The GOP has placed its future in the hands of a Senator with 9 months experience

[tinydancer]

The problem with today's Senate is precisely the fact that too many of the old men and women have too much experience.

Aka Inside the Beltway backroom dealers.

Aka Inside the Beltway no ability to think outside of Washington, DC.

Aka egomaniacs like McCain and Shumer who really do believe they rule from on high like the Senators from Rome.

 

[rightwinger]

The problem with today's Senate is precisely the fact that too many of the old men and women have too much experience.

Aka Inside the Beltway backroom dealers.

Aka Inside the Beltway no ability to think outside of Washington, DC.

Aka egomaniacs like McCain and Shumer who really do believe they rule from on high like the Senators from Rome.

Let's let a TeaTard run things!

 

[Trajan]

^that

unreal.......

this is for you and RW.....





Even after three or four years of [e]ducation many students still cannot recognize reasoning when they encounter it. They have little grasp of the difference between merely "saying something" and constructing an explanation or formulating an argument. This is often reinforced by college instructors who urge students to regard all theories, intellectual perspectives and views as ideology—without acknowledging the differences between theories, beliefs, hypotheses, interpretations and other categories of thought.

This impedes students from acquiring habits of intellectual responsibility. Far too often, teachers and texts insist upon a "verdictive" approach, a politicized view of issues. Whatever your stance regarding the "culture wars" and the politics of higher education, it is undeniable that a great many graduating students have little idea of what genuine intellectual exploration involves. Too often, learning to think is replaced by ideological scorekeeping, and the use of adjectives replaces the use of arguments.

Such blinkered thinking has serious implications for civic culture and political discourse. It discourages finding out what the facts are, revising one's beliefs on the basis of those facts and being willing to engage with people who don't already agree with you. What does that leave us with? A brittle, litmus-test version of politics. It is one thing if people move too quickly from argumentation to name-calling; it is another to be unable to tell the difference.,


http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324577304579055511904387286.html?mod=opinion_newsreel

Wow.....I am impressed



Totally unrelated to the topic at hand, but a beautiful cut and paste

Ted Cruz would be proud of you

You should read it , slowly and think on it.....really.

 

[Trajan]

Ok, I will take that as meaning you haven't heard Cruz produce anything remotely resembling a "vision" either.

Not using your parameters, no. Nor should he.

 

[Trajan]

The problem with today's Senate is precisely the fact that too many of the old men and women have too much experience.

Aka Inside the Beltway backroom dealers.

Aka Inside the Beltway no ability to think outside of Washington, DC.

Aka egomaniacs like McCain and Shumer who really do believe they rule from on high like the Senators from Rome.

It's no accident that 4 of top ten richest counties are the suburbs of D.C. either.

I said it last week, the "establishment" , start at 2000 if you like, has screwed us all.

 

[Stephanie]

I'm still cracking up over this thread

they put our country in the hands of a community agitator with only 144 days as a newly ELECTED JUNIOR Senator IN CONGRESS before he decided to bless us all with running for President

yet they have THE NERVE to post this....

I go keep laughing

 

[rightwinger]

unreal.......

this is for you and RW.....





Even after three or four years of [e]ducation many students still cannot recognize reasoning when they encounter it. They have little grasp of the difference between merely "saying something" and constructing an explanation or formulating an argument. This is often reinforced by college instructors who urge students to regard all theories, intellectual perspectives and views as ideology—without acknowledging the differences between theories, beliefs, hypotheses, interpretations and other categories of thought.

This impedes students from acquiring habits of intellectual responsibility. Far too often, teachers and texts insist upon a "verdictive" approach, a politicized view of issues. Whatever your stance regarding the "culture wars" and the politics of higher education, it is undeniable that a great many graduating students have little idea of what genuine intellectual exploration involves. Too often, learning to think is replaced by ideological scorekeeping, and the use of adjectives replaces the use of arguments.

