THANK you.

Senate democrats pay women less for the same work their male counterparts do http://freebeacon.com/senate-dems-betray-lilly/ and haven't passed a budget since this administration took power. This is a fact even though both the House and Senate were democrat controlled for the first two years of this administration. Also, you had better go to http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/vote_menu_112_2.htm for your non-partisan fact finding missions instead of ranting without showing proof. Also check the actual web site for the House side to find out that budgets and other bills have been passed there but the Senate, controlled by the democrats, refuse to vote on them. One thing this administration has been good for is keeping people on unemployment benefits, which in my personal experience pays less than working a full-time job, and drags down the economy by not creating more jobs. Good job Nick!

Remember that "Team Obama" gave those tax cuts to the rich, so you are obviously being a hypocrite for failing to point out the full facts. Give credit to Obama for cutting the military though. Thousands of troops are losing their futures thanks to this administration, but you don't really care about veterans do you? Did you even serve in the military like a lot of us have?
Immigration reform could have been achieved by the democrats while they controlled both houses of congress and the presidency, but instead chose not enforce existing laws on the books. What reason was there that they did not do it while they had all that power? Why were they so focused on taking $700 billion out of Medicare to pay for their new plan? (http://www.forbes.com/sites/aroy/2012/08/13/yes-obamacare-cuts-medicare-more-than-president-romney-would/). They spent so much time on that single issue that the middle class suffered for lack of jobs. By the way, should you actually pay federal taxes, illegal immigrant families should be thanking you for your contribution to their "tax refunds". Harry Reid likes handing out taxpayer money for this purpose according to http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/23/Sen-Reid-Blocking-Ban-On-4-Billion-Illegal-Immigrant-Tax-Credit-Loophole.

Perhaps they were blocked because they would terrible for the country.

What was passed when the Dems had control of the House and Senate? Oh that's right - Affordable Health Care act with NO bipartisan talk and/or input. Maybe the fact that during an administration in which we were spending well beyond our means we should have had some people in Washington saying NO and "blocking" new spending from hitting the street. The success of an administration should not be the number of new government programs they can get in from of the house. Also - Nick, your ight want to double check but a fair number of Dems also "blocked" many of these proposals - even the presidents own party is saying Enough is Enough...we have to stop the spending

Nick, I agree 100%
They make no sense, because they are blinded by greed, power amd they can't accept defeat!
I feel bad for Obama. It's rough cleaning up after a herd of elephants.

martin, bob: Four years ago we were losing 500,000 jobs a month. My 401k looked like a 201k. We were at war in Iraq. Bin Laden was a threat to our security. GM and Chrysler were at death's door. My natural gas bill was out of control. Today, we are adding jobs every month. My 401k is back to a point where I am no longer afraid to open the statements. Our brave men and women are out of Iraq. Bin Laden is dead. GM and Chrysler are thriving. I am paying less for natural gas than any point in the last 15 years.
Yes, I would say I am better off than I was four years ago.

Matt - even the presidents DoD opposed the proposed amendment. I have got an idea Mr. President - get your house in order and then ask the good people of Congress to vote on somehthing. Out of context the Anit-Rape Amd. seem like a no brainer but like so many things the bigger and more detailed specifics of these things lead us to not support as the are written

The devil is always in the details. Have you read the bills? Rape is already illegal and the homeless benefit program was a shame. Yes I can honestly say that. Just because they use "newspeak" doesn't mean I have to fall for it, neither do you.

Biden isn't running for president....
At least they have the middle class in mind, unlike Mitt and, Ryan.
All they want is more money, more power,support their billionaire cohorts, and raise middle class taxes and reduce theirs..they are truly lethal to welfare of this country. If they cut more funding on education, they will take us back to the prairie days, in a one room school house with 50 kids to a class.
Sorry, but they just DON'T GET IT!

"Roaring back"?? Are you serious?

