by INFORUM
Obama: ‘Broken’ politics need help from Minnesotans
August 15, 2011 at 9:12 am in INFORUM
CANNON FALLS, Minn. – President Barack Obama urged the 500 people gathered along the Cannon River today to tell members of Congress: “It is time to for games to stop. It is time to put country first.” Continue Reading
Here’s what we need: Less campaigning, more results.
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Gotta love those new shiny buses at a a cost of $2.2 million to us taxpayers. I guess there is no recession in Washington.
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“Broken politics”? Who does he think ran the place for the last two years? I don’t think Obama is just out of touch with voters, I think he is out of touch with reality. Oh, if you Google “Obama blames”, you get 6,890,000 results.
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There was only 500 people? That is funny!! Bush had like 8,000 in Fargo a few years ago and I believe they turned people away. I didn’t read the whole acticle, but who is he blaming today for the crapper we are in?
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A few years ago? Oh, you mean 10 years ago, shortly after he was elected President and hadn’t done anything.
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Fargo: 200,000 metro + universities in session
Cannon falls: 4,000 metro + no universities period
So, putting it into perspective, the Cannon Falls appearance had about 300% greater attendance (ignoring the universities) than the Fargo one.
But all that is a moot point anyway… What exactly are you trying to get at?
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I’m sure all 500 were carefully screened to make sure none had anthing more than room temperature numbers for IQ’s, or in other words were Democrat party faithful.
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Well, then you’d be wrong. All were welcome.
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Even the strong Democrats are tired of the obama b.s. Enough of him, they should have chaed him out of town on a rail.
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Actually, we’re sick of him perpetuating Bush policies. We wanted a Liberal, not someone who makes Reagan look Liberal. (Reagan if you will recall raised taxes 11 times, even Bush Sr. raised taxes to pay our debts).
I wanted Single Payer Healthcare. Withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan. The closing of Gitmo. The end of the Patriot Act. The list goes on and on. I’m disappointed in him but I will not vote for any of the Republican extremists running now. They’re the ones running us into the ground. Politics are about COMPROMISE, not ramming your views down others throats and claiming God is on your side.
All this complaining about Obamacare neglects to mention that it’s basically the 1994 Republican healthcare reform plan. They spent nearly a year talking about it before implementing it. The Voter IQ in this country is very very low if they don’t see these things. It was as step in the right direction but not far enough.
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Figures the smartest argument laid out on here would get downvoted.
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Obamacare and this green crap are just tools to redistribute income and assets from the productive private sector to slackers and shysters.
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“The Voter IQ in this country is very very low…”
You’re certainly right about that – look who was elected POTUS in 2008…
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Mr President all the games can eaisily stop and you and Congress have the power to do it. But you won’t, you are like every other politican we’ve seen for the past 50 years…you want all the credit for anything good and none of the blame when things go bad…..The true leaders…men who everyone respects give all the credit to others and take all the blame on themselves. Here are 12 steps you can use to “stop the games.”
1. Term limits at every level.
2. Lobbyist donations, paid vacations or gifts to politicians or their families made illegal.
3. Donations from any corporation, union or group larger than 20 people to any political party in one year capped at $1,000.
4. All budgets must be balanced.
5. All members of congress serve their terms in their home districts, they vote electronically and use video conferencing for committee meetings.
6. Members of congress daily schedules posted on their website and a web cam installed in their office so anyone can log into to see who they meeting with and ensure they aren’t doing anything perverted with interns, pages or prostitutes.
7. Only one major piece of legislation allowed per bill (no adding riders to bills).
8. No bill can be over 20 pages in length and must be posted on-line for 72 hours.
9. Line item veto for Presidents.
10. Line item veto overruled by 2/3 of Congress.
11. Members of Congress and the President participate in Social Security and Medicare.
12. Congressional and Presidential raises are voted on every 4 years during Presidential elections.
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Politics are broken if Obama doesn’t have a rubber stamp Congress? That rubber stamp Congress and Obama got us in this mess of out of control spending in the first place.
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