Tom Harkin - the Bill Maher of the Senate; Blames GOP for DEM Deficit

[goopmix]

The American Dream is only real if one is sleeping...Enjoy your retirement with no Social Security...

[goopmix]

The truly uninformed normally revert to insults as a replacement for an educated meaning discussion. I guess that makes you "normal." Nevermind, when the Republicans take over again, they will prove my point once again. The one difference is that the next time that they stack up the debt, there will not be any way to bail the system out and the U.S. will start to implode, and not at the hands of outsiders. Americans will destroy themselves - the fall of Rome 2.0.

[VotingFemale]

@goopmix Read through these commenters who came to post here starting insults & lies & who pushed their crap back at them.

You called a debt value a deficit value. I gave you a heads up on your screw up and advice as how not to look uneducated, uninformed and screwed up. You COMPLETELY IGNORE the whole thing and come back with more moronic blabbing. Shove off...

That makes you not just a moron but a jackass.

Move along buster, you have no idea what you are talking about whatsoever. shoo...

[goopmix]

To the poster of the video, do you realize that the deficit was nearly 12 trillion dollars when the president took office? The last 3 Republican presidents left massive debts behind, while the 1 previous Democrat president in that time left a surplus after he had to work to eliminate the deficit left by his 2 Republican predecessors. You should consider the facts as documented rather than basing your comments on non-facts that attempt to make Republicans look good...

[VotingFemale]

@goopmix Mr Goop Mixer, you don't even know the difference between an annual budget deficit and accumulated debt.

Do yourself a favor, Mr Goop Mixer, do your homework before you go spouting off and demonstrating to the world what an uneducated uninformed screw-up you really are.

[1polymath]

@VotingFemale I just wanted to tell you because of how baseless and ignorant your facts is is the reason why most people think republicans are stupid.

[VotingFemale]

@1polymath If I want your baseless ignorant leftist point of view I will let you know, moron.

[RichAdams21]

130 republicans presently serving in Congress were there when GWBush was president. All 130 voted 7 times to extend the debt ceiling at Bush's request. There wasn't even a debate. What changed? The scary black man in the White House. Suddenly deficits & budgets matter when they didn't matter before? When he took office, Bush turned a $500 billion surplus into a $10 trillion debt in 3 years. And Democrats are the problem? If you don't see both sides as the problem then YOU are the problem.

[VotingFemale]

@RichAdams21 Credit, used wisely is a useful tool to bridge temporary expenditures and spread it out over time. Nothing new there.

Using the RAAACE Card is so limp and flaccid it is laughable. Race Card throwing is a failed tactic of leftists who can not defend the record of the most politically extreme president in the history of the US.

Your party lacked the race card when Carter's extremist failures resulted in his ass getting removed from the White House.

NOV-2012 will dump Obama.

[RichAdams21]

This is so sad. Unless you make at least 250 grand a year and vote republican, you have been conned into voting against your own interests. Stop repeating the fantasy Fox News talking points and seek some truth. Your "you guys" statement and name calling says alot about you & how you think. It points out a general lack of intelligence. But this seems to also be a description of the new republican party. There is nothing worse than willful, agressive ignorance and stupidity.

[VotingFemale]

@RichAdams21 More Left Wing Extremism. Boy! You poor guys are desperate. And I will match my intellect and degrees with anyone on the left. So... with that, take your ineffective slandering and shove it where the sun down shine.

Obama is going down by the bow.... blub blub blub

NOV 2012 HERE WE COME!!!!! WOOOO HOOOOO!!!

[VotingFemale]

@johnny2366 So like your liberal asshole heros, you have to resort to their tactics... I see. You are done here troll.

[VotingFemale]

@johnny2366 you last comment was removed as a result.

[ManNorthern]

Harkin is correct. Bush/Cheney put this country in the ditch and the obstructionist Republicans have dug us in deeper by obstructing everything and by not solving the Healthcare cost crisis.

