouldn’t want Bush to hog all the credit from other politicians like Dodd and Frank.
Funny, now they have a humongous bill named after them and it doesn’t do diddly about FNMA and FMAC. And, yes, no one went to jail.
“Sandra Fluke, with her smug face and ridiculous narrative”
Oh, was she “hysterical” and “screeching”, too?
“In an expensive private law school, and WE are supposed to PAY for her birth control???”
Yes, just like “you” (ahem, evidently “you” are now the insurance carrier…)pay for her fellow students’ medicines. Just like my student insurance policy paid for mine, and yours probably paid for yours, previously. BTW, all schools, public or private, are expensive these days.
“Rather than whine incessantly about the situation, President Bush proposed policies that triggered the kind of sustained growth that saw the deficit fall to 1 percent of GDP ($162 billion) by 2007″
Yes, by 2007, at which time all that growth was fully eaten up by the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression, because all that growth was built on a house of cards. If I go out and sign up for as many credit cards as I can, then spend the next 5 years maxing them out to buy all the trappings of wealth, that doesn’t actually mean I earned that money or the BMW and dripping diamonds and fine furniture I bought, particularly when they come to take all that away. “Sustained growth”? Puh-lease. And the idea that somehow Bush was not a whiner makes me giggle. If there’s been a recent president who had the skill of whining down pat, sorry, but Bush was it. He was great at smirking, too.
I’m totally with you on that one, dduck.
Ok, I will be the first one to confess that I didn’t watch too much of either convention, but I am wondering what I may have missed besides the Afghanstan war and God and Jerusalem.
Was there a lot on mega-magazines for weapons/ What did they say about the worst drought in decades and the ethanol regulation and high corn prices and such. Who knows what else I missed.
“Bush’s budget deficits were 0.6 percentage points below the historical average.”
Hmmm… as I recall Bush had lots of “SUPPLEMENTAL” budgets… I don’t believe he included the hundreds of billions of dollars of the wars in the budgets he presented to Congress. He went back to Congress… a REPUBLICAN Congress with his hand out asking for more money which he received.
“Democratic representative Hudson Hallum was part of a conspiracy to bribe voters in three separate elections in 2011.”
Explain to me how voter ID laws would have prevented this?
For the record, I do think we were due for an economic correction at the end of Clinton’s term / beginning of the Bush term. However what 9/11 did was to make that correction into a “recession”. I don’t blame Bush for that.
However I DO blame Bush for how he handled things. He cut taxes and increased spending, including conducting a 100% war of choice in Iraq (I supported Bush in his foray into Afghanistan). At the end of the Clinton term we were on our way to pay down the debt. Bush and the Republicans said that deficits don’t matter. I remember that at the time of the Bush tax cuts many people knew that the national debt would be a problem in coming years. Guess what? These people (many of which were liberals) were 100% right.
I also believe we would have had a housing crash regardless of who was in office. Clinton’s policies didn’t help matters much, but the aggressive Bush policies and further deregulation pushed us over the edge and made things worse. And because Bush and the Republicans did not think deficits mattered and dismantled the sensible polices left at the end of the Clinton term (bipartisan policies I’ll note) the country was in horrible shape. Had the Clinton policies remained in place our country would have been prepared to handle a major hit to the economy.
It’s funny that Republicans under Bush wanted to spend spend spend and they did so with gusto. And they took apart the government’s safety net to help the nation during crises. Yet we all know that in our daily lives we need to save and have sensible policies for a rainy day. The Republicans grabbed “public” money (especially during the Iraq war) to give to their friends. The Republicans don’t seem to respect that money and appear to use government money as a child would use their parents’ money to buy whatever they wanted… until the parent put a stop to it. Unfortunately there are no parents in the Republican Party who put a stop to the excessive spending of the Bush years. That’s why I think having two parties in power and willing to negotiate / give-in is important. If both parties are responsible then they act as a check and balance. However the Tea Partiers don’t believe that. They have a litmus test that’s either 100% pass or 100% fail with no room for any other ideas nor compromise. That’s why I support Obama… his goal is to help the American people. His goal has never been to “make sure the Republicans are not re-elected” as the Republican goal is towards Obama and has been since before Obama took office.
I know I am whistling — not something else — into the wind, so I don’t expect a reply.
But just in case, Ms. McKinley, I saw the following comment on another thread:
Now, not being a woman I am not very familiar with the “women’s issues” brought up, and not needing the V-stuff (although I suspect many Republicans along with Democrats use that stuff — get taxpayers’ help in buying it), I plead ignorance on that issue,too. But I would certainly be interested in your views on these matters.
DDW, insurance companies will cover whatever you designate in the insurance contract, and drugs like Viagra and Flomax, which many males need, require a copay (not free).
In contrast, whether the insured, say a religious organization, wants to cover contraceptives is now not up to them even though they say it is against their religion. Not only that, but I believe it must be free. I happen to think that is a good idea to keep unwanted pregnancies to a minimum which winds up costing the plan more money. My point is don’t blame the insurance companies, they are just following the conditions in the group plan contract.
What A Show Last Night At The DNC!
