YES, GOP, AS IN REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN PROMISES.
THE TEA ROOM IS SICK OF HEARING THAT OBAMA HAS DONE ANYTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN...HE HASN'T.
HE PICKED UP WHERE BUSH LEFT OFF AND SIMPLY 'EXPANDED' ON THAT, BUT SINCE THE GOP MIND SEEMS UNABLE TO RECALL WHAT REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTS AND/OR CANDIDATES DID OR SAID, LET'S JUST GO GET SOME FACTS THAT ANYONE CAPABLE OF READING AT AN EIGHT GRADE LEVEL CAN FIND FOR THEMSELVES.
5 CAMPAIGN PROMISES MADE BY GOP CANDIDATES AND HOW OBAMA MADE THEM HAPPEN...
1~ LOWER UNEMPLOYMENT, CREATE MORE JOBS.
“I can tell you that over a period of four years, by virtue of the policies that we’d put in place, we’d get the unemployment rate down to 6 percent, and perhaps a little lower.”—Mitt Romney, May 23, 2012.
YEAH, OLD MITTENS ROMULUS...
Mitt Romney’s vow to reduce unemployment to 6 percent by the end of his first term in office was almost universally hailed as bold and ambitious.
WELLLL, OBAMA DID THAT.
The unemployment rate has dropped steadily since the 2012 election, and dipped to 5.9 percent in September, 2014.
UNEMPLOYMENT CURRENTLY STANDS AT 4.9%.
RICK PERRY MADE A VAGUE PROMISE TO CREATE 1.25 MILLION JOBS OUT OF 'THIN AIR'.
While Republicans block President Obama‘s plan to create 1.9 million jobs in ONE year, Perry’s plan promised those 1.25 million jobs…in 19 years.
2~ STRENGTHEN MEDICARE?
THAT'S WHAT THE GOP WAS SELLING IN 2012.
“Mitt Romney and I will protect and strengthen Medicare so that the promises that were made that people organize their retirements around, like my mom, will be promises that are kept.”—Paul Ryan, August 19, 2012
THE TEA ROOM IS SICK OF HEARING THAT OBAMA HAS DONE ANYTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN...HE HASN'T.
HE PICKED UP WHERE BUSH LEFT OFF AND SIMPLY 'EXPANDED' ON THAT, BUT SINCE THE GOP MIND SEEMS UNABLE TO RECALL WHAT REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTS AND/OR CANDIDATES DID OR SAID, LET'S JUST GO GET SOME FACTS THAT ANYONE CAPABLE OF READING AT AN EIGHT GRADE LEVEL CAN FIND FOR THEMSELVES.
5 CAMPAIGN PROMISES MADE BY GOP CANDIDATES AND HOW OBAMA MADE THEM HAPPEN...
1~ LOWER UNEMPLOYMENT, CREATE MORE JOBS.
“I can tell you that over a period of four years, by virtue of the policies that we’d put in place, we’d get the unemployment rate down to 6 percent, and perhaps a little lower.”—Mitt Romney, May 23, 2012.
YEAH, OLD MITTENS ROMULUS...
Mitt Romney’s vow to reduce unemployment to 6 percent by the end of his first term in office was almost universally hailed as bold and ambitious.
WELLLL, OBAMA DID THAT.
The unemployment rate has dropped steadily since the 2012 election, and dipped to 5.9 percent in September, 2014.
UNEMPLOYMENT CURRENTLY STANDS AT 4.9%.
RICK PERRY MADE A VAGUE PROMISE TO CREATE 1.25 MILLION JOBS OUT OF 'THIN AIR'.
While Republicans block President Obama‘s plan to create 1.9 million jobs in ONE year, Perry’s plan promised those 1.25 million jobs…in 19 years.
2~ STRENGTHEN MEDICARE?
THAT'S WHAT THE GOP WAS SELLING IN 2012.
“Mitt Romney and I will protect and strengthen Medicare so that the promises that were made that people organize their retirements around, like my mom, will be promises that are kept.”—Paul Ryan, August 19, 2012
There’s GREAT reason to doubt that Rep. Ryan (R-WI) was sincere when he promised to protect Medicare, given that he has repeatedly proposed plans to end the program as we know it.
The liar aid that because it sounded good, some fell for it, but Mittens and the Abe Lincoln look-alike lost.
Then, the strangest thing happened....
