Political Hippo Circle Jerk - America, farg YEAH!

[ice grillin you]

drunk people do white things

[MDS]

if it wasnt so swiss i would live in switzerland

[Rome]

Well there's a lyric I didn't expect to see quoted by you.

Haha

[ice grillin you]

I dont mind stealin bread from the mouths of decadence

i know things

[ice grillin you]

Gallup: "With the Republican-controlled House of Representatives engaged in a tense, government-shuttering budgetary standoff against a Democratic president and Senate, the Republican Party is now viewed favorably by 28% of Americans, down from 38% in September. This is the lowest favorable rating measured for either party since Gallup began asking this question in 1992."

[Diomedes]

I guarantee igy knows that line from some other context, not from listening to Temple of the Dog.

[Rome]

The country is careening towards total disaster and 1 in 4 idiots think they're doing great.

Rand Paul and his ilk should be thrown in shackles for this.  Too bad Obama isn't anything close to the monster they say he is.

[ice grillin you]

wow

http://www.salon.com/2013/10/10/obama_on_gop_the_only_thing_not_on_their_list_is_my_resignation/

[PhillyPhreak54]

The republican party is sickening.

[Sgt PSN]

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1805570-mike-dikta-says-biggest-mistake-was-not-opposing-barack-obama-in-04-senate-race?

Speaking as an honorary guest of North Dakota oil company Canary....

They really could have just started the article off by saying

Mike Ditka addressed a crowd of rich, old, white, republican extremists.....

[ice grillin you]

two things that have gone up massively under barry?

the stock market and wealthy disparity btw the rich and poor

all those guys should love him

guess why they dont?

[Seabiscuit36]

Like Mahr said friday.  "I just cant put my finger on why they hate him so much"

[Munson]

So, in an OpEd, Paul Ryan said this:

Here are just a few ideas to get the conversation started. We could ask the better off to pay higher premiums for Medicare. We could reform Medigap plans to encourage efficiency and reduce costs. And we could ask federal employees to contribute more to their own retirement.
The president has embraced these ideas in budget proposals he has submitted to Congress. And in earlier talks with congressional Republicans, he has discussed combining Medicare's Part A and Part B, so the program will be less confusing for seniors. These ideas have the support of nonpartisan groups like the Bipartisan Policy Center and the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, and they would strengthen these critical programs. And all of them would help pay down the debt.

And here is a response from Ezra Klein:

As Ryan notes, these are President Obama's ideas. Most of them are in his budget. Right now. The budget he wants to pass. Which raises the obvious question: If Obama supports these ideas and these ideas are what the Republican Party needs to end the shutdown and raise the debt ceiling then what's the problem?

The problem is taxes. The deal Obama proposes in his budget is he'll agree to those entitlement reforms and more (Ryan doesn't even mention chained-CPI) if Republicans agree to raise tax revenues by cutting various tax breaks. This is also the kind of deal proposed by the Bipartisan Policy Center and the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

But Republicans don't want to raise taxes. They want to get the spending cuts they support in return for nothing. And that's what the shutdown/debt-ceiling fight is about now. The Republicans believe that instead of trading taxes for entitlement cuts they can trade reopening the government and raising the debt ceiling for entitlement cuts. Since they actually support reopening the government and raising the debt ceiling that means they're not trading anything at all.

[Diomedes]

...things that have gone up massively under barry?

gun sales

[ice grillin you]

yeah that too

it miraculously went from he was going to take everyones guns to people have more guns than ever