Marco Rubio said yesterday that it is NOT the lack of experience of Barack Obama that is at issue.
Rather, it is Obama’s viewpoints and policies.
So Marco Rubio thinks providing health care for all Americans is a bad idea, heh?
So Marco Rubio thinks we cannot and should not do anything legislatively to deal with gun violence, heh?
So Marco Rubio thinks it was a good thing to shut down the government, and create constant crises over the budget and debt limit, heh?
So Marco Rubio thinks women have abortions for “fun” and “profit”, heh?
So Marco Rubio thinks it is bad to have a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, heh?
So Marco Rubio thinks having an opening to Cuba is bad, even though Ronald Reagan dealt with the “evil empire”, the Soviet Union, heh?
So Marco Rubio thinks dealing with Iran in any form is wrong, and it is better to go to war against Iran without first trying diplomatic methods to gain our goals, as Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan believed with China and the Soviet Union, heh?
So Marco Rubio thinks working toward dialogue with both Cuba and Iran is wrong, but Richard Nixon established diplomatic openings to China and Bill Clinton to Vietnam, the latter a generation after we lost 58,000 military personnel, heh?
These are just eight areas where Marco Rubio thinks Barack Obama is wrong, but reality is that Barack Obama is correct, and it is Marco Rubio who is out of touch with reality and has a need to broaden his horizons and understanding of what is really important in domestic and foreign policy!
The whole GOTea party is out of touch with reality.
Now that disaster has hit his home state, Lindsey Graham has flip-flopped on disaster aid from the feds.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/after-sc-floods-lindsey-graham-reverses-course-disaster-aid
LOL! Ben Carson wants to arm Kindergarten teachers.
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/ben-carson-advocates-arming-kindergarten-teachers
The gun would have to be kept under lock and key. The teacher will be shot first while fumbling with the lock.
Odds are that there would be an incident involving a student, teacher or faculty long before there would be an incident with an intruder.
Guns in schools is a dumb idea. Elementary schools even dumber.
I suggest the Republican Party be renamed the Do Nothing/Flip Flop/Cuckoo Party.
Carson and rest of the Do Nothing/Flip Flop/Cuckoo Party don’t understand the Constitution. The 2nd Amendment of the Constitution was not intended to give every citizen the right to own a gun. It was intended to provide a means to arm a “well regulated militia” to fight against foreign invaders.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/nra-guns-second-amendment-106856
Goes to show that the more you inject money into politics, the more influence a powerful money-making institution like the NRA can influence policy in this country.
Southern Liberal, you are right about the intent of the one sentence Second Amendment, and this article you posted here explains that, and we all appreciate it!
Carson has a delusional and totally bizarre fixation with the Nazis and Hitlerism. Everything over which he disagrees with or that he sees wrong with America he tries to make some sort of ridiculous Hitler or 3rd Reich comparison.
Precisely why he’s unfit to be President.
Yes, Rustbelt Democrat, Carson is a strange, odd person, who has the weirdest views imaginable on so many things, and does not have the true so called “Christian spirit.”
He is typical of people who struggled and now do not give a damn about those who are struggling, wanting to forget his own struggles and condemn those who do not accomplish what he was able to do.
In comparison, we have Colin Powell in the present and Thurgood Marshall in the past, who did not forget the bad times they suffered through, and devoted their lives to concern for others beyond oneself.
In other words, selfishness, greed, and egotism mark Carson, while not true with Marshall in the past, and Powell even today, men to be proud of for their whole lives!
In potential match-ups with Carson, he beats Hillary. Ugh.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/07/politics/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-polling/index.html
Hooray! Hillary opposes the TPP! http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/hillary-clinton-comes-out-against-the-trans-pacific-partnership
The Koch Bros. new chosen one, now that Walker is out, is Fiorina. http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/07/politics/carly-fiorina-koch-brothers-official/
Well, Ed Schultz – still wish he were on MSNBC – will be happy about Hillary’s stance. 🙂
Obama’s supporters: very well informed and educated! Thank you Department of Education. Thank you Jimmy Carter. Thank you Teacher’s Union! You’ve done a great job! https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=248&v=6tjir3jSowQ
Ariel’s BS is soooooo not funny.
