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And as far as our former VP goes, didn't he shoot his best friend? Guess I do not have to say much more than that about Mr. Haliburton I mean Mr. Cheaney. Now, he goes around criticizing the current administration. Does he not realize that in a recent poll, he was part of the 6th worst ever team in the white house???
I'm curious to know more about this poll... was it possibly an updated Schlesinger survey of historians/academics? And who were the other five?
Also, maybe just thinking out loud here... Anyone remember Al Gore catching hell for speaking out against the Iraq War? Even then, he had waited a few years before stepping up. Gore didn't spend the better part of eight years boosting the notion of an unquestioned, more unitary executive either...
P.S. Did the former prez just stay in Texas WAYYYYY too long during his 8 year tenure of mediocrity or was it just me?
Allow me to formulate a rough estimate of W's vacation time.
W presidency = (8 years + 2 leap days) = 2,922 days.
W vacation = 490 days/77 visits to the Crawford ranch 487 days/149 visits to Camp David Those equal 977 days away from the White House over those eight years - and that's just counting the ranch & Camp David.
My rough estimate of the time W spent on vacation: 977/2922 = 33.44%
I'm not sure... is that too long?
I will have to find it again but the other 5 were from quite awhile ago I do believe...
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Here's the plan for the Health Care Summit: 1. Discussion:
a. The President will offer opening comments, followed by Republican and Democratic Members chosen by their colleagues.
b. They'll then move to discussions around four themes: i Controlling costs - introduced by the President ii. Insurance reforms - introduced by Secretary Sebelius iii. Reducing the deficit - introduced by the Vice President iv. Expanding coverage - introduced by the President
2. Logistics: a. Participants will be seated at tables in a hollow square setup. They'll be identified with name cards. b. There will be a leadership staff walk-through on Wednesday afternoon.
3. Timing: a. The meeting will begin at 10:00 am and run until about 4:00 pm. b. There will be a break for lunch. Buffet lunch will be provided for guests.
4. Attendance: a. Not all participants have been named by leadership. We'll make the full list available as soon as it's final.
It's going to go from 10am to 4pm with a break for lunch.
Post by Lawn Gnome on Feb 25, 2010 18:41:56 GMT -5
As a proud (left-leaning) Tennessean, I would like to draw attention to my senator Bob Corker (R) for breaking stride from his party and reaching out to Sen. Dodd (D) on the issue of financial reform. While Corker's party finds it politically advantageous to simply say "no," in hopes of sweeping the next Congressional election, he is showing leadership over politics and keeping the best interests of Tennesseeans and all Americans in mind. I hope others can grow a pair and step up to the plate (both parties) and stop playing the political game. We live in too tumultuous a time to worry about party interests...
We live in too tumultuous a time to worry about party interests...
Good luck with that
There's def. a political reality out there. (I think it looks something like a massive brick wall.) I was referring to actions like the one I mentioned: leadership over politics. It's the exception and not the rule, clearly. But I do think leaders who step up and grow a pair should be commended. Perhaps that wasn't the best statement to use...
That's not stepping up and growing a pair. That's an inexperienced president dialing it down a notch and ceding some ground to Congress. The exact kind of thing I was warning apparently deaf ears about a little over two years ago
While I'm in the neighborhood of that subject, grab your tinfoil hats because I've got a theory to share...
I don't think Obama expected to be elected president. Not in 2008, at least. I think it was more long-term posturing with 12 or 16 in mind, building a national base of support, maybe angling for the veep job... remember, Hillary was inevitable/unstoppable in late 2007 Anyway, I think something more like that was the goal... but instead wound up being something more like the "What do we do now?" moment in The Candidate.
Bill Frist, a former Senate majority leader, called reconciliation an “arcane” procedure that Congress has “never used ... to adopt major, substantive policy change.” Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee asserted that this parliamentary tactic was unprecedented for a bill like health reform. Senator John McCain of Arizona said that the use of reconciliation would have “cataclysmic effects.” ... Reconciliation was intended to be a narrow procedure to bring revenues and spending into conformity with the levels set in the annual budget resolution. But it quickly became much more. The 22 reconciliation bills so far passed by Congress (three of which were vetoed by President Bill Clinton) have included all manner of budgetary and policy measures: deficit reductions and increases; social policy bills like welfare reform; major changes in Medicare and Medicaid; large tax cuts; and small adjustments in existing law. Neither party has been shy about using this process to avoid dilatory tactics in the Senate; Republicans have in fact been more willing to do so than Democrats.