Such blinkered thinking has serious implications for civic culture and political discourse. It discourages finding out what the facts are, revising one's beliefs on the basis of those facts and being willing to engage with people who don't already agree with you. What does that leave us with? A brittle, litmus-test version of politics. It is one thing if people move too quickly from argumentation to name-calling; it is another to be unable to tell the difference.,


http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324577304579055511904387286.html?mod=opinion_newsreel

Wow.....I am impressed



Totally unrelated to the topic at hand, but a beautiful cut and paste

Ted Cruz would be proud of you

You should read it , slowly and think on it.....really.

A concession that you have nothing to offer

But a damn nice try though

 

[hortysir]

Let's put it this way....

If Obama pulled this shit when he was Senator, he never would have been elected President

Neither will Cruz

Bullshit
How many "present" votes?
How hard did he fight to keep from raising the debt ceiling?

Obama could be caught with a body in the trunk and you lemmings would say he was giving the stiff a ride.

None......Obama never voted present while a US Senator
How many has Ted Cruz voted present?

You're right. Obama just did NOT vote because he was out campaigning

 

[hortysir]

Shutting down the government, which is costing taxpayers billions of dollars, until their demands are met equates to economic terrorism, Yurt. Corporations are losing money over imports stranded in dockside warehouses because there are no customs inspectors. The tourism industry is being hammered financially because of the shutdown of the national parks. Restaurants and other food services that cater to workers who have been furloughed are losing money. Everywhere you look there are signs of economic terrorism.

Little wonder that 72% of the American people are opposed to what the Republicans are doing to the nation's economy by shutting down the government.

Please support the highlighted areas

 

[rightwinger]

Bullshit
How many "present" votes?
How hard did he fight to keep from raising the debt ceiling?

Obama could be caught with a body in the trunk and you lemmings would say he was giving the stiff a ride.

None......Obama never voted present while a US Senator
How many has Ted Cruz voted present?

You're right. Obama just did NOT vote because he was out campaigning

Looks like you guys are 0 for 2

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

None......Obama never voted present while a US Senator
How many has Ted Cruz voted present?

You're right. Obama just did NOT vote because he was out campaigning

Looks like you guys are 0 for 2

It also looks like we're completely broke.


Wonder why

 

[Derideo_Te]

Shutting down the government, which is costing taxpayers billions of dollars, until their demands are met equates to economic terrorism, Yurt. Corporations are losing money over imports stranded in dockside warehouses because there are no customs inspectors. The tourism industry is being hammered financially because of the shutdown of the national parks. Restaurants and other food services that cater to workers who have been furloughed are losing money. Everywhere you look there are signs of economic terrorism.

Little wonder that 72% of the American people are opposed to what the Republicans are doing to the nation's economy by shutting down the government.

Please support the highlighted areas

No problem.

Shutdown Will Cost U.S. Economy $300 Million a Day, IHS Says - Bloomberg

A partial shutdown of the federal government will cost the U.S. at least $300 million a day in lost economic output at the start, according to IHS Inc.

While that is a small fraction of the country’s $15.7 trillion economy, the daily impact of a shutdown is likely to accelerate if it continues as it depresses confidence and spending by businesses and consumers.
Lexington, Massachusetts-based IHS, a global market research firm, estimates that its forecast for 2.2 percent annualized growth in the fourth quarter will be reduced 0.2 percentage point in a weeklong shutdown. A 21-day closing like the one in 1995-96 could cut growth by 0.9 to 1.4 percentage point, according to Guy LeBas, chief fixed income strategist at Janney Montgomery Scott LLC in Philadelphia.
“Government spending touches every aspect of the economy, and disruption of spending, more than the direct loss of income, threatens to damage investor and business confidence in ways that can seriously harm economic growth,” LeBas said yesterday in an interview.