I’m also unamused by Ariel’s BS.
I see here Biden is also well informed and educated. Who knew that FDR got on TV to speak after the stock market crashed! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnKcRo8DNYY Liberals, they are soooo smart.
Ariel, you go after the Teachers Unions, because teachers should not be respected and allowed to have their own representation with school boards, which are notoriously corrupt and have no clue about education, correct?
You go after the Department of Education, because the GOP prefers to keep people ignorant, and has such brilliant figures in it, past and present, such as Dan Quayle, Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, and Kevin McCarthy, correct?
You go after Jimmy Carter, a brilliant statesman who knew how important educational standards and the environment are, and we have seen the destructiveness of the Republicans on both issues.
You are so clearly a troll, and the question is how much you are paid by the ignoramuses who have no interest in anything other than further concentration of wealth in the hands of the elite. You seem to have so much free time, which could be better utilized.
But then, your mission is to divide and create conflict, rather than try to make progress toward necessary change. The question is how you can live with yourself with your mission of obstruction and ridicule!
LOL! I was wondering when our troll was going to come out of the woodwork for the day.
I am glad, Ariel, that you are so brilliant and talented that you never make a mistake or flub. You must be insufferable to live with!
The difference with Joe Biden and Jimmy Carter is that they make real contributions, while Dan Quayle, Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, and Kevin McCarthy have no redeeming value at all, nothing positive that they have contributed!
D-Rep Hank Johnson!! Imagine a world without balloons! No helium for comedians! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dP_IzmgW0s
Ronald: This whole post here is about ridiculing Rubio! Then you and other commentators go on to insult and ridicule Dr. Carson. I am pretty sure all of you are having a great deal of fun doing this. So I thought I’d do the same! Anyway I would take Dr. Carson any day over Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Hank Johnson etc. Again, just thought I’d have some fun, just like you.
LOL! He thinks those were insults! LOL!
LOL! The GOTea troll can’t handle the truth!
It is great to learn, Ariel, that you have very low standards and cannot see the accomplishments and brilliance of Carter, Obama, Biden, and Pelosi. Pelosi is the best Speaker of the House since Tip O’Neill, and accomplished a great deal in her four years as Speaker. But of course, she is a woman, so the misogyny of the Right Wing must be employed against an intelligent woman, which is hard to find in the Republican membership of women in the House of Representatives.
So you celebrate ignorance of Quayle, Palin, Bachmann, McCarthy, and George W. Bush, because the intelligence of Carter, Obama, Biden and Pelosi scare you!
Ohh I get it. Democrats/progressive good, Republicans/conservative/libertarian evil, therefore we must forgive Democrats everything. After all they are the good guys and Republicans the bad guys. I get it now. Well you do realize that if we are automatically the evil ones for not sharing your solutions to America’s problem, then why on earth would you ever have the need to compromise or debate with us? You see you really don’t see the need, labeling us evil exonerates you from having to ever compromise and debate us. Without labeling us as evil/ignorant/stupid and demeaning our motives you would have to confront us and debate your ideas. And that would be a problem. Case in point. We don’t agree with the ACA solution, therefore we hate the poor, elderly and minorities. Done, debate over. You just can’t debate with evil ignorant fools. That’s the progressive modus operandi.
Thanks for the example you just provided: ” But of course, she is a woman, so the misogyny of the Right Wing must be employed against an intelligent woman, which is hard to find in the Republican membership of women in the House of Representatives.” See what I mean? You instantly disqualify us as mean, evil misogynist, thus ending any debate. Period. Never mind that we just don’t agree with Pelosi’s agenda. No, we are just plain evil. That has to be our motive, because only you are the good guys, and if we don’t agree with you then we must necessarily be the bad guys otherwise you have nothing to stand on.
Ariel, what is your program to deal with the problems of the elderly, poor, and minorities? Tell us what it is, which is, I am sure, Herbert Hoover’s “rugged individualism”.
