• Administration to Tea Parties: We're on Your Side
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[quote=Fox News]Tea Partiers, the Obama administration is on your side. That's been the message from the White House over the past few days, as top officials dispute charges that Washington is on a spending binge and encourage conservative protesters to count their blessings. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, when asked about the Tea Party protests, said in an interview Sunday that the Obama administration is paying more attention to deficit and spending concerns than the Bush administration did. "We've just been through eight years where many people said deficits don't matter. We can pass huge tax cuts, pass huge new programs without paying for them. That debate has changed fundamentally," Geithner said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "You don't hear people say anymore deficits don't matter. You don't hear people saying we can pass enormous expansions in government without paying for it. That's an important change." And President Obama said at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser Thursday that Tea Party activists should "be saying thank you" to him for the tax cuts passed by his administration. The change in tone comes as surveys show distrust in the government is rising to historic levels. A Pew Research Center survey released on Monday found almost 80 percent of Americans say they don't trust Washington. Dana Perino, former White House press secretary under the Bush administration and a Fox News contributor, said that the Obama administration is wise to try to appeal to the Tea Partiers. But she said the claim that Obama is tackling the deficit is off base. "He's right, in one sense, to finally stop degrading people who affiliate with the Tea Party movement. But if his policies meshed up with his rhetoric, it would probably be a stronger sell point," Perino said. Obama has established a bipartisan commission to study ways to bring down the national debt and rein in deficits. But his spending has far outpaced that of his predecessor. President Bush ran up a $458.6 billion deficit during his last full year in office. Obama ran up a $1.4 trillion deficit in fiscal 2009 -- that covered part of Bush's final year, but budget projections show deficits will continue to top $1 trillion for several years under Obama.[/quote] Source: [url]http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/04/19/administration-tea-parties/[/url] Chao Tonight News Comment: [Quote= Boxer of Animal farm page 71, chapter VII]If Comrade Napoleon says it, it must be right.[/quote] GNN News Comment: I trust Obama about as much as I trust Napoleon.
Did you like just discover Animal Farm or something? [editline]06:55PM[/editline] Also, reasoning with the unreasonable can only end in tears
No, I just started quoting it. I discovered it back in high school.
[QUOTE=Glaber;21453183]Source: [url]http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/04/19/administration-tea-parties/[/url] Chao Tonight News Comment: GNN News Comment: I trust Obama about as much as I trust Napoleon.[/QUOTE] George Orwell was a Socialist FYI.
[QUOTE=Mingebox;21453319]George Orwell was a Socialist FYI.[/QUOTE] Tell it to Fox News, that's the only way he's gonna listen.
[QUOTE=Mingebox;21453319]George Orwell was a Socialist FYI.[/QUOTE] So?
lol :foxnews:
[quote]President Bush ran up a $458.6 billion deficit during his last full year in office. Obama ran up a $1.4 trillion deficit in fiscal 2009[/quote] Bush lit the fuse of the gunpowder keg and left.
[QUOTE=IliekBoxes;21453384]So?[/QUOTE] It's funny seeing the "Obama is a socialist" crowd quote him so often. It's also funny when Social Conservatives quote Ayn Rand.
[QUOTE]A Pew Research Center survey released on Monday found almost 80 percent of Americans say they don't trust Washington.[/QUOTE] [IMG]http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/us_2001/washington_ref_2001.jpg[/IMG] [B]"I don't like the look of Washington"[/B]
[QUOTE=Mingebox;21453319]George Orwell was a Socialist FYI.[/QUOTE] Doesn't make him any less of a great author. Also it doesn't matter what you were when you wrote something. If it can be used against your ideology, chances are it will.
God damn, Obama, when are you going to realize that they WILL NOT REASON.
[QUOTE=Glaber;21453622]Doesn't make him any less of a great author. Also it doesn't matter what you were when you wrote something. If it can be used against your ideology, chances are it will.[/QUOTE] Except you can't use it because it's not even a critique of Socialism.
[QUOTE=Glaber;21453622]Doesn't make him any less of a great author. Also it doesn't matter what you were when you wrote something. If it can be used against your ideology, chances are it will.[/QUOTE] this isn't "chances are", this is something you are doing. You are using the works of an author to criticize an ideology that the author himself supported. animal farm isn't a criticism of socialism or communism in general, it's a criticism of stalinism
Stop posting. You're just making yourself look like an ass.
[QUOTE=Glaber;21453622]Doesn't make him any less of a great author. Also it doesn't matter what you were when you wrote something. If it can be used against your ideology, chances are it will.[/QUOTE] So you are condoning twisting someone's words to suit your own agenda, then?
Republicans: "What? They're not supposed to be on our side! This is an outrage!" *Rabble rabble rabble/go shoot at things*
[quote]"You don't hear people say anymore deficits don't matter. You don't hear people saying we can pass enormous expansions in government without paying for it. That's an important change."[/quote] Sure they're not saying it, but that hasn't stopped them from doing it.
I love this political cartoon. [img]http://6.media.tumblr.com/LU4vhdDfUlez4sodzTNdDRvbo1_500.gif[/img]
[QUOTE=Wakka;21457251]go shoot at things[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=926080[/url] ..Only a matter of time.
[QUOTE=ASmellyOgre;21457423]I love this political cartoon. [img]http://6.media.tumblr.com/LU4vhdDfUlez4sodzTNdDRvbo1_500.gif[/img][/QUOTE] That's so subtle.
Haha that is incredible
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