It's official. Obama will be re-elected in 2012. The level of anger agaisnt Republicans from the Ryan budget is substantial and it is hard to see how the Republican presidential nominee will get votes when you hae town hall meetings like this: -------------------------------------- As ThinkProgress reported last week, GOP Rep. Sean Duffy (WI) was encountered angry opposition from his constituents... [more]
It's official. Obama will be re-elected in 2012. The level of anger agaisnt Republicans from the Ryan budget is substantial and it is hard to see how the Republican presidential nominee will get votes when you hae town hall meetings like this:
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As ThinkProgress reported last week, GOP Rep. Sean Duffy (WI) was encountered angry opposition from his constituents at a town hall meeting last week in Wisconsin. Locals objected to Duffy advocating for Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) budget plan that would effectively end Medicare while at the same time advocating for cutting taxes even more for the richest people.
CONSTITUENT: I’d like to know where you get your information, where those projections come from?
DUFFY: That’s also from the CBO.
CONSTITUENT: No, no, no, no, no. Did you get any information from the Heritage Foundation?
DUFFY: [...] This is OMB and CBO.
CONSTITUENT: Show me how the Ryan budget that you just voted for brings down the deficit.
DUFFY: I don’t have the chart here. [...]
CONSTITUENT: [...] I know what chart you used, it came from the Heritage Foundation, from a man named William W. Beach, he’s lying. It’s a fraud. [...] A Nobel Prize-winning economist labeled it a fraud! [referring to Paul Krugman]
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Response by alanhart
almost 15 years ago
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Has the GOP learned nothing from the Bush II administration? They need to much more carefully control who is allowed in to public open meetings. Lock out the truth-tellers and similar riffraff.
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Response by Socialist
almost 15 years ago
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CONSTITUENT: The middle class is disappearing right now. During this time of prosperity, the top 1 percent was taking about 10 percent of the total annual income, but yet today we are fighting to not let the tax breaks for the wealthy expire? And we’re fighting to not raise the Social Security cap from $87,000? I think we’re wrong.
PAUL RYAN: A couple things. I don’t disagree with the premise of what you’re saying. The question is what’s the best way to do this. Is it to redistribute… (Crosstalk)
CONSTITUENT: You have to lower spending. But it’s a matter of there’s nothing wrong with taxing the top because it does not trickle down.
PAUL RYAN: We do tax the top. (Audience boos).
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Response by Socialist
almost 15 years ago
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By voting to privatize Medicare, the Republicans just painted themselves into a corner. The Demcorats did the same thing last year with ObamaCare, and we know how well that worked out for them in the election...
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Response by LICComment
almost 15 years ago
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No serious person gives Krugman any credibility. He is an ultra-left wing New York Times columnist who was completely wrong about the stimulus and contradicts himself all the time.
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Response by Riversider
almost 15 years ago
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Obama has proved to be a professional politician, in every sense of the word.
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Response by Riversider
almost 15 years ago
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Of course if he does get re-elected it will piss off liberals, who see how he back tracked on Wall Street, didn't give them the health care they wanted, started down the free trade path and extended Bush Tax cuts.
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Response by somewhereelse
almost 15 years ago
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"By voting to privatize Medicare, the Republicans just painted themselves into a corner. The Demcorats did the same thing last year with ObamaCare"
How backward can you get it? These were total opposites. Privatizing medicare is, well, privatizing, and adding ObamaCare is creating a new public healthcare program (certainly more public than what exists). Public as in the OPPOSITE of private.
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Response by Socialist
almost 15 years ago
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Under the Ryan budget, Medicare will be turned into ObamaCare.
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Response by Socialist
almost 15 years ago
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Voters don't like ObamaCare or privatizing Medicare. Both are poison that will get those who supported them thrown out of office. 4 Republicans voted against the Ryan budget, one of whom is from Montana, which has an exceptionally high number of seniors.
Has the GOP learned nothing from the Bush II administration? They need to much more carefully control who is allowed in to public open meetings. Lock out the truth-tellers and similar riffraff.
CONSTITUENT: The middle class is disappearing right now. During this time of prosperity, the top 1 percent was taking about 10 percent of the total annual income, but yet today we are fighting to not let the tax breaks for the wealthy expire? And we’re fighting to not raise the Social Security cap from $87,000? I think we’re wrong.
PAUL RYAN: A couple things. I don’t disagree with the premise of what you’re saying. The question is what’s the best way to do this. Is it to redistribute… (Crosstalk)
CONSTITUENT: You have to lower spending. But it’s a matter of there’s nothing wrong with taxing the top because it does not trickle down.
PAUL RYAN: We do tax the top. (Audience boos).
By voting to privatize Medicare, the Republicans just painted themselves into a corner. The Demcorats did the same thing last year with ObamaCare, and we know how well that worked out for them in the election...
No serious person gives Krugman any credibility. He is an ultra-left wing New York Times columnist who was completely wrong about the stimulus and contradicts himself all the time.
Obama has proved to be a professional politician, in every sense of the word.
Of course if he does get re-elected it will piss off liberals, who see how he back tracked on Wall Street, didn't give them the health care they wanted, started down the free trade path and extended Bush Tax cuts.
"By voting to privatize Medicare, the Republicans just painted themselves into a corner. The Demcorats did the same thing last year with ObamaCare"
How backward can you get it? These were total opposites. Privatizing medicare is, well, privatizing, and adding ObamaCare is creating a new public healthcare program (certainly more public than what exists). Public as in the OPPOSITE of private.
Under the Ryan budget, Medicare will be turned into ObamaCare.
Voters don't like ObamaCare or privatizing Medicare. Both are poison that will get those who supported them thrown out of office. 4 Republicans voted against the Ryan budget, one of whom is from Montana, which has an exceptionally high number of seniors.