And women have to be put in their place, right, Ariel, because they have the “nerve” to refuse to kowtow to GOP misogyny?
Since he can’t handle us telling it like it is here, it’s best that he goes back into the woodwork from whence he came.
FYI I do not support nor celebrate McCarthy and I did not support Bush because he was the biggest spender and the President who accumulated the most debt ever, that is until Barack Obama. Bush and the Republican establishment never ever reduced the size of government or its spending when the had control. And of course Bush wasn’t going to start once Pelosi gained the House.
There you go again: “And women have to be put in their place, right, Ariel, because they have the “nerve†to refuse to kowtow to GOP misogyny?” As Jorge Luis Borges said about the Peronists I can say about the “progressive” left : “It’s not that they are bad, it’s that they are incorrigible”
Colin Powell is the type of Republican we have respect for, one who is smart and reasonable.
Excellent critique of the die-hard conservatives.
http://themoderatevoice.com/209486/rinos/
Ariel, it is you and the far right that is incorrigible, and are unwilling to compromise and make government work.
The far right is out to destroy any chance of progress for more than the top one percent.
What we need is reasonable Republicans, in the mode of Colin Powell, as Princess Leia has suggested!
Even moderate blogs agree that the GOTea is out of touch with reality.
http://themoderatevoice.com/209335/the-gop-isnt-racist-or-sexist-it-is-tone-deaf-instead/
As that moderate blog says, the GOTea is dooming themselves by purging citizens with other ideas (RINOs) from the Republican Party.
Back to Carson…I don’t like how he’s blaming the victims.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/08/opinion/with-ben-carson-the-doctor-is-always-out.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=opinion-c-col-left-region®ion=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region&_r=0
Pragmatic Progressive, Dr Ben Carson is demonstrating how he does not have a clue on just about any subject–not just guns, but evolution, gravity, world affairs, etc.
He uses Nazi Germany as a reference all of the time, believes that straight people become gay in prison, does not understand separation of church and state, and so many other signs of total ignorance and naivete.
While a great surgeon in his past, politics and knowledge of issues and history is certainly not his forte.
I am not qualified to be a surgeon, and Carson is not qualified to be the leader of our nation, clear and simple!
You never know how you’re going to act until you’re actually faced with such a situation.
McCarthy has dropped out of the Speaker race.
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/kevin-mccarthy-abruptly-drops-house-speaker-bid-race-postponed
Ariel will be happy about that. LOL.
Amazing how a small minority of the Party is holding the rest of the Party hostage.
McCarthy was incompetent and purely stupid, but we could see an even worse candidate, a true Tea party right wing radical, as Speaker, endangering the nation, as that person would be two heartbeats away from the Presidency. This is a very worrisome situation!
What’s going to happen if they can’t agree on a new Speaker?
I predict a schism and we wind up with three parties for a while: The Democratic Party, The Conservative Governance Party, and the Tea Party Fanatics Party.
These are times that I wish that, not only Ed Schultz, were still on MSNBC, but also, Keith Olbermann.
John Boehner has agreed to stay on as Speaker until this issue of the next Speaker is resolved.
This is clearly a holy war between mainstream, responsible conservatives, and what I call the Fascist right wing, which must be rooted out like a cancer, so I think Boehner will be staying on for awhile, and the radio talk show host influence must be resisted by establishment conservatives at all cost!
Hillary’s switch on TPP isn’t genuine. http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/why-clintons-flip-flop-trade-so-unbelievable
Leia,
We can still see Ed on YouTube. http://wegoted.com/
I hear they’re trying to get Paul Ryan to run for Speaker.
And here goes another insult by the Professor: “and what I call the Fascist right wing, which must be rooted out like a cancer”. So tolerant of you.
“This is clearly a holy war between mainstream, responsible conservatives”… You mean those that are co-responsible with Democrats and Obama in adding $9 trillion more to our debt? Sounds like big government RINO’s to me. Yeah, really responsible, just like Barry.
Ariel, the Tea Party IS extremist, out to destroy the economy by shutting down the government, and refusing to raise the debt limit.