If a shutdown drags on, it would start to shake consumer and business confidence more broadly, economists said. Household spending accounts for 70 percent of the economy.
Bank of America Merrill Corp. projects that a two-week closing would curb fourth-quarter growth by 0.5 percentage point, while closing for all of October would shave 2 percentage points from GDP, Ethan Harris, co-head of global economics research, wrote in a note to clients.
A shutdown will probably add to the budget deficit because it “is costly to stop and start programs,” Harris wrote.
Congress and the White House also will face off over raising the nation’s $16.7 trillion debt ceiling. The Treasury has said its ability to borrow will end on about Oct. 17 unless the limit is increased. Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew has said that failing to raise the limit would risk putting the U.S. into default and could be “catastrophic.”
“The longer the shutdown, the more damage will accrue to business and consumer confidence,” Eric Green, New York-based global head of foreign exchange, rates and commodities at TD Securities USA LLC, wrote in a note. “A longer shutdown stretching into mid-October, when the Treasury estimated that the debt ceiling will need to be raised, would likely magnify the hit to economic activity by raising the risk of a bad outcome on the debt ceiling.”

Government shutdown: What's the cost? - CBS News

Shutting down the government could cost the federal government well over $2 billion dollars if it resembles the last shutdowns in 1995-1996, though the economy would be harmed in additional ways that are nearly impossible to measure.

The Office of Management and Budget estimated that two government shutdowns in 1995 and 1996, totaling 27 days, cost the federal government $1.4 billion. That's over $2 billion in today's dollars on costs like back pay to furloughed federal workers and uncollected fines and taxes. That number doesn't begin to account for intangible losses in worker morale and productivity, and confidence in the federal government.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Shutting down the government, which is costing taxpayers billions of dollars, until their demands are met equates to economic terrorism, Yurt. Corporations are losing money over imports stranded in dockside warehouses because there are no customs inspectors. The tourism industry is being hammered financially because of the shutdown of the national parks. Restaurants and other food services that cater to workers who have been furloughed are losing money. Everywhere you look there are signs of economic terrorism.

Little wonder that 72% of the American people are opposed to what the Republicans are doing to the nation's economy by shutting down the government.

Please support the highlighted areas

No problem.

Shutdown Will Cost U.S. Economy $300 Million a Day, IHS Says - Bloomberg

A partial shutdown of the federal government will cost the U.S. at least $300 million a day in lost economic output at the start, according to IHS Inc.

While that is a small fraction of the country’s $15.7 trillion economy, the daily impact of a shutdown is likely to accelerate if it continues as it depresses confidence and spending by businesses and consumers.
Lexington, Massachusetts-based IHS, a global market research firm, estimates that its forecast for 2.2 percent annualized growth in the fourth quarter will be reduced 0.2 percentage point in a weeklong shutdown. A 21-day closing like the one in 1995-96 could cut growth by 0.9 to 1.4 percentage point, according to Guy LeBas, chief fixed income strategist at Janney Montgomery Scott LLC in Philadelphia.
“Government spending touches every aspect of the economy, and disruption of spending, more than the direct loss of income, threatens to damage investor and business confidence in ways that can seriously harm economic growth,” LeBas said yesterday in an interview.


If a shutdown drags on, it would start to shake consumer and business confidence more broadly, economists said. Household spending accounts for 70 percent of the economy.
Bank of America Merrill Corp. projects that a two-week closing would curb fourth-quarter growth by 0.5 percentage point, while closing for all of October would shave 2 percentage points from GDP, Ethan Harris, co-head of global economics research, wrote in a note to clients.
A shutdown will probably add to the budget deficit because it “is costly to stop and start programs,” Harris wrote.
Congress and the White House also will face off over raising the nation’s $16.7 trillion debt ceiling. The Treasury has said its ability to borrow will end on about Oct. 17 unless the limit is increased. Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew has said that failing to raise the limit would risk putting the U.S. into default and could be “catastrophic.”
“The longer the shutdown, the more damage will accrue to business and consumer confidence,” Eric Green, New York-based global head of foreign exchange, rates and commodities at TD Securities USA LLC, wrote in a note. “A longer shutdown stretching into mid-October, when the Treasury estimated that the debt ceiling will need to be raised, would likely magnify the hit to economic activity by raising the risk of a bad outcome on the debt ceiling.”