Obama’s Affordable Care Act has significantly improved MEDICARE's financial outlook. Since Obamacare became law, Medicare’s Hospital Insurance trust fund’s solvency has been extended by 13 years.
ARE MITTENS AND RYAN DANCING FOR JOY?
HELL NO.
3~ THE GOP PROMISE TO LOWER GAS PRICES...
ha ha ha ha ha....
“I’ve developed a program for American energy so no future president will ever bow
to a Saudi king again and so every American can look forward to $2.50-a-gallon gasoline.”—Newt Gingrich, February 22, 2012.
The liar aid that because it sounded good, some fell for it, but Mittens and the Abe Lincoln look-alike lost.
Then, the strangest thing happened....
Obama’s Affordable Care Act has significantly improved MEDICARE's financial outlook. Since Obamacare became law, Medicare’s Hospital Insurance trust fund’s solvency has been extended by 13 years.
ARE MITTENS AND RYAN DANCING FOR JOY?
HELL NO.
3~ THE GOP PROMISE TO LOWER GAS PRICES...
ha ha ha ha ha....
“I’ve developed a program for American energy so no future president will ever bow
to a Saudi king again and so every American can look forward to $2.50-a-gallon gasoline.”—Newt Gingrich, February 22, 2012.
By Gingrich’s standards, President Obama has been stunningly successful: The national average gas price is now $2.32 per gallon (THIS WAS IN 2014), marking the lowest level since May 2009.
Of course, gas prices have tumbled due to a wide range of factors, few of which involve Obama — but none of which involved bowing to a Saudi king.
JUST BOWING?
NOT KISSING?
Ahhh, young love, yes?
4~ THE REPUBLICAN PROMISE OF ECONOMIC GROWTH....
“Well, if China can have 5 percent growth, and India can have 5 percent growth, and Brazil can have 5 percent growth, the United States of America can have 5 percent growth”
—Tim Pawlenty, June 18, 2011
4~ THE REPUBLICAN PROMISE OF ECONOMIC GROWTH....
“Well, if China can have 5 percent growth, and India can have 5 percent growth, and Brazil can have 5 percent growth, the United States of America can have 5 percent growth”
—Tim Pawlenty, June 18, 2011
As Politico reported at the time, forgettable 2012 candidate Tim Pawlenty’s pledge to spur 5 percent GDP growth was “mocked by some economists and Republican critics as unachievable in a country this large.”
But in the third quarter of 2014, the Obama economy hit Pawlenty’s benchmark (for their part, Republicans greeted the news with as much enthusiasm as they showed toward Pawlenty’s campaign).
YEAH, IT'S GREAT IF A 'PUBLICAN CAN PULL IT OFF, BUT NOT IF THE 'DEMONCATS' DO IT, RIGHT?
5~ HERE'S THE "BIG ONE"...DEFICIT REDUCTION.
“We will curb Washington’s spending habits and promote job creation, bring down the deficit, and build long-term fiscal stability.”—2010 GOP Pledge to America.
When Republicans took control of the House in 2010, they repeatedly
stressed that reducing the federal budget deficit was a matter of peak
national importance.
Which makes their repeated proposals to blow up the deficit by billions rather odd.
Which makes their repeated proposals to blow up the deficit by billions rather odd.
[Be brave, follow the links.]
But thankfully for the GOP, with President Obama and Democrats blocking budget-busting proposals like Paul Ryan’s tax plan, the deficit has steadily dropped throughout Obama’s presidency.
Over the past five years (AGAIN, THIS WAS IN 2014), the red ink has swiftly faded.
This year’s deficit will be about $514 billion, or about one-third of the $1.5 trillion deficit in 2009; next year’s will be even lower, at around $478 billion.
As when Clinton was president, those marked fiscal improvements are mainly the product of a slowly recovering economy and growing incomes, along with federal budget cuts.
I KNOW, I KNOW, THOSE STATS ARE HARD TO SWALLOW, COMING FROM THE FEDERALES THEMSELVES, FROM PUBLIC DATABASES...BUT, SWALLOW HARD, IT'S JUST THE TRUTH AND WE ALL LOVE THE TRUTH, DON'T WE?
DON'T WE?
HELLO....?
NOW TO WHAT SET OFF THIS SMALL "RANT"... A CLOSE FRIEND SENT ME AN EMAIL ASKING IF I KNEW OBAMA WAS MANDATING PSYCHIATRIC SCREENING OF ALL AMERICANS...