Whether you like it or not, the government must pay its debts, and taxpayers have the responsibility as good citizens to pay taxes without complaint. And the wealthy must take on more of the responsibility after massive tax breaks to them under Reagan and Bush II.
I would classify the Tea Party as extortionists.
Economic terrorists is another good description of them.
The GOP desperately needs to break apart, ditch its far-right extremist wing, and get back to being a sane, normal, functional conservative party. Currently, it’s anything but that.
LOL! Rupert Murdoch and Ben Carson don’t consider Obama to be a real black president.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2015/10/08/3710661/carson-murdoch-obama/
Man, there are just so many reasons for loathing Republicans! I so admire Obama for keeping his cool through all the “subtle” racist insults they’ve sent his was over the years.
Ronald: Are you saying that we must raise the debt limit to pay our debt? Are you sure about that? Do you understand how incoherent that sounds? As for the shut-down please tell me what percentage of the federal government would ACTUALLY shut-down. Finally you write about the wealthy having massive tax breaks, may I ask what was the effective tax rate when the top statutory marginal rate was 90%, 70%, 28%, 35% and 39%?
You are avoiding the issue of the massive tax breaks under Reagan and Bush Ii, as compared to FDR, Truman, Ike, Nixon. The “free ride”, which has created the greatest maldistribution of wealth in American history, needs to end NOW, Ariel!
Ronald, mine was a simple question and I did mention the Reagan tax cut, the top statutory marginal rate come down from 70% to 28%. Therefore I ask again, what were the effective tax rates when the top statutory marginal rate was 90%, 70%, 28%, 35% and 39%? You do know the difference between statutory marginal rate and effective rate , don’t you?
Ariel, why don’t you provide that information, since I am not a tax lawyer or accountant. Educate all of us! LOL
The effective tax rate is almost entirely independent of the statutory top marginal tax rate. The effective top marginal tax rate has never been above 30% and remained within the 20-30% range since post WWII (even when the statutory rate was above 90%).
From 1944-1963 an individual had to earn between $2.4-2.8 million(in 2014 dollars) before his income started being subjected to the top statutory marginal tax rate (90%), which effectively was about 25%.
In contrast, today a person has to earn just $400,000 before his income started being subjected to the top statutory marginal tax rate (39%), which effectively is a little above 20%.
Also the top effective rate under Reagan was always above 20% and wasn’t significantly different from the rates after(or before) he took office.
Furthermore the effective marginal tax rate during the Clinton years wasn’t significantly different than the rate during the Reagan years, or anytime else during US history.
Source: BLS, Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, National Bureau of Economic Research
But please answer these questions which you seem to avoid. Are you saying that we must raise the debt limit to pay our debt? As for the shut-down could you please tell me what percentage of the federal government would ACTUALLY shut-down?
Thanks for the explanation of tax rates, Ariel.
We must raise the debt limit to pay all debts due, but we cannot gut Social Security, Medicare, and defense spending, which take up most of the spending done by the federal government.
As far as shutting down the government, it cost billions of wasted money, and the leading nation in the world cannot allow itself to be shut down for any reason.
The “Freedom Caucus” cannot be allowed to blackmail the nation, and it must be overcome, with refusal to negotiate, and form a coalition government, as the only alternative until they are rooted out by massive campaigns to defeat them. They are a small minority, and they cannot be allowed to do any more damage to the federal government’s operation!
The debt ceiling sets the maximum amount the federal government can borrow to meet its existing obligations, such as paying out Social Security, military salaries, interest on the debt, etc. So the ceiling isn’t about finding new stuff to spend money on — it’s about fulfilling the obligations the government has already committed to.
If the government doesn’t pay it’s bills, it could wreak havoc on the financial market. Could have another recession or worse.
You are correct, Pragmatic Progressive.
But Ariel seems not to know that, or not care, and clearly, the “Freedom Caucus” has no clue and does not care what damage it can do to the leading economy in the world!
Since the GOTea don’t want to pay their bills, that means they aren’t fiscally conservative like they claim they are.