http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKI9be55N00
This issue should not be a partisan one. Tell Republicans to support Americans, not the profits of Health Insurance executives.
It is hard to say it any better than the video above says it. People at the tea bag parties around the country are full of misdirected anger and hatred. Their behavior is completely irrational, ignorant and ironic. They will be receiving one of the largest tax cuts in recent years, and they are in a fury about taxes? They are calling the President a fascist, and they do not even know what the word means. Rachel Maddow also uncovered alot of not-so-hidden racism within this bunch, including posters of President Obama as a shoe shine boy.
They make a small, yet convenient army for the rich in this nation, whom taxes will affect the most after the Bush tax cuts expire. Their anger and demonstrations will not improve their lives. Nor will their hatred towards our President, who is actually trying to pass policies that will help them.
Sad.
Football in the Oval Office???
What would conservatives say if a photo of President Obama surfaced with him doing this?
My guess is that they would be horrified!! They would rant on and on about how un-Presidential, childish, “ghetto”, unprofessional, unbelievable, classless, immature, disrespectful and outrageous this is!
I can just hear it: “The President should show some RESPECT for the office!!! What does he think this is??”
“You know, even my 7 year old son knows better than this. He is not allowed to play ball inside, especially not inside of my office. Maybe we should have elected him for President.”
“Now we can see how stupid “liberals” are. They HATE America, and take every chance possible to disrespect it. What a joke!”
“This President is sending a disgraceful image around the world. Who is going to respect us, if they think our President believes his office is a playground?”
I surely hope this is a photoshopped image, and not a real photo, but my guess is it’s the real thing. I wonder where the backlash was? I wonder if this image made front page news.
BLASPHEMY!!!!!!!
They are replacing Jesus Christ with Ronald Reagan!!!!
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/07/stimulus.cuts/index.html
(CNN) — A coalition of Democrats and some Republicans reached a compromise that trimmed billions in spending from an earlier version of the Senate economic stimulus bill.
Senators worked late into the night to trim billions from the original stimulus bill
Senators worked late into the night to trim billions from the original stimulus bill
CNN obtained, from a Democratic leadership aide, a list of some programs that have been cut — either entirely or partially:
Partially cut:
• $3.5 billion for energy-efficient federal buildings (original bill $7 billion)
• $75 million from Smithsonian (original bill $150 million)
• $200 million from Environmental Protection Agency Superfund (original bill $800 million)
• $100 million from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (original bill $427 million)
• $100 million from law enforcement wireless (original bill $200 million)
• $300 million from federal fleet of hybrid vehicles (original bill $600 million)
• $100 million from FBI construction (original bill $400 million)
Fully eliminated
• $55 million for historic preservation
• $122 million for new Coast Guard polar icebreaker/cutters
• $100 million for Farm Service Agency modernization
• $50 million for CSERES research
• $65 million for watershed rehabilitation
• $30 million for SD salaries
• $100 million for distance learning
• $98 million for school nutrition
• $50 million for aquaculture
• $2 billion for broadband
• $100 million for NIST
• $50 million for detention trustee
• $25 million for Marshalls Construction
• $300 million for federal prisons
• $300 million for BYRNE Formula
• $140 million for BYRNE Competitive
• $10 million state and local law enforcement
• $50 million for NASA
• $50 million for aeronautics
• $50 million for exploration
• $50 million for Cross Agency Support
• $200 million for National Science Foundation
• $100 million for science
• $1 billion for Energy Loan Guarantees
• $4.5 billion for GSA
• $89 million GSA operations
• $50 million from DHS
• $200 million TSA
• $122 million for Coast Guard Cutters, modifies use
• $25 million for Fish and Wildlife
• $55 million for historic preservation
• $20 million for working capital fund
• $165 million for Forest Service capital improvement
• $90 million for State and Private Wildlife Fire Management
• $1 billion for Head Start/Early Start
• $5.8 billion for Health Prevention Activity
• $2 billion for HIT Grants
• $600 million for Title I (NCLB)
• $16 billion for school construction
• $3.5 billion for higher education construction
• $1.25 billion for project based rental
• $2.25 billion for Neighborhood Stabilization
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• $1.2 billion for retrofitting Project 8 housing
• $40 billion for state fiscal stabilization (includes $7.5 billion of state incentive grants)