FIRST I LAUGHED, THEN IT JUST MADE ME ANGRY AND SICK ENOUGH TO PUKE. MY BROTHER-FRIEND HAD BEEN SOLD A BILL OF GOODS...LIKE MILLIONS OF AMERICANS HAVE BOUGHT.
THIS IS NOTHING NEW, OBAMA IS NOT THE FIRST TO TRY THIS!
GEORGE W. BUSH DID THAT WAAAAAAAY BACK IN 2002.
"The New Freedom Initiative is a plan to screen the entire U.S. population for mental illness and to provide a cradle-to-grave continuum of services for those identified as either mentally ill or at risk of becoming so. Under the plan, schools would become hubs of the screening process – not only for children but for their parents and teachers. There are even components aimed at senior citizens, pregnant women, and new mothers.
"In April 2002, President Bush established the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health to conduct a ‘comprehensive study of the United States mental health service delivery system.’ The commission issued its recommendations in July 2003, chief among them being that schools are in a ‘key position’ to screen the 52 million students and 6 million adults who work at educational facilities."
"Eli Lilly has multiple ties to the Bush administration. George Bush, Sr., was a member of Lilly’s board of directors. Lilly made $1.6 million in political contributions in 2000 – 82 percent of which went to George W. Bush and the Republican Party. President Bush appointed Lilly’s chief executive officer, Sidney Taurel, to a seat on the Homeland Security Council."
"On Sept. 9, 2004, the ‘Ron Paul Amendment’ was defeated in the House of Representatives by a vote of 95-315. The Amendment would have prevented the funds sought by an appropriations bill (HR 5006) from being used for the mandatory mental-health screening of Americans, including public schoolchildren."
118 GOP CONGRESSMEN PASSED THAT G.W. BUSH BILL.
YOU CAN GO READ THEIR NAMES IN THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD FOR THAT VOTE OR SEE THE LIST <HERE>.
JUST SCROLL DOWN A BIT ON THAT PAGE.
"OHHH, BUT OBAMA IS WELCOMING THE 'BROWN TIDE' OF ILLEGAL ALIENS!"
TWO, COUNT 'EM, TWO RECENT REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTS ACTED WITHOUT CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL TO GRANT AMNESTY TO ILLEGAL ALIENS.
But is it unprecedented?
The answer is a resounding “no.” It was done by two of the previous three presidents with no one calling for impeachment.
In 1986, Congress passed and Ronald Reagan signed into law sweeping immigration reform which was immediately recognized as being flawed with provisions that would divide families, deporting some while members of the same family would be allowed to stay.
In 1987 when Congress failed to amend the law, Reagan acted through the INS to allow the minor children and spouses of those who were granted amnesty by the new law to stay in the country — and there was not one peep about impeachment or lawless behavior by the president.
In 1989 the Senate passed a measure that would have allowed those
covered by the executive action to stay with an 81-17 vote and the House
failed to act on it.
In February of 1990, President George H.W. Bush acting through the
INS, granted “family fairness” which allowed up to 1.5 million family
members of immigrants who benefited from the 1986 law to stay without
fear of deportation and work in the U.S.
Once again there was no uproar and in October of that year, Congress passed another immigration reform law making their status permanent.
Once again there was no uproar and in October of that year, Congress passed another immigration reform law making their status permanent.
ACTUALLY, Presidents Eisenhower, Ford, Reagan, Bush and Bush ALL altered immigration law by executive action, yet none were impeached.
NOTICE THE SOURCE FOR THE ABOVE...YEAH, THEY KEEP RECORDS.
Read the full report from the American Immigration Council: Executive Grants of Temporary Immigration Relief, 1956-Present
"OBAMACARE, OBAMACARE, OBAMACARE IS WRONG!"
LIKE OBAMA HIMSELF SAID, HE GOT THE IDEA FROM THE GOP PLAN OF 1993.
FROM "POLITIFACTS":
"The Heritage Foundation, the granddaddy of the right-wing think tanks, fumed when President Barack Obama said it was the source of the concept of the health insurance marketplaces where people could shop for the best deal. (We rated Obama's claim Mostly True.)
Short answer -- sort of.
There was a Republican bill in the Senate that looked a whole lot like Obamacare, but it wasn’t the only GOP bill on Capitol Hill...
Republican Sen. John Chafee of Rhode Island was the point man.
The bill he introduced, Health Equity and Access Reform Today, (yes, that spells HEART) had a list of 20 co-sponsors that was a who’s who of Republican leadership. There was Minority Leader Bob Dole, R- Kan., Sens. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, Richard Lugar, R-Ind., and many others.