Government shutdown: What's the cost? - CBS News

Shutting down the government could cost the federal government well over $2 billion dollars if it resembles the last shutdowns in 1995-1996, though the economy would be harmed in additional ways that are nearly impossible to measure.

The Office of Management and Budget estimated that two government shutdowns in 1995 and 1996, totaling 27 days, cost the federal government $1.4 billion. That's over $2 billion in today's dollars on costs like back pay to furloughed federal workers and uncollected fines and taxes. That number doesn't begin to account for intangible losses in worker morale and productivity, and confidence in the federal government.

Funny you morons only worry about the cost of something if you can attribute it to the right.

 

[Derideo_Te]

Please support the highlighted areas

No problem.

Shutdown Will Cost U.S. Economy $300 Million a Day, IHS Says - Bloomberg




Government shutdown: What's the cost? - CBS News

Shutting down the government could cost the federal government well over $2 billion dollars if it resembles the last shutdowns in 1995-1996, though the economy would be harmed in additional ways that are nearly impossible to measure.

The Office of Management and Budget estimated that two government shutdowns in 1995 and 1996, totaling 27 days, cost the federal government $1.4 billion. That's over $2 billion in today's dollars on costs like back pay to furloughed federal workers and uncollected fines and taxes. That number doesn't begin to account for intangible losses in worker morale and productivity, and confidence in the federal government.

Funny you morons only worry about the cost of something if you can attribute it to the right.

Even funnier that you Republicans only complain about wasteful government spending when you can attribute it to the left.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

No problem.

Shutdown Will Cost U.S. Economy $300 Million a Day, IHS Says - Bloomberg




Government shutdown: What's the cost? - CBS News

Funny you morons only worry about the cost of something if you can attribute it to the right.

Even funnier that you Republicans only complain about wasteful government spending when you can attribute it to the left.

Wrong.

Plenty of us have bitched about Bush's spending as well as calling for an end to corporate welfare.

You are full of it as most of you are

 

[Contumacious]

Are they freaking crazy?

They allow him to dictate that we should shut down the government?

They have allowed libertarians to take over their party. .

Libertarians ?

Who the fuck are they?

We are still considered a fringe political party.

Communism, fascism, that's what trending!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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[Derideo_Te]

Funny you morons only worry about the cost of something if you can attribute it to the right.

Even funnier that you Republicans only complain about wasteful government spending when you can attribute it to the left.

Wrong.

Plenty of us have bitched about Bush's spending as well as calling for an end to corporate welfare.

You are full of it as most of you are

In which case you won't have any trouble providing a recent post of yours where you were berating the Republicans for wasting billions of taxpayer dollars by shutting down the government, right?

 

[rightwinger]

You're right. Obama just did NOT vote because he was out campaigning

Looks like you guys are 0 for 2

It also looks like we're completely broke.


Wonder why

Why don't you tell us?

tell us about 2 unfunded wars
Tell us about passing tax cuts while we go to war
Tell us about standing by and doing nothing while our economy crashes

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Looks like you guys are 0 for 2

It also looks like we're completely broke.


Wonder why

Why don't you tell us?

tell us about 2 unfounded wars
Tell us about passing tax cuts while we go to war
Tell us about standing by and doing nothing while our economy crashes

Have you looked under your bed lately? I bet Bush is under there


Idiot

 

[Contumacious]

Looks like you guys are 0 for 2

It also looks like we're completely broke.


Wonder why

Why don't you tell us?

tell us about 2 unfounded wars
Tell us about passing tax cuts while we go to war

OK, then , next time the fuckers decide to invade Timbuktu, get your democratic friends to unfund it. I will join you then.

But let me remind you that your messiah was gung-ho to invade Syria.

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