[DManA]

None of the democrats and some fraction of the republicans do not want vigorous growth. Until we come to grips with that fact we will never make progress.

It is NOT that we disagree with how to get there, there is fundamental disagreement about the GOAL of vigorous growth.

[GeronL]

Obama comes out the victor in the messaging battle of the fiscal cliff negotiations

he runs 99% of the media, duh

[Mr. Jeeves]

He concludes by saying: “President Obama can improve middle-class prospects. In the coming months, he will need to choose between pleasing the green purists around him and generating a long boom that would elevate him to Mount Rushmore levels and assure his party’s political dominion for a generation.”

A long boom empowers the private sector and disempowers government.

Barack Obama is going to be the man who allows that to happen?

He, and the Left, see reducing millions to poverty and dependency as the most straightforward path to enduring power. After all, a Democrat boom would eventually lead to a Democrat bust, and a loss of elections. Under an empowered state, however, the miserable would have nowhere else to turn.

[Jim from C-Town]

The entire article is Bullshit! Obamas policies are anathema to growth. He is too much an ideologue to repeal Obama care, loosen the EPA chains and incentivise the private sector in any way that would spur real growth in the economy. Growth will continue around 1% - 2% and REQAL unemployment will be stuck in the mid-teens until well past 2016.

The average public, EVEN THOSE MENTAL RETARDS that voted for his reelection are getting sick of him. A 2/3rds majority of BOTH HOUSES and the state legislatures is an impossibility. I would be less shocked if he didn't finish his second term.

[blueunicorn6]

Obama doesn’t care about the environmentalists, but the Democrats do. Several hundred people in Boulder, CO held a candlelight vigil for a dead elk. I’ll bet you the majority of them vote and they vote Democrat. If the Democrats think that this oil development will cost them an election, they’ll be after it with a vengeance. Obama is just a Shill, a figurehead.

[Straight Vermonter]

Newt’s “Contract with America” was genius because it clearly framed the issues and forced the Dems to declare themselves against issues that most Americans wanted. Today there is no clarity on GOP positions.

[VRWC For Truth]

FDR - ginormous gov’t proponent
HST (D) - big gov’t proponent
DDE (R) - moderate gov’t proponent, created Health, Education, and Welfare Dept
JFK (D) - moderate gov’t proponent
LBJ (D) - enormous gov’t proponent, created Housing & Urban Development and Transportation Dept
RMN (R) - big gov’t proponent
GRF (R) - big gov’t proponent
JEC (D) - enormouse gov’t proponent, created Energy Dept and Education Dept
RWR (R) - small gov’t proponent
GHB (R) - big gov’t proponent, created Veterans Affairs Dept
WJC (D) - big gov’t proponent
GWB (R) - tolerant big gov’t proponent, created Homeland Security Dept
BHO (D) - ginormous gov’t proponent

80 years of history with successive increases in the debt limit by BOTH parties

Other than a bump in the road with Reagan, pretty much a hard tack left.

1929 is going to look like a picnic after this disaster

The ‘Rat party is a RICO entity and the GOP are unindicted co-conspirators

[AdaGray]

This is ridiculous. More analysis???? How about a Republican leader who can chew gum and walk at the same time?

[familyop]

An energy and agricultural economy without a large manufacturing base eventually settles into being a third-world economy in a third rate country. Without ridding our nation of anti-family, anti-production progressivism/romanticism and evil “males” at work in manufacturing, the contemporary political regulator class will lose. Can’t all sit and decay in offices. Have fun. Enjoy the slide.

[familyop]

To clarify, we need to abolish regulations that prevent small manufacturing shops from starting and abolish laws that discourage traditional family structure.

[skinkinthegrass]

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