Ah, hasn't it been proven over and over that the "trickle-down theory" just doesn't work? I can't believe we have a Republican candidate proposing the same old ideas!

Quick question patch reader...who paid for Obama's college education? Nobody knows that answer...ALSO, future Vice President Ryan feels SS should be reformed not abolished. You must be listening to the lies the media has been spouting. Check the facts right here....http://paulryan.house.gov/issues/issue/?IssueID=12227

It's ok for them but not for the rest of the country.
When fact checking, you don't go to Ryan's site......Hmmmmmmm There are numerous sites that are impartial who fact check....oh wait, RUSH is down on them. Also. Afraid of the truth coming out? RESEARCH AND STOP BEING SO GULLIABLE WHEN THE POLITICIANS LIE THROUGH THEIR TEETH.

Joe, they want to dismantle Medicare and have a voucher program. Do you have parents ? What if some day they need help health wise....they will need 6000.00 out of their own pocket and that may not cover expenses......Supporting the GOP will cut your nose off to spite your face. Middle class loses, always. Ins co. Will be able to raise rates uncontrollably....better really think about this.

Oh, so it's that blasted LYING MEDIA again, eh? But I should go to Paul Ryan's WEBSITE to find out the facts? LOL...have you got things backwards!!!

Obama has added $6 trillion on to the debt...he has thrown good money at bad situations. He does not deserve a second chance. He's divided this Country like no other President has ever done. I hope you vote pro business and let Romney/Ryan stop the disaster Obama has put us in.

joe, here are some rebuttals to the obama spending spree:

http://articles.marketwatch.com/2012-05-22/commentary/31802270_1_spending-federal-budget-drunken-sailor

Excerpt:

In the 2009 fiscal year — the last of George W. Bush’s presidency — federal spending rose by 17.9% from $2.98 trillion to $3.52 trillion. Check the official numbers at the Office of Management and Budget.

• In fiscal 2010 — the first budget under Obama — spending fell 1.8% to $3.46 trillion.

• In fiscal 2011, spending rose 4.3% to $3.60 trillion.

• In fiscal 2012, spending is set to rise 0.7% to $3.63 trillion, according to the Congressional Budget Office’s estimate of the budget that was agreed to last August.

• Finally in fiscal 2013 — the final budget of Obama’s term — spending is scheduled to fall 1.3% to $3.58 trillion. Read the CBO’s latest budget outlook.

Over Obama’s four budget years, federal spending is on track to rise from $3.52 trillion to $3.58 trillion, an annualized increase of just 0.4%.

Then vote for a third party candidate! Better to vote your heart/mind then vote for the lesser of two evils.

Jeff-
I don't think Joe is going to like those facts. It's much easier for him just to believe that we were in utopia up until January of 2009!

@ Dan Marol, when your employer lays you off and tells you they can't afford you because of Obamascare, let me know how your Utopia will feel? If all these stats are your nirvana, hand them to the 23 million people in the unemployment lines and tell them congratulations for Obama.... Liars figure....figures lie.

All these raw jobs numbers mean little outside the context of unemployment rates. Job growth has to keep pace with the expanding adult population in order for the gains to be sufficient.

Food-stamp spending has more than doubled in the past four years to a record $75.7 billion in the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, 2011.

$5 Trillion in new Debt.

Unemployment rate still at 9%. If you factor in those who stopped looking and those underemployed the number is double digits!

Really?...that's your logic? That's your rationale? How about these little whoppers?....http://obamalies.net/list-of-lies come on, ...is that all you got?

