According to Schmuck Schumer Americans don’t care about pork…
^I heard that. I seriously think he does not want to get reelected with that statement.
No, he’s just flipping the bird to responsible NYers knowing full well he can say what ever he wants and still get re-elected in NY, where the incumbent always wins.
And I do. He’s my favorite famous economist.
Schmuck Schumer is right.
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/seattlepolitics/archives/161625.asp
Obama Up, Republicans down in Gallup Poll
More than two thirds of the American public approve President Obama’s handling of efforts to pass an economic stimulus package, while less than a third approve actions by Republicans in Congress, according to a new Gallup Poll.
In a nationwide survey, taken during the first week of February, Gallup asked adults if they approved or disapproved of Obama’s efforts on economic stimulus, and those of Democrats and Republicans in Congress.
Obama received the highest marks by far, an approval rating more than twice that of President Bush when he left office on January 20.
- Sixty-seven percent approved of Obama’s efforts, just 25 percent disapproved, with eight percent offering no opinion.
- Democrats in Congress scored a 48 percent approval rating, with 42 percent of those surveyed disapproving actions by Congress’ majority party. Ten percent voiced no opinion.
- The Republicans in Congress garnered an approval rating of just 31 percent, with 58 percent disapproving and 11 percent giving no opinion.
Cable TV pundits and such critics as ex-House Speaker Newt Gingrich – who went on NBC’s “Today” and likened Obama to Jimmy Carter – have claimed that the Obama administration is losing control of the debate.
Not so, said Gallup.
The poll’s findings “underscore the degree to which Obama appears to be maintaining the upper hand over his opponents from a public opinion perspective as he and congressional leaders wrangle over the precise form and substance of a new economic stimulus plan,” the pollster concluded.
“Recent Gallup polling also shows that a slight majority of Americans in general favor the idea of passing a stimulus plan of around $800 million, a sentiment that has stayed constant over the last several weeks,” the pollster added.
The poll data came as Obama was conducting a town hall meeting in Elkhart, Indiana, to urge immediate package of his stimulus plan. A second town hall meeting will be held in Fort Myers, Florida.
As well, Gallup asked adults:
"Thinking back to the way you felt before Barack Obama took office, would you say you now have (more confidence, less confidence, no change) in the Obama administration’s a) ability to improve the economy, and b) Ability to manage the federal government.
A total of 55 percent said their confidence in Obama’s ability to improve the economy has grown. A slightly lower figure, 51 percent, answered that their confidence in his ability to manage government is greater than before Obama took office.
Only 17 percent of those surveyed said they have less confidence in Obama’s ability to improve the economy. And 18 percent replied that they are less confident in his ability to manage the government.
A 1992-vintage political slogan would seem to sum up Americans’ opinions on the current economic crisis: “It’s the economy stupid.”
Slightly over half of those surveyed, 51 percent, told Gallup it is “critically important” to improve the economy. An additional 29 percent termed it “important, but not critical.”
Just 16 percent opted for “not that important.”
HAHA this coming from a person who can’t even make an argument? You should stick to your hydraulic pumps or whatever it is you do.
The problem is too big and your eyes are too small.
As far as school spending, my bro just told me Milwaukee has 9 empty schools but the schools they are using are crowed so they need money to build new schools. Typical educators. Some of this shit is actually funny. You educators should be forced to be exposed to the real world once in a while.
Prove that, don’t just give some bulshit story of your brother in Milwaukee to try and prove your point.
Find the district he works for, find the addresses of these empty schools and find out if there is anything wrong with them, find his school and find out what the student-teacher ratio is.
Somehow I think you either made this up completely or you have less than half the truth and are only using the parts that work for your logic.
Jesus fucking Christ Jeg are you serious?!?!
:jawdrop:
I agree with you, there are thousands of jobs waiting to be made just through updating our dilapidated infrastructure.
:uhh: Agreeing with you must be similar to dividing by zero or something.
According to NYspeed, 50% of Americans believe he will not help the economy at all…
According to NYspeed, 50% of NYSPEEDERS believe he will not help the economy at all. Hardy a vast demographic either I might add.
I didnt vote yet but what type of time frame are we looking at here? Are we looking only at if things get fixed during his term of if a direct action of his fixes it?
According to NYSpeed, civics are cool, cars get girls, proper written english is unnecessary, depreciating assets are investments, and I make a good authority figure. :lol:
More cutting and pasting because I know Joe loves it. 
The liberals are at it again. In a new bill introduced the first day of the present session of Congress, and with zero coverage from the MSM, H.R. 45 (Blair Holt’s Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009) targets all gun owners in the U.S.A. While the media the world and everyone else is focused on the “phony plan” to spend tax dollars legislation is sneeking through the House and Senate for more gun control.
