***OFFICIAL*** October Labor Report Complaint Thread

[CosmicCowboy]

wow. You have swallowed so much koolaid I'll bet you piss blue.

Admit he ed up and squandered the opportunities he had when he first came in office with like a 90% approval rating and controlled both the house and had a 60 vote majority in the senate. He ignored the economy and pissed off all that good will with a pork laden stimulus plan and obamacare that people didn't want. It was a ing monumental miscalculation on his part and he is paying for it now.

[Th'Pusher]

wow. You have swallowed so much koolaid I'll bet you piss blue.

Admit he ed up and squandered the opportunities he had when he first came in office with like a 90% approval rating and controlled both the house and had a 60 vote majority in the senate. He ignored the economy and pissed off all that good will with a pork laden stimulus plan and obamacare that people didn't want. It was a ing monumental miscalculation on his part and he is paying for it now.

Paying for it? Really? Don't you have a bet that Obama is going to win a second term? A second term is a strange way to pay for such a ing monumental miscalculation...

[ElNono]

Admit he ed up and squandered the opportunities he had when he first came in office with like a 90% approval rating and controlled both the house and had a 60 vote majority in the senate. He ignored the economy and pissed off all that good will with a pork laden stimulus plan and obamacare that people didn't want. It was a ing monumental miscalculation on his part and he is paying for it now.

Meh, I won't say he didn't squander an opportunity, but let's be realistic here. TARP passed in October, he won the election in November, and had to jump smack in the middle of a royal economic meltdown in January and with two wars in progress. Other than the stimulus (which wasn't going to show an immediate impact anyway, nothing would have), he kept basically Bush's policies in place (both on the wars, the tax cuts, the detroit bailot, etc) in his first year. The second 'big' legislation moved was the ACA, and that wasn't until 2010. By the end of 2010 he lost control of Congress, and obviously the GOP patriots moved in to basically shut government down (putting it nicely).

His window was basically two years, and he used it to move both legislation that was needed (you could agree or disagree that the stimulus was the way to go, and in hindsight everything is easy, but something had to be done back then with the economy tanking badly) or heavy duty legislation (reforming healthcare, which took many months, because they actually were negotiation with the GOP and all parties involved until they figured out the tactic was to stall it).

So sure, in hindsight he probably should've moved smaller things quicker during that period, but once Congress was lost, there was no coming back. When the speaker says his utmost priority is to make sure the president fails, there's no room for bi-partisanship.

[Nbadan]

No, it's not at all. Bush never had to prove his innocence because the only people who believe he engineered 9/11 are tin-foil hat wearing troofers no one takes seriously. That's a conspiracy theory every president would face if 9/11 happened under their watch. Just as an example, there are re s in this country who think Obama used weather modification to engineer hurricane sandy, but that's not something I consider particular to Obama. There is a handful of people in this country who shout conspiracy whenever they possibly can.

the anti-911 family movement

[Jacob1983]

Obama never had an approval rating of 90 percent. I think the highest approval rating Obama has ever had as president is probably 65 to 70 percent. Evil Bush had an approval rating of 90 percent in the weeks after 9/11.