Come on Patch Reader - the economy is in the trash, the debt is up to $16 trillion, we have 8.3% unemployment, etc, etc and your are worried about a person who claimed they ran a sub-three hour marathon. Oh and that same person also came clean that we was wrong...have you ever heard Obama admit he was wrong or said something he should not have...I think not

Brandt, you obviously haven't been following Obama's money trail for his reelection campaign, or you would see that it is coming from those very rich people you say you despise. I guess the definition of someone who says it is good for them do something but bad for another to do the same thing is hypocrite. Guess you aren't getting invited to those $30,000 per plate Obama dinners because you aren't qualified. Get a real job (under Obama) and attend those expensive dinners of his.

yes survival of the fittest darwins description of natural selection, you know evolution (I am a big fan of it ) if your sister had no insurance and no money to pay for her care, then nature reclaimed its property

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-07-30/childrens27-hospital-waiting-lists-unacceptable3a-opposition/4163018 This is what to expect from Obama's healthcare very soon. I experienced long delays getting appointment in Spain under the socialized medicine program. People will necessarily die as part of the socialized medical plan in order to sustain it for those who don't need as much care. You can call them, as one democrat from Florida so bluntly put it, death panels. When a government decides every facet of your life for you and you aren't productive to the society, what do you expect your future to look like?

@James Murphy. What a truly horrid thing to say to someone who has suffered the loss of a family member. What a truly despicable, heartless thing to say. This could happen to any of us - a job loss, a loss of savings, whatever. Is this how you treat your fellow human beings? This is the kind of zeitgeist the Tea Party has created - a heartless, aggressive citizen with no kindness even for their own countrymen and laughably, they claim Christianity as their guiding premise. In other news, karma is a b*tch, dude and what you send out comes back to you.

James Murphy does not speak for me as a Republican and a Tea Party supporter folks...@ Faye...why would you even say he is a Tea Party member? Did he sign the comment that way or are you just assuming?...come on. You have no idea who he represents...or the Tea Party if you think he is on our side...geez.

James-
That's a really sick comment. You must have been in the audience of a Republican Primary debate when the audience clapped when the moderator asked Ron Paul if they should just let a person die if he was in a coma and had no insurance!

@ Earl Boggs: death panels, disproved a long time ago: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2009/08/death_panels_debunked_sen_john.html
Turn off Fox news and find something else to watch.

@ Faye Mozingo: Obviously you can't read, since I was watching ABC news as indicated in the above paragraph. Also, it is clear you didn't follow the democrat from Florida's statement about what the definition of a death panel is: You must be a non-voting democrat to not even follow your own party when they write articles. The death panels are created when government makes the decisions on if, when, and how much medical care citizens shall receive. Obama created a "blue ribbon panel" to do this very thing in order to save "Medicare as we know it".

"So let me get this straight. A recently graduated nurse, who is unwed but pregnant and now she is scared about the world she is bringing into the world. Give me a break!"

I thought it was nuts to quote this person at the beginning of the article. It doesn't say much for the rest of those who attended this rally.

Actually, those of us with common sense know we will be voting in a Commander-in-Chief who doesn't bow to dictators and apologize for America. It was the Obama supporters who thought they were voting for the "second coming". Remember? Obama was going to "stop the oceans from rising" and "heal the planet". Now he can't even get enough worshipers to fill the BoA stadium. Oh how the "mighty" hath fallen.

p.s. - we don't belong to the government, the government belongs to We The People.

Melissa you make a great point but Sadly the Obama supporters think they have the second coming in office right now. He can do no wrong of course, yet he still covets lobbyists in the White House with NO transparency of why they visit. Something he said he wouldn't do. He continues to add to the National debt, something he said he'd cut in half. He confiscated GM and the healthcare system for Government ownership right in front of everyones eyes through lies and deception. He, along with the Directors at Fannie Mae have accelerate the collapsed of the housing industry. He and his congress and senate of democrats have set in motion a precise, deliberate attempt to overload the system for political gain and collapse the economy. (google Cloward-Pivens) He has rammed through an executive order to let immigrants enter the U.S illegally, against the laws we have in place, putting more people on Government handouts . He's crippled our energy industry by shutting down refineries and oil production in the gulf, as well as potentially being close to bankrupting the Coal industry. So I ask myself, how could Obama voters be dumb enough to want more of this? How does this type of governing show respect for this Country?...We have a clear choice this election year of CAPITALISM and EXCEPTIONALISM vs Obama and his socialism. I'll take Romney and Ryan in a landslide and bring back American Exceptionalism.

why do you think Romney and Ryan will be extreme? If they correct the many wrongs of Obama's administration like dumping healthcare I'm all for that kind of extreme .How could any candidates be more extreme than Obama and Biden?....People need to stop dependance on the Gov't. Start thinking for yourself. It's called Independance!

