Congress hurtles toward shutdown

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  1. Zorro

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    That's the difference between a Very Stable Genius and a Community Organizer of pedestrian intellect.
     
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    Because Bush handed Barry another great depression that Obambam turned in to a recession to save the US. It's ain't rocket science but it does require honesty.
     
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    Just showed you they could have. McConnell chose not to.
     
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    No, as that question you keep trolling with is off topic and irrelevant to the thread. When it’s removed, the context of your post doesn’t change.
     
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    barry had low unemployment his last two years, why didn't the boom occur then?
     
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    Still cant get your dates straight I see. The job loss rate bottomed out tne month Obama moved from Senate, where he fully supported thos failed policies and huge spending increases amd the recession ended in its own thanks to the markets and private business before anything Obama did. His job was to institute policies to help get us into a full recovery and kn that ne totally failed.
     
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    Still purveying propaganda revisionist history to sell your false narrative I see. Your desperation is obvious since the facts and timeline is not on your side.
     
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    Thwn go back to the original thread, qhere you were dishonestly editing out my context and explain your claim. But since this thread IS about the budget and deficits you can do it right here.

    Explain hoe Bush was supposed to veto the Democrats 2009 budget?
     
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    No, this thread is about the republican shut down.
     
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    Its about budgets and policies and when there is political conflict. You have made the claim that in 2009 in a budget conflict Bush could have and should have vetoed the Democrat budget, which could presented a government shutdown then but a CR was passed then.
    So explain how Bush could have vetoed that budget.

    I asked again in the original thread if you prefer to answer there.
     
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    Then refute it with facts other than that you are merely blowing smoke .
     
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    You haven't proved your propaganda with any historical facts or factual context so now you try to move the goal posts to me?...... Run along or prove your propaganda revisionist propaganda.
     
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    Sure. Sure. Not buying what you're peddling.
     
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    I care little for what is wrong with the D party.
    But your diversion didn't answer what is wrong with the R party.

    IMO, the best package would be where most D's and R's vote in favor. Leave the party fringes fuming.
     
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    psssst, booms lead to busts.
    Slow and steady wins the marathon.
     
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    Yes. And also affects credibility.
     
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    Chuck Schumer, whose surname (per ancestry.com) is "a nickname from Middle Low German 'good-for-nothing,' 'vagabond,'" revealed how aptly he is named.

    In fact, the Democrats' government shutdown gimmickry reminds me of nothing so much as the scene in the movie Animal House where Eric "Otter" Stratton offers up the notion that the situation absolutely requires a "futile and useless gesture, and we're just the guys to do it."
     
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    They were until January 2007. By that time housing prices had peaked and the economy was heading for a recession.
    The usual nine months between policy changes and an impact on the economy meant that the 2007 Q4 downturn was already baked into the results.
    TARP didn't exist October 2008.
    Republicans insisted 2/3 of recovery spending be put into personal tax cuts, so what are the anti-growth, anti-business policies you're talking about?
    There was a short-term demand problem in 2008-2009. We have longer-term structural problems that are mostly supply-side issues. No party has addressed those seriously.
     
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    Right. And republicans shut down government.
     
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    What are you talking about? What suppy-side policies? As I've said, there was a demand deficit created by the credit crunch made worse by Bush letting Lehman go broke. Banks stopped lending to each other and the government had to guarantee interbank lending to prevent a collapse of the banking system.
     
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    Fat Donnie Trump has fallen down on the job with this government shutdown business...
    Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life.
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    Republican supply-sde, Democrat demand-side. But then you knew that.
     
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    How so? Do you also claim Bush could have vetoed the Democrats 2009 budget? Is so please explain how as rahl refuses to do even though it's his his claim and dishonestly deletes my asking from my post quotes, you know what he was attempting to complain about.

    So what credibility have I lost?
     
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    Nope Democrats are doing that.

    Now answer my question, how was Bush supposed to veto the Democrats 2009 Budget. He signed their continuing resolution then so the government wasn't shutdown but how was he supposed to veto the omnibus budget as you claimed he should have.

    And don't dare edit my post or I'll report it.
     
  25. dairyair

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    I don't know what the original questions were, and if we're going to bush, not interested. I did try to find out what was being talked about, but you post was deleted and the thread back is gone.
    Honesty, is lost.
     

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