i am extremely surprised no one is singing praises that obama's top domestic priority was passed by the house. what happened to his state of the union address where he said jobs was going to be the main focus? i guess crossing the finish line with health care was more important.
edit: i cant wait until immigration reform happens, because then you will have all these new Americans who will be uninsured!!!
i am extremely surprised no one is singing praises that obama's top domestic priority was passed by the house. what happened to his state of the union address where he said jobs was going to be the main focus? i guess crossing the finish line with health care was more important.
edit: i cant wait until immigration reform happens, because then you will have all these new Americans who will be uninsured!!!
Of course if they are now Americans and can get jobs they will start paying taxes into the system,and it will help pay for everything. Unless your implication is that immigrants illegal or not are merely shiftless individuals who are a drain on society.
Here by the way is an example of why reform is needed. My GF is a postdoctoral research fellow at Vanderbilt in developmental and cell biology. Currently she is working on a 5 year project that is attempting to cure juvenile diabetes. She has a masters from Malaysia where she is from and a PHD from Goettingen University in Germany one of the most famous and lauded schools in the world. After her 12 years of schooling (all of which were paid for by socialists mind) she came to Nashville. She decided she wanted to live in America and get a green card that would allow her to take any job she wanted, because a H1-B visa is very limited, you can only work for the person who hired you and they send you back if you are not working there anymore. It has cost us well over 9000 dollars to try and secure this visa, and we are currently starting on year two of the process. You tell me our system does not need an overhaul when it is this hard for a scientist with a high end PHD to get a green card to work in America instead of someplace else. Also what do you expect anyone else who wants to come to America to do. It is literally almost impossible to get a visa in any kind of reasonable time frame these days, and that is one of the main reasons we have so many illegals. Also if there was a workable system for getting over here, then we would be better able to take care of our borders because you would know that anyone sneaking in, had a decent alternative and is probably up to no good.
OMG run run - the sky is falling - the sky is falling - wait - what? the sky is not falling?? It was just the health bill passing??
**runs away having caused panic and chaos**
(pssstt - well dayum and here I thought it was something to freak out about....guess I was mistaken - I suggest that everyone sit back, relax, and let's just see how this whole thing works itself out before panicking)
Wait - OMG - you damn communist hippies are trying to turn me into a liberal
i am extremely surprised no one is singing praises that obama's top domestic priority was passed by the house. what happened to his state of the union address where he said jobs was going to be the main focus? i guess crossing the finish line with health care was more important.
Obama signed a jobs bill on Thursday; the health care bill has not yet been signed into law. WTF are you talking about?
I declare this to be an uninformed, knee-jerk, partisan reaction.
OMG run run - the sky is falling - the sky is falling - wait - what? the sky is not falling?? It was just the health bill passing??
**runs away having caused panic and chaos**
(pssstt - well dayum and here I thought it was something to freak out about....guess I was mistaken - I suggest that everyone sit back, relax, and let's just see how this whole thing works itself out before panicking)
Wait - OMG - you damn communist hippies are trying to turn me into a liberal
OMG run run - the sky is falling - the sky is falling - wait - what? the sky is not falling?? It was just the health bill passing??
**runs away having caused panic and chaos**
(pssstt - well dayum and here I thought it was something to freak out about....guess I was mistaken - I suggest that everyone sit back, relax, and let's just see how this whole thing works itself out before panicking)
Wait - OMG - you damn communist hippies are trying to turn me into a liberal
i am extremely surprised no one is singing praises that obama's top domestic priority was passed by the house. what happened to his state of the union address where he said jobs was going to be the main focus? i guess crossing the finish line with health care was more important.
Obama signed a jobs bill on Thursday; the health care bill has not yet been signed into law. WTF are you talking about?
I declare this to be an uninformed, knee-jerk, partisan reaction.
Man, all this anger over something that seems like it could be a huge positive step for millions of Americans, myself included. I think some Republicans are probably setting themselves on fire over this. It's pretty f*cking insane.
Follow-up: I just sent a PM to a mod... I figured this might not be the best thing to publicly discuss in the relevant forum.
I used the singular form of each of those words in that message, and read the copy in my Outbox. The singular form of both of those words gets filtered into "I am an idiot"