This nefarious bill seeks to strip us all of our Constitutional Rights to possess and bear firearms of any distinction. It requires, within the first two years, that all new guns be registered. The bill goes retroactive after two years. Meaning that two years after the passage of the bill, ALL FIREARMS in a citizen’s possession must be registered, not just those purchased after the bill passes, and this apparently applies to antique firearms as well.
One of the only industries doing well right now, hey lets fuck with them too!
BRB I am going to post 10 articles from moveon.org and truemajorityaction.org
Centrists and Republicans to America: Drop Dead!
February 7, 2009, 2:21AM
Now that we have seen just exactly what the influence of the centrists in the Senate has been on the stimulus bill, it is clear that the bill is much worse than when it arrived in the Senate and if passed in this form it will be much less effective than we desperately need it to be. The naive emphasis on bipartisan outreach from the Obama administration has yielded exactly what it always yields and that is an inferior piece of legislation that will not deliver the stimulating punch it is intended to deliver to the economy, but that will serve to undermine the efforts of the President and this mutant they have conceived, when it fails as it surely will, will be hung around the President’s neck like the albatross it is intended to be. That’s simply unacceptable.
So, the thanks the President gets for his attempt to work cooperatively with the Republicans is a product that hampers the intended purpose of the bill. And even after all their rotten ideas were included they still are voting no. This is not just a happenstance but a deliberate and well thought out plan to hobble this legislation so that it won’t work. That way, the Republicans can run against Obama in 2010 saying that “look at all the money he spent and it didn’t do any good at all”. Then they will undoubtedly add that “the problem with the bill was not enough tax cuts.”
This grotesque demonstration of bad faith and unpatriotic political manuevering cannot be tolerated. The President should get rid of ALL of the foolish tax cuts in the bill, do the things he knows are right, make no compromise with those blithering idiots and demand that they support the bill as he wants it. He should then call on the American people to lay down a withering barrage of phone calls, emails, letters, visits, etc… to the office of those gutless centrist wonders and the Republicans to pressure them as they have never been pressured before until they cave in and support the President’s bill.
Most economists I have read or heard in the past couple of weeks believe that even at $900 Billion the bill is not big enough to stop, let alone reverse the tsunami of job losses that are headed our way in the next 2 years. If we load this bill down with in excess of 40% of all the money going toward tax cuts which we know will not be even close to the most effective stimulting measures we can take, then we have reduced the effectiveness of the bill dramatically. So, by loading the bill up with tax cuts that won’t stimulate the economy much, if at all, we are simply doing more of the crap Bush was doing and that is the opposite of what the people voted for last November.
It is time to face the reality of the situation we are in. The country is in a new depression and the effects are growing by leaps and bounds every single day. We don’t need some analyst to inform us in a year or so that a depression is underway. We see it. We feel it. It is time to act, not to ponder or hesitate and not to vacillate over whether we should do what is right or what the worst elements in public life demand. There really is no choice, our leaders must do what is right and they must do it now. Over 600,000 people lost their jobs last month alone which is a huge increase from the month before so the depression is growing rapidly. We have no more time to waste attempting to appeal to the better angels of the Republicans’ nature: they don’t have any better angels. They are morally and politically bankrupt. They are so corrupt they cannot act in the best interest of the country even when they want to (which is rare). They are filled with bad will and malice toward all. They hate the American people and are demonstrating just how much by gutting the country’s best hope of blunting the effects of the economic catastrophe they and their idiotic policies have caused. Hopefully, the President has learned his lesson and the bloody stump he pulled back from his attempt to reach out to these creeps has taught him just how much cooperation he can expect from them.
So, Mr. President, if you were listening to me I would advise the following:
You did your damndest on the bipartisan business but it didn’t work out and we don’t have any time left to mess around with it. It’s okay to put on your partisan war bonnet now, open up a couple of cases of whoopass and let’s kick those Republican’s asses from here to next Wednesday until they understand who is boss now. The people are behind you sir: use them! Rally them! Call upon them to demand the action you and we know is needed and that they know is needed. Tell them not to listen to the corrupt liars who got us in this mess and instead show them the way out of it. It’s time to do what is right and to fight as hard and as much as necessary to get this bill passed. There will be no comity and no collegiality with the Republican swine until you have demonstrated to them that you are, indeed, the big dog, that you will not be pushed around, and that you will do what is right for the country whether or not they are willing to cooperate. It’s the only language they know and it is a language where actions are much louder than words. So Mr. President, let’s get to work, put those bastards in their place, and bring real change to Washington and the rest of the nation.
:picard:
This bill is in the first step in the legislative process. Introduced bills and resolutions first go to committees that deliberate, investigate, and revise them before they go to general debate. The majority of bills and resolutions never make it out of committee
Well Joe at least mine was about a bill and not just whiney liberals crying to each other.
The stimulus is still a bill…It doesn’t become a law until tomorrow 
There’s something wrong with this? You own a gun, it should be registered. OMG the government will know about my guns!
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