Melissa, I agree with your statement that the country was divided, angry, and unwilling to compromise in GWB's second term. I do think that many of Obama's policies have added to the division within the country. There is so much class warfare and cries of racism coming from the Democrat party these days.

Just because someone disagrees with the current president or his policies doesn't mean that they do so because of the color of his skin. Just because someone strongly believes that larger, more controlling federal government isn't the correct answer to all the country’s problems doesn't mean that they hate the poor or are greedy.

Also, please keep in mind that the second term for any president from either party is never as successful as the first term. This was true for GWB, Clinton, Reagan, and the list goes on and on. Congress becomes more concerned with elections than with the lame duck president early in the second term and digs in their heels even more. There is no evidence that a second Obama term would be any different. Further, Obama associates have said that in private, Obama acknowledges that his biggest mistake in his first term was trying to work with Republicans and that he won’t make that mistake again in a second term. Since it is unlikely that the house will go Democrat and there is a possibility that the Senate will be evenly divided (or possibly Republican) you can expect even more divisiveness in an Obama second term.

Excellent points Melissa.

Well, Joe, actually it's called "independence."

Ed, your brilliant insight of nothing has added nothing to this discussion. Thanks for Nothing...

"these 'learned' voters are making decisions and blasting away at each other as if they know "the truth"."

Well put.

Holly, first of all, all construction jobs are by nature temporary. Once a project is built, the construction ends. Here is a link to a chart indicating private sector job growth. The recovery act also paid local schools to keep teachers on the payroll and to improve their energy usage, saving local taxpayers money.

http://www.barackobama.com/jobsrecord

As far as underemployment or people who have given up looking, I don't remember ever hearing the Republicans speak of such things under prior administrations. Although at one point I do remember President Bush commenting on a woman who had to work two jobs to try to make ends meet by saying something along the lines of, and I am paraphrasing here "...that's the American way." But you try to keep moving the goal line, that's a fine strategy to try to confuse the American voters, but they are smarter than that. They know to go forward you put a car in D and to go backwards you put it in R. The same holds true for our economy.

And we should all believe a site that is titled "barackobama.com?" If the only data you look at is partisan, you won't get very far with true facts.

Melissa, the candidate that made the statements that you are referring to is a Senate candidate in Missouri. Romney and Ryan did not make them. The media wants you to believe they did and you fell for it. ALSO, the Democrats have made this campaign a war on women not the Republicans. The media along with Obama can't run a successful campaign on his record of nothingness over 4 years so they have to run a negative bitter fictitious campaign on something divisive. You also are drinking the kool aide of the left to by painting the Tea Party as extremists. The main goal of the Republican party AND Tea Party members is to get Government OUT of your life. Not dictate your life...

"The main goal of the Republican party AND Tea Party members is to get Government OUT of your life. Not dictate your life"

Except those little things like abortion and birth control.

"They shouldn't worry about what I do to my body, it's mine." While I have opinions on what one should do and shouldn't do to their bodies, I will refrain from giving them here.

It is your body, and you can choose to do what you want with it. Your choices may have consequences. Others should not have to pay for those consequences. My tax dollars should not go to supplying contraception or abortions for those that cannot appropriately manage the care of their bodies.

One side thinks killing innocent life is bad. The other thinks that government funding of killing innocent life is good. If something is good, we would want more of it. Does anybody really want more abortions (aside from Margret Sanger and Planned Parenthood)? Conversely, if something is bad, we would want less of it. If you think that there should be less, not more abortions, than you should also be opposed to the government funding of them.