There also were two Democratic co-sponsors.
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An individual mandate;
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Creation of purchasing pools;
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Standardized benefits;
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Vouchers for the poor to buy insurance;
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A ban on denying coverage based on a pre-existing condition.
BUT THAT WAS NOT THE FIRST TIME REPUBLICANS TRIED TO REFORM HEALTH CARE.
In April 1970, Senator Jacob Javits (R-NY) introduced a bill to extend Medicare to all—retaining existing Medicare cost sharing and coverage limits—developed after consultation with Governor Nelson Rockefeller (R-NY) and former Johnson administration HEW Secretary Wilbur Cohen.
[SOURCE: "Medicare for all is asked by Javits". The New York Times. p. 18.]
YES, EXTEND MEDICARE TO ALL U.S. CITIZENS...IMAGINE THAT!
HORRIBLE, RIGHT?
In February 1971, REPUBLICAN President Richard Nixon proposed more limited health insurance reform—a private health insurance employer mandate and federalization of Medicaid for the poor with dependent minor children.
[SOURCE: (1972). "Health insurance: hearings on new proposals". Congressional Quarterly almanac, 92nd Congress 1st session....1971 Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly. pp. 541–544.]
NOOOO!
NOT MANDATED HEALTH CARE, NOT MEDICAID FOR THE POOR!
NOT MEDICAID FOR ALL POOR CHILDREN!
BELIEVE IT, IT HAPPENED.
During the 2004 presidential election, both the George Bush and John Kerry campaigns offered health care proposals. Bush's proposals for expanding health care coverage were more modest than those advanced by Senator Kerry.
Several estimates were made comparing the cost and impact of the Bush and Kerry proposals.
While the estimates varied, they all indicated that the increase in coverage and the funding requirements of the Bush plan would both be lower than those of the more comprehensive Kerry plan.
[SOURCES: (October 3, 2004). "Kerry vs. Bush on health care". The New York Times. p. WK10.
AND
(September 21, 2004). "Bush and Kerry health care proposals: cost and coverage compared" (PDF). Falls Church, Va.: The Lewin Group.]
John McCain's 2008 campaign proposals focused on open-market competition rather than government funding. At the heart of his plan were tax credits - $2,500 for individuals and $5,000 for families who do not subscribe to or do not have access to health care through their employer. To help people who are denied coverage by insurance companies due to pre-existing conditions, McCain proposed working with states to create what he called a "Guaranteed Access Plan.
[SOURCE...YOU'RE GOING TO LOVE THIS ONE...(October 15, 2008). "The McCain health care plan: more power to families" (PDF). Washington, D.C.: The Heritage Foundation.]
THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION LIKED IT?
YUP.
"BENGHAZI, BENGHAZI, BENGHAZI!"
I AM DEEPLY SORRY TO HAVE SEEN THOSE GUYS DIE, BUT, (A) THE CIA WAS ILLEGALLY INTERROGATING PRISONERS THERE AND (B) THEY WERE GUN-RUNNING TO OUR CHOSEN "REBELS" OUT OF THAT COMPLEX.
THE CIA WAS AS MUCH TO BLAME FOR BENGHAZI AS OBAMA.
THE CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY OF THE MILITARY IS A MATTER OF RECORD.
THE MILITARY SAID THERE WAS NO STAND-DOWN ORDER FROM THE WHITE HOUSE.
THE MILITARY WAS PLENTY PISSED AFTER REAGAN'S MISTAKES, HOWEVER.
AND THEN, COMPARATIVELY, AS TO BODY-COUNT AND BEING STUPID, REAGAN'S REPEATED SCREW-UPS AT AMERICAN EMBASSIES TOPPED BENGHAZI MANY TIMES OVER.
SEE THE ARTICLE "RONALD REAGAN'S BENGHAZI".
SEE THE BBC's COMPARISON <HERE>.
THAT ARTICLE OFFERS A FEW SUGGESTIONS AS WELL.
ANOTHER MAINSTREAM MEDIA COMPARED THE TWO AND REAGAN WAS BASICALLY DEEMED AN IMBECILE FOR LETTING THE SAME THING HAPPEN AGAIN AND AGAIN...BUT NO OUTCRY FROM THE GOP CONGRESS THEN!
