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President Obama Delays Decisions and Courts Disaster

October 11, 2012 @ 3:56 pm (Updated: 10:48 am - 10/12/12 )

If President Obama continues to block agreements with Congress, on January 1st - three weeks before inauguration day!- taxes will go up sharply on every American, with typical middle class households paying increases above $3,000.

Our defense budget will also suffer automatic cuts Obama's own Defense Secretary called "catastrophic." The president wants to wait till the election, hoping he can force a better deal if he wins, though Republicans say they still won't accept tax hikes. And if he loses, the president may reach no deal at all, preferring to hand Mitt Romney a wrecked economy and to blame Republicans.

The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office says the resulting recession could prove even worse than the collapse of 2008, but the president prefers to play politics rather than acting now to avert disaster, or even revealing his post-election strategy.

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  • It's me! Ha ha! wrote...
    Obama's "Scorched America" policy.
    October 11, 2012 3:31 pm
    The regime knows that it will lose in 23 days! So they are laying the ground work for the next four years when the Liberals will have to groom and cultivate the next "Hero" of the Left!

    Who will be the next Dear Leader Barack Obama of the American left?

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  • mayday56 wrote...
    Scorched America
    October 13, 2012 9:44 pm
    America was scorched long before Obama arrived on the seen. Another ignorant remark by a GOP facist.
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  • cigarfan wrote...
    Addressing the national debt
    October 11, 2012 3:33 pm
    Obama is just helping to address the national debt, instead of ignoring it.
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  • cigarfan wrote...
    Medved's behaviour
    October 11, 2012 3:37 pm
    You know if Medved's worried that the rich are gonna have to contribute. (Medved never acts like this when it's the poor who are affected ;)
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  • Drool wrote...
    "Agreements with Congress"?
    October 11, 2012 3:40 pm
    Oh do tell.....
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  • halfshaft wrote...
    President won't agree with Congress that won't agree with the President
    October 11, 2012 3:42 pm
    "If President Obama continues to block agreements with Congress........" in one paragraph, and in the paragraph below that Medved states, ".. though Republicans say they still won't accept tax hikes." So, the President is blocking agreements with Congress, yet the Republicans WON'T ACCEPT tax hikes. So, really, who is blocking who?
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  • cigarfan wrote...
    @halfshaft
    October 11, 2012 8:08 pm
    That's the beauty of this setup...and why Medved is panicking. The President doesn't have to do anything and the rich will have to pay their fair share. :)
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  • rational wrote...
    cigarfan
    October 13, 2012 9:10 am
    Define "fair share". A true fair share is each person pays the same amount...at least if you believe in equality. You don't want the rich to pay a fair share, you want them to do the heavy lifting to cover for what you won't or can't do. Acting as if you have noble intentions is offensive and reveals your greed.
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  • maplefish wrote...
    @rational
    October 13, 2012 2:25 pm
    Brilliant!
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  • cigarfan wrote...
    @rational
    October 14, 2012 1:30 pm
    Progressive tax structure is what I advocate. Check out what the rich paid for taxes before Reagan. The more you make, the more you pay, not unlike a sliding scale.
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  • Forrest wrote...
    Mr. Medved, my friend Bill Law says you're a smart guy.
    October 11, 2012 5:30 pm
    So I'm going to assume that you are. If you're saying that we can balance the budget without letting the Bush tax cuts expire and without cutting spending across the board, then you're a liar.
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  • SeattleD wrote...
    Republitards demanded the fiscal cliff be put in place before they agreed to raise the debt ceiling
    October 11, 2012 6:37 pm
    174 Republitard in the House of Representatives voted to throw America over the fiscal cliff, only 66 Republitards voted against it. If the fiscal cliff is so terrible, why did Repubs vote so overwhelmingly for it????

    I'll tell you why. It is the same reason the Republicons are making sure this doesn't get resolved until after the election.

    The fiscal cliff will be used by the Republicons to punish Americans for re-electing Obama.

    Now should Dumney get elected, the Democrats should force Dumney over the fiscal cliff as the first step towards making him a one term failed president. PAYBACK TIME MUTHA PUCKERS!

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  • maplefish wrote...
    Seattle D
    October 11, 2012 7:24 pm
    Wow that was deep...You certainly are an intellectual. Please continue to spew your wisdom upon the masses. I can't believe you don't have your own TV think tank show or radio program. You are a true wordsmith...You epitomize the genius of the Democrat party. Please continue....
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  • SeattleD wrote...
    maplefish
    October 11, 2012 8:43 pm
    Thank you. I will continue, I promise.
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  • ron prevost wrote...
    Obama has his safety net. The Maxim he lives by.
    October 11, 2012 9:44 pm
    'What ever happens we have got...

    George Bush to blame and they have not'

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  • mayday56 wrote...
    Really
    October 13, 2012 9:57 pm
    Name me President who hasn't used that angle? Look at the facts, Idiot was to blame.
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  • Rangerhawk wrote...
    It gets worse
    October 11, 2012 11:10 pm
    If he is reelected, Israel will pull the trigger on Iran before Jan 1. (Think Chinese sanctions against U.S. involvement) Maybe those Mayans had it right after all. The perfect storm is developing ominously.
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  • cigarfan wrote...
    @Rangerhawk
    October 12, 2012 4:18 am
    If Netanyahu is unstable enough to launch a new war, then Netanyahu should have to deal with the consequences. Iran has conventional weapons that reach Israel but doesn't use them. Israel just doesn't like not having a monopoly on power, -and doesn't want to sign the (NPT) Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (like everyone else.) HaShem is not going to bless Israel as long as they keep the Gaza strip under siege, East Jerusalem and the West bank under Israeli military occupation/apartheid and attempting to colonize/settle/ethnically cleanse Palestinian lands.
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  • messiah101 wrote...
    Rangerhawk
    October 12, 2012 8:13 am
    But if Israel attacks without the OK of the USA they should not wait for our help if things get out of hand,after all our treaty with Israel states we will treat an attack on Israel as an attack on the USA but Iran responding to a Israeli military action would be self defense and not an attack.That and the HUGE amount of aid we give them is the hammer we can use (if the POTUS has the Balls) over Israels head in order to keep them in their own playpen
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