[VotingFemale]

@ManNorthern So DEMs eliminated frivolous law suits against doctors which increased the cost of doctor provided care? and DEMs capped the rates doctors and hospitals and big Pharma charges? and DEMs did not accept campaign donations from the medical industry?

[BartonFinkish]

I agree Tom Harkin is the Bill Maher of the Senate. Cause Harkin is awesome too

[VotingFemale]

@BartonFinkish So you admire liberal assholes. Got it.

[cadsiesk]

I have a feeling the democrats are going to give in this time again. But not because they're wrong or weak, but because they care about this country more, and are not willing to hurt this country just to prove a political point.

[VotingFemale]

@cadsiesk That you do not believe that raising taxes in a severe recession will hurt the economy is apparent. Obama said he would fix unemployment and the economy and it is worse. And now the bill for his massively increased deficit comes due. And this will help? DEMS blew it. DEMS will pay the political price for it as they did NOV-2010.

[VotingFemale]

@cadsiesk If it would not permanently cripple the United States, I would like to see Obama reelected for four more years just to watch the US public turn on the DEMS like a pack of wolves and wipe it out as a political party forever.

[Jayjs20]

I thought it was common knowledge that Obama started putting the 2 wars/etc on the books where Bush hid them. Guess not. Oh well, I know how to solve this problem: let's cut taxes for the rich again and cut government programs for the poor again. I can already hear the money trickling down into my wallet.

[VotingFemale]

@Jayjs20 Obama has been fighting THREE Wars while in office. In the first month in office Obama raised the tobacco tax "a lot" which impacted "the poor" hardest of all. Obama Defunded Medicare $500 Billion. Exactly how many dollars should you Socialists allow rich people to keep after taxes?

[Jayjs20]

@VotingFemale Two of them were started by Bush. Obama's just cleaning up. You can't think it's ethical to suggest we should pick up our bags and leave the day Obama gets into office. Last I checked, he already announced his plans for a reasonable and responsible withdraw from that country. You can barely call the third a war; last I checked, we're just bombing a madman so he'd stop committing genocide on his own people.

[Jayjs20]

@Jayjs20 Let's see what else...Tobacco tax impacted the poor the hardest? Maybe because they're poor and they vastly out number the rich people. I know how to solve this problem too: give the rich more tax breaks and continue cutting public government programs for the poor. People should quit smoking anyways, you speak as if only poor people smoke. Also, guess who wants to cut Medicare even further to balance out further tax breaks for the rich.

[VotingFemale]

@Jayjs20 So you agree Obama made poor people poorer with his tobacco tax. I see. Did Obama & Company cut $500 billion from Medicare? Does Obama want to eliminate the Medicare program completely, or just cripple it? Should Medicare recipients be required to pass a tobacco screening test to get Medicare?

[VotingFemale]

@Jayjs20 I suppose you think Al Qaeda's attack on 911 is Bush's fault so he could start two wars. I suppose you think it was alright that Saddam kicked out the UN nuclear inspectors which is what really started the war with Iraq. Why does a country like Iraq kick out UN nuclear inspectors at the risk of a war with the UN/NATO unless they want to hide what they are doing.

[VotingFemale]

@Jayjs20 Why was Obama adverse to the US Flag and saluting the US Flag prior to being called out for it in 2008? Why are Socialists adverse to patriotism? Whats wrong with getting rich? Should everyone be poor? Should everyone who wins the lottery donate it all to the Democrat controlled Government? Why do liberals hate so much? Why do liberal give each other a break when they are racist? If Socialism was so good, why has every communist country either gone bankrupt or turned to capitalism?

[Jayjs20]

@VotingFemale In order:Dirt slinging, dirt slinging, nothing wrong with being rich as long as they pay their fair share of taxes, no one should be poor if they're willing to work for it, no, we don't hate unless someone's pissing in our cheerios, we don't unless we have good reason to believe(and we do), because they've gone completely communistic which eventually gets corrupted through unalterable greed. Also, we already have socialism in this country. It's called public schools/post office/etc

[VotingFemale]

@Jayjs20 There are degrees of Socialism. Attacking Capitalism is Extremist. Who decides what is "their fair share?" you? Exactly how many dollars do you want the government to allow a rich person to keep of their own annual income? How many dollars should the govt give to a poor person annually?