13 Benghazis That Occurred on Bush's Watch Without a Peep
BOTTOM LINE....SURPRISE, SURPRISE, SURPRISE, OBAMA HAS DONE NOTHING, NOT ONE WEE THING NEW, NOTHING THAT FORMER GOP PRESIDENTS DIDN'T ALSO DO, OR START DOING, OR PLEDGE TO DO, OR TRY AND FAIL TO DO.
I'VE PLAYED THIS GAME WITH DOZENS OF HARD-LINE GOP FOLKS...AFTER OVER 100 THINGS THEY BROUGHT UP THAT "OBAMA DID", I SHOWED THEM WHERE A GOP PREZ HAD ALREADY DONE THAT, OR TRIED TO.
USING DRONES?
UNDER BUSH, WE KNOWINGLY KILLED ALMOST 70 SCHOOL KIDS IN JUST ONE DRONE STRIKE.
"MUSLIM LOVER"?
WHO FUNDED THE GROUP WE KNOW NOW AS THE THE TALIBAN, WHICH WE'RE TOLD BECAME "AL QAEDA", CALLED THEM "FREEDOM FIGHTERS", DEDICATED A SHUTTLE LAUNCH TO THEM, ARMED THEM?
REAGAN.
LOOK AGAIN AT THE PICS OF BUSH SMOOCHING THE SAUDI MONARCH...IT DOESN'T GET MORE "MUSLIM-LOVING" THAN THAT, FOLKS.
AND IT WAS BUSH WHO SAID ISLAM WAS A RELIGION OF PEACE, ETC, IN CASE YOU FORGOT.
(COUGH, COUGH, ACKK)WELL, HANG ON, OLD 'PUBLICAN JOHN KERRY MAY HAVE KISSED CONSIDERABLE IRANIAN BUTT, AND JORDANIAN BUTT, AND SEVERAL, SEVERAL OTHER 'MUSLIM' BEHINDS ACTUALLY, RIGHT?
THAT'S WORSE THAN MOUTH-TO-MOUTH, HAND-HOLDING AND SWORD DANCING WITH THE SAUDIS, MAYBE?
POOR ECONOMIC SHOWING, BAD SPENDING HABITS?
ONE WORD... "REAGANOMICS"...VOODOO-ECONOMICS AS DADDY BUSH CALLED IT.
OR THREE WORDS... "CRASH OF 2008".
THERE WAS ANOTHER CRASH, 2000-2001... THE DOT-COM FINANCIAL FIASCO, LEST WE FORGET."When Bush took office, the national debt was $5.73 trillion. When he left, it was $10.7 trillion. That's a difference of $4.97 trillion, almost $1 trillion more than what Emanuel said.
You can check out all these numbers for yourself via the Treasury Department's debt history search application . "
WILL OBAMA TOP BUSH'S BAD SHOWING?
CERTAINLY.
THAT WON'T BE A NEW THING EITHER.JUST LOOK BACK AT THE TREASURY DEPT. STATS, SEE THE FACTS.
NOTHING NEW HAS COME OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE IN OVER 100 YEARS, PEOPLE.
SAME CRIMES, DIFFERENT NAMES OF THE CRIMINALS IN THE OVAL OFFICE, THAT'S ALL.
IT DOES NOT MATTER WHICH PARTY IS IN POWER, WHICH CANDIDATE GETS ELECTED, NOTHING NEW HAPPENS...IT'S JUST A SICK, DUMB, SENSELESS REPEAT OF WHAT OTHERS DID OR TRIED TO DO.
MAYBE SOME DAY, JUST MAYBE, BOTH YOU GOP AND DEMO FOLKS WILL COMPREHEND THIS FACT.
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND THE DEMOCRATS?NAMES AND LOGOS, THE END.
FACTS....GET SOME...THEY'RE FREE...JUST GO READ.
JUST GO LOOK.
YOU CAN FIND THEM!
FACTS WON'T KILL ANYONE!
UNLIKE IGNORANCE...WHICH KILLS A LOT OF PEOPLE....
MAN-UP, AMERICA!
PUT ON YOUR BIG BOY/BIG GIRL UNDERWEAR.
ALL POLITICIANS ARE CUT FROM THE SAME CLOTH, NONE ARE EVER GOING TO DO SOMETHING UNIQUE OR DIFFERENT BECAUSE IT'S ALL BEEN DONE BEFORE.
WHOEVER SITS IN THAT OVAL OFFICE IS A LOUSY PUPPET, A PRETEND KING...IT'S A JOKE...ON US.
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