Bill, do what you want, just don't ask the rest of us to pay for your choices.

MZ you are drinking the Fox News kool aid again. The government is not now, nor is there any law on the books nor is there any planned law which causes tax Dollars to pay for abortions or contraception. When the President issued his order on birth control it said that if a company supplied medical coverage for their employees which included prescription coverage, it must also cover birth control. And if there was a copay involved, the insurance company must waive the copay for it. No tax money involved in any way. Take the blinders off sometime and use the internet for research. You just might actually look educated.

If you did research the subject you would find out that Planned Parenthood is just what it's name implies. It helps women who are having trouble getting pregnant, it helps poor and working poor women have healthy children by way of free pre-natal care and also offers free or reduced cost birth control. Less than 5% of Planned Parenthoods services are abortions, probably about the same as most hospitals.

Bill, quick Internet research shows that planned parenthood perform 40%'of abortions. The 5% figure has been widely discredited. Oh yeah, these aren't from Fox news but thanks for trying.

Thanks for clearing up that Obama has forced any company that provides health coverage for prescriptions also must provide abortions. That is awesome! So what happens when companies begin to drop the coverage to pay the much less expensive fines and the employees have to go on the government program? Aren't tax dollars going to support that?

Obama says that prescription drugs = abortions! I am sure that our senior citizens will be happy to know that money that could be spent on prescription medications will be used for abortions that they have no risk of needing.

Reading comprehension is not your strong suit is it? Where did I write that "Obama has forced any company that provides health coverage for prescriptions also must provide abortions."? And please provide a non-biased link which shows that 40% figure for abortions at Planned Parenthood. Plus you need to educate yourself on (among many other subjects) what the Affordable Care Act really is.

"When the President issued his order on birth control it said that if a company supplied medical coverage for their employees which included prescription coverage, it must also cover birth control."

What is also pretty cool about that quote is that Obama can issue an order and all companies must follow it, kind of like a king, or a dictator. Pretty sweet gig if you can get it.

I know, I know, all presidents issue executive orders to force every company to do something.

Now that the bill is passed we can read it just like Nancy said we could!

Did you read all the pages, the cliff notes version, lib talking points? I certainly didn't read the entire bill. Is it odd to you that the bill was written by lobbyists from the big insurance companies and that nobody read it before it was passed? I am sure they have your best interests in mind.

Are you comfortable that it was rushed through and that a few senators had to be bribed to vote for it? Bart Stupak now regrets his decision to believe that abortions would not be covered by Obamacare.

I am sure it will all be just fine, Obama says it's good so it must be.

Holly, Here is a link to the BLS. The official labor statistics. Facts don't lie. Under President Obama, we have created jobs in the private sector and reduced jobs in the public sector.

http://www.bls.gov/cps/tables.htm#History_m

And Holly, nice job of avoiding the temporary aspect of construction jobs.

Hey MZ: I'll post this again since you totally ignored it and merely did what all Republican posters do, deflect and change the subject when proven wrong:

Reading comprehension is not your strong suit is it? Where did I write that "Obama has forced any company that provides health coverage for prescriptions also must provide abortions."? And please provide a non-biased link which shows that 40% figure for abortions at Planned Parenthood. Plus you need to educate yourself on (among many other subjects) what the Affordable Care Act really is.

Bill, my post should have said 40% of revenues.

Annual abortions performed at Planned Parenthood: 332,278
Source: Planned Parenthood 2009 services fact sheet

Average cost of abortion: $468
Source: Guttmacher Institute estimate
Total income from abortions: $155,506,104

Total health center income: $404,900,000
Source: Planned Parenthood 2009 annual report

This means that fully 38.4% of Planned Parenthood health center income comes directly from abortions.

And here is your quote posted again for your convenience: "When the President issued his order on birth control it said that if a company supplied medical coverage for their employees which included prescription coverage, it must also cover birth control."