[VotingFemale]

@VotingFemale You did not answer these questions because you called these two questions, mud slinging: How Much has Obama increased deficit spending in his two and a half years? What country did Obama start a war with... without backing of Congress?

[VotingFemale]

@Jayjs20 So you think it is common knowledge that Obama did not escalate the war in Afghanistan by increasing troop strength by 30,000 troops. Got it.

[Jayjs20]

@VotingFemale While I'd love to go on with you, you're really coming off as naive, hence, I'm just wasting my time. I'll just say that there are reasons for everything and you can usually find them if you look for them. It's not appropriate, however, to make up reasons just because of prejudices that you have. Furthermore, it sounds like you're not really trying to argue with me personally, you're trying to argue with the liberal mindset, therefore I really am wasting my time talking with you

[RichAdams21]

2 illegal wars, a corrupt big pharma bill & 2 different trillion dollar tax cuts for rich bastards. All during the Bush years, not paid for & it's Obama's fault! Obama put it all on-budget when he became President. In other words he did the responsible thing. Shrub raised the debt limit 7 times. Conservative icon, stuffed suit Reagan raised it 18 times and raised taxes 11 times. But suddenly, according to neocons, we just can't raise the debt limit or taxes on rich scumbags. Liars & crooks.

[VotingFemale]

@RichAdams21 How Much has Obama increased deficit spending in his two and a half years? What country did Obama start a war with... without backing of Congress? What is the amount of the National Debt? How Much has it increased under Obama? As a senator, did Obama vote to stop the raising of the Debt Limit? What reason did Obama give for his voting record on raising the Debt Limit? Waging Class Warfare started with which Communist Ideologue? What country are you from?

[johnny2366]

@VotingFemale right, after Bush& Cheney tanked the economy Obama had to spend some money to try and pull us out of it..every opposing party symbolically votes against raising the debt ceiling knowing they have enough votes to raise it in the end so the idea that Obama voting against it before is somehow an indictment of him is ridiculous..your comments are hollow talking points and it couldn't be more obvious that you are just spewing out what you hear on Fox News the night before

[VotingFemale]

@johnny2366 I suppose FOX News highhandedly caused the NOV-2010 butt kicking of the DEM party, the worst, what does Obama call it? "SHELLACKING." Please keep blaming Bush and see how far your Bushy-Blamey Thing gets your party NOV-2012 :-)

[RichAdams21]

@VotingFemale Did you even read my post? 2 trillion was added to the debt immediately by Obama in January 2009 because of programs instituted by Republicans which they did not pay for. Then came the pesky little economic collapse of 2008 made possible by Republican deregulation and a purposely lax FEC. Everybody who put Bush in office got paid in his 8 years. The defense industry. The drug companies. The energy companies. And, finally, Wall Street and big banks. The rest of us a paying the bill

[VotingFemale]

@RichAdams21 Only leftist extremists deny the dem created housing bubble/collapse triggered the recession. At least Barney Frank finally admitted it.

[VotingFemale]

@RichAdams21 Two Trillion was added by the Democrats because they had a majority in congress and had the WH. It's called pander dollars. IT FAILED to do ANYTHING to help the economy. And, Obama will lose his presidency over it. You guys watch CNN, the Communist News Network who Lies through their Teeth.

[VotingFemale]

@RichAdams21 lol. Where is your citation which equates Obama borrowing $2 trillion that went to pay for anything useful and helpful to the economy?

[matthewosburn]

wow a democrat with balls. i must be dreaming.

[VotingFemale]

@matthewosburn liberal rats having balls is not a news flash. they would be extinct otherwise. lol