Barack Obama President of the United States

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Oracle?
Re: McCain vs Obama 19 days to go
October 16, 2008 06:56PM
KM, that's priceless! I keep finding more things. There's something new behind the door every time you open it. And the wolf kill notches on the desk...peeing myself laughing. Even the sofa and the rug!

Who does this stuff?
Re: McCain vs Obama 19 days to go
October 16, 2008 10:31PM
Soooooo funnneeee!!!
Re: McCain vs Obama 19 days to go
October 17, 2008 08:03AM
Working linksmiling smiley

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Updated daily until Nov 4thumbs up

Somehow I pressed something not sure what the 'sticky; meanseye popping smiley Got it...it's stuck untill Nov 4



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Re: McCain vs Obama 18 days to go
October 17, 2008 11:24AM
Subject: article from Wall St Journal ..
A Liberal Supermajority
Get ready for 'change' we haven't seen since 1965, or 1933.Article

If the current polls hold, Barack Obama will win the White House on November 4 and Democrats will consolidate their Congressional majorities, probably with a filibuster-proof Senate or very close to it. Without the ability to filibuster, the Senate would become like the House, able to pass whatever the majority wants.

APThough we doubt most Americans realize it, this would be one of the most profound political and ideological shifts in U.S. history. Liberals would dominate the entire government in a way they haven't since 1965, or 1933. In other words, the election would mark the restoration of the activist government that fell out of public favor in the 1970s. If the U.S. really is entering a period of unchecked left-wing ascendancy, Americans at least ought to understand what they will be getting, especially with the media cheering it all on.
The nearby table shows the major bills that passed the House this year or last before being stopped by the Senate minority. Keep in mind that the most important power of the filibuster is to shape legislation, not merely to block it. The threat of 41 committed Senators can cause the House to modify its desires even before legislation comes to a vote. Without that restraining power, all of the following have very good chances of becoming law in 2009 or 2010.
- Medicare for all. When HillaryCare cratered in 1994, the Democrats concluded they had overreached, so they carved up the old agenda into smaller incremental steps, such as Schip for children. A strongly Democratic Congress is now likely to lay the final flagstones on the path to government-run health insurance from cradle to grave.
Mr. Obama wants to build a public insurance program, modeled after Medicare and open to everyone of any income. According to the Lewin Group, the gold standard of health policy analysis, the Obama plan would shift between 32 million and 52 million from private coverage to the huge new entitlement. Like Medicare or the Canadian system, this would never be repealed.
The commitments would start slow, so as not to cause immediate alarm. But as U.S. health-care spending flowed into the default government options, taxes would have to rise or services would be rationed, or both. Single payer is the inevitable next step, as Mr. Obama has already said is his ultimate ideal.
- The business climate. "We have some harsh decisions to make," Speaker Nancy Pelosi warned recently, speaking about retribution for the financial panic. Look for a replay of the Pecora hearings of the 1930s, with Henry Waxman, John Conyers and Ed Markey sponsoring ritual hangings to further their agenda to control more of the private economy. The financial industry will get an overhaul in any case, but telecom, biotech and drug makers, among many others, can expect to be investigated and face new, more onerous rules. See the "Issues and Legislation" tab on Mr. Waxman's Web site for a not-so-brief target list.
The danger is that Democrats could cause the economic downturn to last longer than it otherwise will by enacting regulatory overkill like Sarbanes-Oxley. Something more punitive is likely as well, for instance a windfall profits tax on oil, and maybe other industries.
- Union supremacy. One program certain to be given right of way is "card check." Unions have been in decline for decades, now claiming only 7.4% of the private-sector work force, so Big Labor wants to trash the secret-ballot elections that have been in place since the 1930s. The "Employee Free Choice Act" would convert workplaces into union shops merely by gathering signatures from a majority of employees, which means organizers could strongarm those who opposed such a petition.
The bill also imposes a compulsory arbitration regime that results in an automatic two-year union "contract" after 130 days of failed negotiation. The point is to force businesses to recognize a union whether the workers support it or not. This would be the biggest pro-union shift in the balance of labor-management power since the Wagner Act of 1935.
- Taxes. Taxes will rise substantially, the only question being how high. Mr. Obama would raise the top income, dividend and capital-gains rates for "the rich," substantially increasing the cost of new investment in the U.S. More radically, he wants to lift or eliminate the cap on income subject to payroll taxes that fund Medicare and Social Security. This would convert what was meant to be a pension insurance program into an overt income redistribution program. It would also impose a probably unrepealable increase in marginal tax rates, and a permanent shift upward in the federal tax share of GDP.
- The green revolution. A tax-and-regulation scheme in the name of climate change is a top left-wing priority. Cap and trade would hand Congress trillions of dollars in new spending from the auction of carbon credits, which it would use to pick winners and losers in the energy business and across the economy. Huge chunks of GDP and millions of jobs would be at the mercy of Congress and a vast new global-warming bureaucracy. Without the GOP votes to help stage a filibuster, Senators from carbon-intensive states would have less ability to temper coastal liberals who answer to the green elites.
- Free speech and voting rights. A liberal supermajority would move quickly to impose procedural advantages that could cement Democratic rule for years to come. One early effort would be national, election-day voter registration. This is a long-time goal of Acorn and others on the "community organizer" left and would make it far easier to stack the voter rolls. The District of Columbia would also get votes in Congress -- Democratic, naturally.
Felons may also get the right to vote nationwide, while the Fairness Doctrine is likely to be reimposed either by Congress or the Obama FCC. A major goal of the supermajority left would be to shut down talk radio and other voices of political opposition.
- Special-interest potpourri. Look for the watering down of No Child Left Behind testing standards, as a favor to the National Education Association. The tort bar's ship would also come in, including limits on arbitration to settle disputes and watering down the 1995 law limiting strike suits. New causes of legal action would be sprinkled throughout most legislation. The anti-antiterror lobby would be rewarded with the end of Guantanamo and military commissions, which probably means trying terrorists in civilian courts. Google and MoveOn.org would get "net neutrality" rules, subjecting the Internet to intrusive regulation for the first time.
It's always possible that events -- such as a recession -- would temper some of these ambitions. Republicans also feared the worst in 1993 when Democrats ran the entire government, but it didn't turn out that way. On the other hand, Bob Dole then had 43 GOP Senators to support a filibuster, and the entire Democratic Party has since moved sharply to the left. Mr. Obama's agenda is far more liberal than Bill Clinton's was in 1992, and the Southern Democrats who killed Al Gore's BTU tax and modified liberal ambitions are long gone.
In both 1933 and 1965, liberal majorities imposed vast expansions of government that have never been repealed, and the current financial panic may give today's left another pretext to return to those heydays of welfare-state liberalism. Americans voting for "change" should know they may get far more than they ever imagined.
Re: McCain vs Obama 18 days to go
October 17, 2008 01:02PM
Way to be a buzzkill there Wall Street Journal... raining on my socialist parade.
Oracle?
Re: McCain vs Obama 18 days to go
October 17, 2008 01:24PM
Republicans will label any program as "socialist" that benefits the majority of Americans. As a boomer, I directly benefited from many WPA programs enacted during the Roosevelt White House, and I'm looking forward to a return to jobs creation that helps rebuild our deteriorating infrastructure.

