***Official Obama Screwed the Pooch Thread***

[snoopdan 5,000+ posts]

Fuck it, I need a job. I'll apply.

 

[newusername 10+ year member]

I think Gregg's quitting highlights the biggest fib told in the election season: no one is ready for anything non-partisan, especially in such uncertain times. The uncertainty makes us less willing to experiment, and more likely to cling to what we're comfortable with. Just my amateur psychologist's guess.

 

[audiolife 5,000+ posts]

Reid and Pelosi can't even agree on agreeing.......Its pretty funny actually. When they vote on this bill no one voting will know more than 5 pages. It is now over 700 pages and wont be ready to read until 1 or 2 am tonight and they are voting on it tomorrow. Good thing Obama will have it up on a website for 5 days....AFTER THE VOTE...AS IF THAT MATTERED. They are just pushing this through so noone can actually see it.

 

[newusername 10+ year member]

Well these are largely the same people who didn't read the report on WMD's, voted in support of Bush's WoT over and over again, then blamed Bush to gain a new term. They know that reading now doesn't matter if they can point the right fingers a few years down the road.....

 

[audiolife 5,000+ posts]

Well these are largely the same people who didn't read the report on WMD's, voted in support of Bush's WoT over and over again, then blamed Bush to gain a new term. They know that reading now doesn't matter if they can point the right fingers a few years down the road.....

The bill is not even in print YET:laugh:

 

[newusername 10+ year member]

So I guess I'm not current enough on some things....

They're considering a new program for subsidizing mortgages that people will be eligible for EVEN IF THEY HAVE NOT MISSED A PAYMENT! So now you can make up some bullshit hardship story and get help even if it isn't clear that you need it. I mean....it's great that they figured out a plan for appraisal and eligibility....but where in god's name is this money coming from?

 

[duece212 5,000+ posts]

So I guess I'm not current enough on some things....
They're considering a new program for subsidizing mortgages that people will be eligible for EVEN IF THEY HAVE NOT MISSED A PAYMENT! So now you can make up some bullshit hardship story and get help even if it isn't clear that you need it. I mean....it's great that they figured out a plan for appraisal and eligibility....but where in god's name is this money coming from?

Nothing makes me a happier home owner than helping somebody else pay for theirs //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

 

[bunkerking09 10+ year member]

The bill is not even in print YET:laugh:

I hope they don't make copies o it at my UPS store, its over 15 inches thick now //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/confused.gif.e820e0216602db4765798ac39d28caa9.gif

dats alotta copies

personally, i think they should make a copy of the entire thing and mail it to every household so we can look through it.

 

[WhoSayWho? 5,000+ posts]

I think Gregg's quitting highlights the biggest fib told in the election season: no one is ready for anything non-partisan, especially in such uncertain times. The uncertainty makes us less willing to experiment, and more likely to cling to what we're comfortable with. Just my amateur psychologist's guess.

It looks more like a man who determined that he could not hold the position because he could not support the President to the degree he should without abandoning his ideas. I don't think of that as partisanship, but rather integrity.

 

[DBfan187 5,000+ posts]

http://www.aprilwinchell.com/wp-content/cache/supercache/www.aprilwinchell.com/2009/02/05/barack-obama-is-tired-of-your-motherfucking-shit//index.html

 

[duece212 5,000+ posts]

honeymoons over

The Dow is now down 24% year-to-date, while the S&P 500 has fallen slightly less since the start of the year. The Nasdaq is down almost 17% for the year.
Meanwhile, the S&P 400 Mid-cap Index and Russell 2000 Small-cap Index are showing year-to-date losses of 23% and 29%, respectively.

Worse yet, the Dow Jones Transportation Index is down 36% for the year, and the Amex Airline Index is down 47%.

 

[mattf 5,000+ posts]

Aren't all Obama thread about things that he screwed up? Haven't seen him do many great (or good. or mediocre.) things yet.

 

[audiolife 5,000+ posts]

What is pathetic is Obama and the Dems do not want the regular folks to watch the markets or jobs. They create sideshows to divert attention like with Rush and them going after Bush and Rove. What is funny is he is going to nearly at least bankrupt the country in hopes of passing an agenda rather than giving 2 hoots about the economy. Both my parents have lost 25k+ each out of their 401k's and he tells people not to care nor watch? What about his earmark/lobbyist promise? "I will go through with a scalpel line by line..." all bull crap so he can turn the country into a failure state..what is even funnier is the media nor his "fans" are sophisticated enough to understand what is going on.

 

[Blue Fury 10+ year member]

Oh bitch bitch bitch and none of you will do anything about it.

 

[bunkerking09 10+ year member]

I think its interesting how things have worked out locally in the past few years for me.

We elected a black congressman (Emanuel Cleaver) and as soon as he was in office, he made my vote pretty much not count...let me explain.

I live on the border of 2 counties (within 5 minutes) . The county just north of me is Jackson county, and as soon as you cross into it, it becomes MUCH more heavily populated with black people.

I live in Cass county, predominantly white, and also much more "upscale" you could say, compared to Jackson at least.

As soon as Cleaver gets in, they combine our counties for the same precinct (i'm not really sure what its called, but we are now in the same section, both having the same choices on the ballots). So my vote is now basically thrown away because white people are outnumbered 3-1 between jackson and cass county combined.

Cliffs: The black man is holding me down