Posted on 09/09/2010 1:56:05 PM PDT by TruthHound
...What most ails the economy right now is the uncertainty in the business sector about what Washington will do next. Wariness and doubt inhibit investment and hiring. The President's new proposals address those obstacles head-on. But sooner or later the President is going to need Republican votes and the backing of business to get this and other measures passed. Treating his opponents as unprincipled chuckleheads makes it less likely that Obama will get what he wants and more likely that voters will be turned off by contemptuous rhetoric.
That sort of gambit is likely to prove unhelpful for either the long-term good of the economy or the President.
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
Um, don’t you have to have something to lose it? (Well, except they’ve proven they can lose OPM, for some time, but that aside).
OK, now he’s getting really, really, really mad...watch your wallets..
If you starve the beast it will die..
Yes try the veal and tip the waitstaff....
Obama is a radical leftist...any time he reveals a bit of who he is you get the "pass the buck", hate filled rhetoric that he's been spewing lately. He can't really help himself, it's who he is.
They’ll take out things before it gets to our wallets anyway. That’s how the scheme works, because if everyday people were writing tax checks, they’d have “woken up” by now. In any event, the nut is cracking, and losing it’s mind. Like all those used by the devil, in the end he’ll get tossed aside, truly a sad fate.
“People don’t follow titles. They follow courage.” (”Braveheart”)
Whining and payoffs are neither
What happened to the tingle? Time must be really hurting financially to publish this.
We've also seen Democrats treating Obama like he's radioactive on the campaign trail. This has to be getting under his thin skin. The appropriate response by the Republicans should be to taunt and ridicule him to push him over the edge...
Yep, he’s pit toast..
My money has gone on holidays until he is out...
I’m not sure about a complete recovery, but I’ll bet things will look up for business if we take control in Nov. At least they’d know we could stop anything damaging be passed until 2012 and probably longer.
Only if you jump through the hoops created and bow down to Mecca five times a day. Keep your damn 'incentives' and GET OUT OF THE WAY!
How can this be? The Democrats own both Houses of Congress. To pass anything, anything at all, they need the vote of a single Senate Republican.
And, if it's a budget reconciliation item, they don't even need that.
They get it through the back door, cost of goods etc...they are hitting me..
Um actually they DON’T need Republican votes. Mark Halperin is a hack.
Ditto! Going Galt all the way!
You could have told us it was a hit piece on Republicans and John Boehner...
Now we know why his school records were sealed...report card-doesn’t play well with others....
Wasn’t it the late Senator James Buckley who got the law past sealing all of those academic records, and conservatives agreed? Now, in this case, wouldn’t it be nice if Senator Buckley had never come up with that idea? Adfter all, why should one want such records sealed? Most of the time there will be no need to see them for any reason.
Oops, Senator Buckley is still living. Born 1923
Ridicule is one of Saul Alinsky’s rules for radicals. You can see how Obama uses this tactic when he’s out giving his speeches. I bet some ridicule coming from the other side would really get under his skin.
Most Presidential campaigns have the VP candidate go out and make the more stridently partisan attacks. Obama has been President for close to two years and still behaves as if he was the VP candidate in a campaign. I don't think any previous President comes close to him for the amount of partisan rhetoric uttered--even the highly partisan Presidents like Nixon and Clinton recognized a value in acting Presidential, but the current occupant of the White House knows better than that.
Don’t trust him, don’t trust the government.
On rumor of accelerated investment deductions thought about some capital projects to defer the 39% tax rate... but nah... don’t trust a dang thing they say.
When living with uncertainty the best thing to do is... nothing.
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