Gingrich is too friendly with Nancy Pelosi

Americans hate phoney republicans
real ones they love but RINOs not so much

It happened fairly regularly in the nineteenth century (Millard Fillmore & Franklin Pierce to name two), but it hasn't happened in quite some time. In 1980 Teddy Kennedy launched a pretty serious primary challenge of incumbent Jimmy Carter but came up short.

That being said, the idea of Hillary challenging Obama in the primary only exists in Doreen's imagination. Anybody that knows the first thing about politics knows there is no chance that happens.

Oh, I'm sure it exists in Hillary's imagination too

The fact that there are still people who think you can cut taxes to reduce the deficit is scary to me. Obama has done the former, no one who was elected was going to be able to do the latter in this climate. I love the "get rid of the deficit!" refrain without any specific explanations of how to do so.

The specifics are: cut spending, period. And yeah, that means welfare too.

Republicans in a nutshell. "Stop spending!" ... "On what?" ... "Stop spending!" ... "OK, which programs should be cut?" ... "Uh, I hate welfare!"

Why don't we cut out the largest part of what's causing the deficit over future years?

Since there is over two years left, what the heck, let's look at other polls, too (as nothing matters this far out) :D

But....I....but...but...small businesses.....but....welfare...but...I....uh.

Romney: the Christian right has already refused to vote for "a member of a cult" (Mormon)

Huckabee: Publically said dinosaurs and humans walked the earth together (an earth which is only 6,000 years old). Gets the above vote, not much else.

I wouldn't be surprised if it's down to Gingrich vs Romney at the convention.

This morning I was at a commercial business thing, talked to guys from the three biggest Lex banks about horse business, other small businesses - funding, future, credit, profitable business paradigms for the next 10-20 years, niche markets, etc. The money guys didn't seem to have any direction or idea whatsoever.

Tell them to invest in companies that focus on Obama and golfing.

huckabee is the male version of sarah palin. i can't stand him, and would never vote for him.


and yeah, two wars are the biggest drain by far. so much squandered by bush and company.

so there won't be a republican at the GOP convention


again

Hang in there, John, you've always got Rand Paul :tro:

How to get rid of the deficit: I used to be in favor of renewing Bush tax cuts. Now?

The budget shortfall due to "Bush Era Taxcuts" can be easily remedied, by cutting spending. Then there is no deficit.

Typical of Democrats to always want a higher budget, and then blame tax cuts for the shortfall. Stop spending so much and the deficit goes away.

That graph is biased and leftist due to the very fact that tax cuts are NOT expenditures.

What should be cut? I'd be willing to bet you won't say our biggest disproportionate expense, military spending.

You're right, spending should have been cut in 2001 and 2003. But the "Bush Era Taxcuts" were both passed completely unfunded at the time (no spending cuts to live within the lowered government income).

Now that decision is coming home to roost. Unfunded tax cuts and unfunded wars. Now we have to pay up for the years of spending what we didn't have.

The choice appears to be not renew the tax cuts (eliminating most of the huge deficit) or cut a rather huge amount of government spending to live within the lower income the tax cuts created.

Which spending to you want to cut?

:zz: The graph doesn't say tax cuts are expenditures. The graph isn't about expenditures at all. The graph shows the dollar amount of different things that have contributed to our huge deficit. I don't see what's "biased" or "leftist" about that. It's just the reality of it.

Well, if you're going to be THAT specific.....

Cut welfare. Done. Now I can keep my tax cut and everything will be okay.

MOR WARS TOO PLZ.