Yes, indeed it was. Full of positive vibes instead of the gloom and doom we got last week.
“The top 5 percent of taxpayers pay 58 percent of income taxes.” As much as the Democrats try, they can’t change that simple fact. The rich do pay more in taxes.”
This is one of the most irritating lines of reasoning that I keep hearing from the conservatives. Obviously income disparity is a huge problem. And even thought the very top of the scale(read: Romney level rich) have shown they pay mostly in the 15% cap gains bracket, the top 5% still manage to pay 58% of the taxes. Conservatives take this to somehow mean that the wealthy are being fleeced, because they are bad at analysis, instead of highlighting the extreme problems with the distribution of wealth in this nation and how that is crippling the economy and the GDP. How do you make your point to people that can take data that totally highlights the flaws in their own talking points and confuse it with supporting material?
dduck it seems to have become a Democratic Party meme that men get Viagra free with no questions asked. I’d like to see Politifact comment on that. The truth is many insurances, including Medicare and Medicaid (depending on the state) do NOT cover Viagra, Cialis or Levitra, and the ones that do cover it require the usual co-pay which for many plans is $50 or higher.
I would send the above article to Poltifact, but I’m not sure they would believe it was written by anyone who was serious.
DG, yup an inconvenient fact. Clinton said Reps want to give the $716 million to the insurance companies. Well, not so fast:
According to the CBO, the payment cuts in Medicare include:
A $260 billion payment cut for hospital services.
A $39 billion payment cut for skilled nursing services.
A $17 billion payment cut for hospice services.
A $66 billion payment cut for home health services.
A $33 billion payment cut for all other services.
A $156 billion cut in payment rates in Medicare Advantage (MA); $156 billion is before considering interactions with other provisions. The House Ways and Means Committee was able to include interactions with other provisions, estimating the cuts to MA to be even higher, coming in at $308 billion.
$56 billion in cuts for disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments.* DSH payments go to hospitals that serve a large number of low-income patients.
$114 billion in other provisions pertaining to Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP* (does not include coverage-related provisions).
*Subtract $25 billion total between DSH payments and other provisions for spending that was cut from Medicaid and CHIP.
In total, Obamacare raids Medicare by $716 billion from 2013 to 2022. Despite Medicare facing a 75-year unfunded obligation of $37 trillion, Obamacare uses the savings from the cuts to pay for other provisions in Obamacare, not to help shore up Medicare’s finances.
http://blog.heritage.org/2012/08/01/obamacare-robs-medicare-of-716-billion-to-fund-itself/
Depends on what is is.
“. Operating at a loss means these facilities are likely to cut back their services to Medicare patients or close their doors, making it more difficult for seniors to access these services.”
As it is doctors, like one of mine are already dropping Medicare patients and certainly not accepting new ones.
that was funny dorian, made me laugh out loud. I do wear boots and drive a boss pickup. But also heels and flip flops… and and. But someday our families will have some maté together and toast the fact that we are all ss/ still standing. Thanks dorian. siempre.
You spew about Ted Kennedy’s accident where a woman tragically lost her life…do you remember that Romney was also driving the car when a woman was killed in wreck in France…
None of us where there…. none of us know what really happened…the Republicans continue, after 40 plus years, to use the tragic incident as the sole definition of Senator Kennedy… That kind of littleness is sad…
I bet if one where to put Romeny and Kennedy privately in a room to discuss these sorrows of their youth, they would not be showing ‘smug face and sneer’ and saying; ‘Except for the grace of God, there go i’…
No matter how much i disagree with the politics of Mitt Romney, am confident they would both look at each other and say; ” There go I.”
Romney Car Wreck and death of woman
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/24/world/europe/24iht-24Romney.6300715.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
Ted Kennedy and Mary Jo Kopechne
http://articles.nydailynews.com/2009-08-26/news/29436277_1_storied-political-family-senate-seat-mary-jo-kopechne
Kathleen all to often, ” Except for the grace of God ” mind set reeks with religious arrogance…..but those that i have lived through it often find that there shattered hearts, has room for so much more than endless pettiness and blame/shame cyle….
correction:
” Except for the grace of God” mind set reeks with religious arrogance, but those who have lived through such an incident that shattered their hearts have room for more than the endless pettiness of those on the blame/shame cycle…
Ted Kennedy is not on the ballot. He is dead. Romney is on the ballot and should be thankful of the French socialized medicine which brought him back from the dead.
This bugged me, too.
However, I am totally glad Medicare Advantage was gutted. It was a wasteful program.
Sparrow, re: the Romney car wreck, if that had been a democrat at the wheel the conspiracy theories coming from the right would be out of control by now. As it is, most democrats probably don’t even know about the story. I’m sure McKinley doesn’t care about that, nor will she address any of the other comments here. Post and run.
KM @” WE are supposed to PAY for her birth control??? ”
Reminder for KM: Fluke was advocating for access to birth control under employers’ insurance plans, not government-subsidized contraceptives, when she received the hate spew from Rush.
Ms. Fluke was not advocating for your ‘WE’ to pay for her birth control. She advocated for collective women’s rights…never did she say the gov. needed to pay for her birth control…