Posts Made By: Steve Thornton

She didn't even know what the 'Bush Doctrine' was. I knew what it was and she's running for the freakin' VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. It was a gimmick choice and the McCain aide aid as much.

"Arctic sea ice has declined dramatically over at least the past thirty years, with the most extreme decline seen in the summer melt season." - This comes directly from the National Snow and Ice Data Center. You need to quote real scientists, not half-baked climate change deniers who fabricate climate change stories. It took me all of two minutes to read it online.

This is from the site you refer to: "This site was founded by Robert A. Rohde as an extension of his hobby for playing with climate data and sharing his understanding by contributing content to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia under the pseudonym Dragons flight"

Sham science to prove a sham idea.

Maybe we shouldn't have saved any of the automakers in the aftermath of the Bush recession. Millions of jobs in the auto industry and related businesses lost overnight. Can you say Depression?

Well, I have to admit that televised meeting he had with the Republicans was a little unfair - 140 to 1 - to the Republicans. Here was a guy on top of all the issues talking to a bunch of kids who gave a 10-minute talking-points speech followed by a 10-second question.

Every mainstream economist has said we need to spend more to get out of this mess yet these holier-than-thou Republicans who caused this problem with their tax breaks for the rich and useless trillion-dollar war in Iraq are now born-again deficit hawks. Their hypocrisy is astounding.

Obama is spending the money for a cause, to get this country running again. All those tax breaks for the rich; that really worked well, didn't it?

It sounds to me like this event is going to be the GOP's last chance to either put up or shut up on health care. The Democrats larded in tax cuts in the Stimulus package in a bi-partisan attempt to pass it and what happened? Zero Republican votes yet they(the Republicans) were only to happy to clamor for money and pose for ribbon-cuttings in projects funded by the stimulus package. All you need to do is Google it. And you had Texas Governor Rick(let's talk about secession because of the stimulus) Perry gladly accept $11 million from stimulus money for repairing the governor's mansion after a fire. Their hypocrisy is stunning.

Bi-partisanship only works is both parties are willing to compromise. The Democrats have tried, the Republicans have not.

And here comes healthcare reform. The Dems have spent a year watering down the bill to get it passed and all they've gotten from Republicans are "death panels," "Pulling the plug on Granny" and the second coming of socialism. How socialism even enters the conversation is beyond me. Just the typical pablum you hear when from conservatives when they run out of arguments. Even with the House bill, The health insurers still have their anti-trust exempted monopoly and any public options proposed were to foster competition, which used to be the Republicans' holy grail, but I guess it got preempted by the $200 million the insurance lobby spent to fight reform.

And tort reform? California has had a cap on pain and suffering awards for more than 30 years. That didn't keep Wellpoint from announcing a 39% hike in premiums in California just a couple weeks ago. That "staunch capitalism" doesn't seem to work to well in a monopoly

I've got to give it to the Republican. They've been disciplined on their message of NO! to everything and the Dems have to get a spine and make the Republicans filibuster and go on the record as saying no. And if they persist, pass it through reconciliation like Bush did. The Dems have to make a stand and make the point that elections have consequences. After a year of having Republicans just saying no, it looks like we're getting to that point.

I think you guys are on the wrong forums; this is one of the Astromart forums; as in "Astronomy" and not "Astrology." In these forums, we actually believe in science. The scientific method means more than just going outside, seeing snow and asking, "What global warming?" It means looking at what climate change predicts, like more extreme weather. Like once-in-a-century blizzards in Washington DC and further north, in Vancouver, where they have to truck in snow for the Olympics because they've had the warmest January ever. What it doesn't mean is scouring the internet for any crackpot who has proof of the 'vast global warming conspiracy'.

Well, with Republicans in Congress having a 28% approval rating, people KNOW they were conned!
I would compare Obama's numbers with the Republican leaders, but they really don't have any, do they?

Darian Rachal said:

If you check this out, scroll down to the graph. This is the closest the two lines have come since Obama was elected. It appears to be only a matter of time until the disapproval numbers exceed the approval. I guess people are just realizing that they were conned.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_obama_job_approval-1044.html

Yeah, I guess everyone's beginning to miss those days of an economy falling off the cliff, a trillion-dollar war in Iraq, costing more than 4,500 lives of brave American soldiers and 20,000 wounded so we could get rid of one tin-horned dictator who had no WMD's, torturing as public policing by the Chicken Hawks in the Bush Administration, outing of CIA agents to bring down critics of the Iraq war, taking a budget surplus and then doubling the national debt from $5.7 to $10.7 trillion-to pay for what? Let's bring back those Republican economic policies. And Katrina? Enough said. Heckuva job Georgie!

Ah, we need to bring back the good ol' days.