Obama in just 3 1/2 years has already created more private sector jobs than George W Bush did his entire 8 years. The reason why there are still so many unemployed is because States and Cities have made drastic cuts in their employees because of reduced tax revenues. Had the Republican Congress done what it was elected to do and passed a jobs bill maybe those workers could have been rehired. FYI: More people working=more tax revenue.

More people working government jobs equals more tax money to pay them. Every government job (including benefits) costs far more than the federal taxes collected from an individual making $250K.

How would the states and cities hiring millions of people fix the revenue problem? Pay someone $50k plus benefits to collect a fraction of that back in taxes? The math doesn't work my friend.

MZ-
That's fine then. Get rid of those government jobs...just don't complain about the unemployment rate, then!

Deal. I will continue to not complain about the unemployment rate.

Is it ok to complain about government interference into the private sector?

Having started multiple businesses I can speak firsthand about the massive waste and burdensome regulations involved with start-up, reporting, and compliance. Please don’t get me wrong, government has a valued place in our society and I am not an anarchist who thinks every man for himself is the way to go, it’s not. Tens of thousands of pages of tax code, thousands of repetitive laws, regulation on top of regulation, and knee jerk reactions are not helpful for a free society.

I thought we weren't supposed to use the word "retarded" anymore.

An insurance policy that you buy can support whatever you want it to. A policy provided by the government, mandated by the government, or an agency funded by the government shouldn't support abortion, birth control, or viagra with tax payer money. Can we agree on that?

I have two daughters and a beautiful wife. I am sorry that a comment from someone you have never met makes you physically ill; perhaps you should seek some help.

Nowhere did I speak of rape. I am not sure why your mind went there. Weird.

The number of abortions for pregnancies resulting from rape is rather small compared to the overall number of abortions. Do you dispute this fact? Abortions performed to save the life of the mother are even rarer. Do you dispute this fact? So that leaves us with the vast majority of abortions being performed for what reason? Perhaps consenting adults made a bad “choice.” Perhaps they followed up that bad “choice” with another “choice.”

We have all made bad decisions or choices in our lives, we all choose to deal with them in different ways. I won’t ask you to pay for any bad choices I make if you don’t ask me to pay for yours. Deal?

On a side note, I would much rather kill the rapist than kill the innocent victim of the rape (either the mother, or the unborn), but that is just me.

You're PROBABLY going to want to learn the plural of the word "woman." It may be useful the next time you post a giant, nonsensical rant.

WOW! Patrick, you really destroyed everything I said.
It is hard texting and "riding". I am sure a "plurality" of this country could understand that.

wow. how bizarre is that ?

That's Out There. Way Out There.

That's Out There. Way Out There.

Out there yet 100% true

Actually Obama started campaigning for 2012 the day after he was "sworn in"
So why wouldn't the campaign against him start then?
As a matter of fact, Obama is running against "Bush".

does anyone understand this ?

Ed F.
I Think both you and I would agree that free speech does not come without the price of having to listen to the bizarre. I'm personally glad that this is one of my greatest problems.

Every voter should know that Anytime a President Increases Business Taxes, ALL of us Pay a higher price for the product.
Corn Flakes, Milk, Pizza,Bars, Grills, Restaurants,Cars---EVERYTHING.

The Democratic party hates businesses and therefore TAX the heck out of them.
YOU, Mr. Mrs Democrat (Rich OR POOR) will pay that false "freebie" promised by Obama in Everything you buy at the store and even your hairdresser.

Democrats should read up on just how they are supporting their own Price increases. The Rich will always come out ahead when the taxes are on businesses to pass on to the Poor.
Suckers, All Democrats for not seeing this gimmick for your vote as you pay in the "rear" Door of Products you need and buy. Your Gasoline will be over $5 per gallon , if you vote for Obama. That is how he will make you pay for that "freebie".