I would welcome radical healthcare reform. Does anyone know what percentage of medical costs go directly to administering insurance companies' bureaucracies? I seriously wish our Congress would enact legislation to eventually eliminate the entire industry. Imagine -- this industry regulates our healthcare and gets rich doing so. Insurance bureaucrats determine what treatment patients can have, even though the least treatment is in their best interest.

While I'm currently recuperating at home from surgery, I'm also waging a daily battle with all kinds of insurance companies, including healthcare and salary continuance. Hours and hours of phone calls (each call taking a huge chunk of time, being on hold and transferred to various voice mails that are never returned). Volumes of paperwork to be completed by me and my doctors. If any slight mistake is made, the entire claim is denied. Now, I do have the time now to fight, but what happens if a patient wasn't able to do this? It's mind boggling. And, this is WITH insurance! How about those Americans without insurance who lose their retirement savings, or their house, because of a single illness?

People have the right to vote for the party that will benefit them. I can't fault the small percentage of the wealthiest Americans for wanting to continue the currernt policies that protect their wealth. But more than 95% of Americans are a lot worse off than they were under Clinton.

Bring on the supermajority!
Re: McCain vs Obama 18 days to go
October 17, 2008 01:37PM
Sorry to hear about your insurance woes Oracle. It is becoming a quandry for all hard working Americans. So yes, onward to the Magic 60.

In the meantime, here's a little of what those good old boys on Wall Street have been up to in the previous years.

Fall of the Fat Cats
They were talking on the radio the other day about the "Obama bounce" which will affect the £/$ exchange rate. With a bit of luck it should benefit us tourists just in time for the Christmas spend.

With Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel throwing their weight behind the Obama campaign, it looks like full steam ahead!

On another note, I was watching on the t.v. last week that retail sales in the U.S. are down (like everywhere else!!) quite dramatically at the moment, due to current economic climate. Does anyone think that this might make Black Friday an even bigger haven for bargain hunters....??
Re: McCain vs Obama 15 days to go
October 21, 2008 07:27AM
Dear Friends,
One of the most important elections in United States history will take place this November 4, 2008. While only US citizens may vote in this election, much of the world is watching the race very closely. Faced with a growing financial crisis, climate change and global energy challenges, we all know that an uncertain future will be greatly defined by the next US president. For better or worse, we are all interconnected.
With this in mind, we have created TheWorldFor.com, an interactive web site where people all over the world can cast a vote for the next United States President. We invite all citizens of the world to participate:
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Re: McCain vs Obama 14 days to go
October 21, 2008 07:35PM
:www.sonorannews.com OCT 15-21Article by Linda BentleyPhiladelphia, PAOn Aug. 21, in an effort to prevent what might otherwise amount to the biggest fraud pulled off on the citizens of the United States, Attorney Phiilip Berg filed a complaint in U.S. District Court against Sen. Obama and the DNC over Obama's eligibility to hold the office of president of U.S.Berg, a registered DEMOCRAT and former chair of Montgomery County, Penn. Democratic Party, filed the lawsuit when the only document, a Hawaiian certificate of birth, produced as proof of Obama's citizenship was determined by forensic graphic specialist to be an altered and forged document!You can read the whole article at the above Web.
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Re: McCain vs Obama 13 days to go
October 22, 2008 06:23AM
Re: McCain vs Obama 11 days to go
October 24, 2008 12:17PM
McCain is in Denver today eye popping smiley

I hope to see Obama along with Ben Harper on Sunday afternoon cool smiley at Civic Center
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