[Timo]

Also, the Wisconsin Democratic Senators leaving the state is the same tactic as the Republican fillibuster in the US Senate. State senate's don't operate under the same rules, so the only option the minority party has is to get out of town to prevent any vote on any matter. No on'e complaining about Republica filibusters, are they?

[Pops]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'T')he most recent extension of the Bush tax cuts was passed in special session by the last Congress which was dominated and controlled by DEMOCRATS and then signed into law by Obama, a DEMOCRATIC president.

Blaming Republicans for what Obama and the democrats do is silly.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gollum', 't')here were a hell of a lot of union members who put Reagan in office

[Livewire713]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'T')he most recent extension of the Bush tax cuts was passed in special session by the last Congress which was dominated and controlled by DEMOCRATS and then signed into law by Obama, a DEMOCRATIC president.

Blaming Republicans for what Obama and the democrats do is silly.

[gollum]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gollum', 't')here were a hell of a lot of union members who put Reagan in office

[Timo]

Getting this discussion, riveting as it is, back to the topic of peak oil, it was the Bush tax cuts, coupled with two wars that went completely unpaid for through the Bush Presidency that caused the severity of our current debt crisis. Sure, Obama has needed to add a bit to that debt, but he most certainly did not create the debt to begin with. Neither did Bush, for that matter, be he sure did add a lot more to it than Obama has. The reason Obama has had to add more to it is to stimulate the economy which, in part, has been dragged down on a GLOBAL scale due to several factors, including the realization of the coming scarcity of cheap oil. Peak oil isn't Bush's fault, nor Obama's fault. Republican's insist on gaining power by creating blame games, while Democrats try to no avail to undue the damage done to our country each time Republicans get control.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Livewire713', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'T')he most recent extension of the Bush tax cuts was passed in special session by the last Congress which was dominated and controlled by DEMOCRATS and then signed into law by Obama, a DEMOCRATIC president.

Blaming Republicans for what Obama and the democrats do is silly.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gollum', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', ' ')the facts don't support your claims.

The most recent extension of the Bush tax cuts was passed in special session by the last Congress which was dominated and controlled by DEMOCRATS and then signed into law by Obama, a DEMOCRATIC president.

Blaming Republicans for what Obama and the democrats do is silly.

[Timo]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gollum', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', ' ')the facts don't support your claims.

The most recent extension of the Bush tax cuts was passed in special session by the last Congress which was dominated and controlled by DEMOCRATS and then signed into law by Obama, a DEMOCRATIC president.

Blaming Republicans for what Obama and the democrats do is silly.

[Pops]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'W')hy isn't Obama responsible for his own actions?

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Timo', '
')The Republicans would have filibustered the bill if the Bush tax cuts were not in the bill. That bill was essential for some other reason, and was not a stand alone extension of the Bush tax cuts.

[Plantagenet]

So where did the Bush tax cut extension bill come from? Who wrote it?

Well looky looky. Harry Reid, the DEMOCRATIC leader of the Senate, is the author of the Bush tax cut extension bill.

Harry Reid (Dem-NV) authored the bill that extended the Bush tax cuts in 2010

Face facts: Harry Reid (DEM) wrote the bill that extended the Bush tax cuts, it then passed the democratically controlled House and Senate, and Obama (DEM) signed it into law.

[Pops]

Geez, Plant, it ain't brain surgery, it was a deal: the 'pubs would vote to extend unemployment insurance benefits for working people only if the dems voted to extend the tax cuts on for the 1%.

Besides, if the dems hadn't of done it in the lame duck the 'pubs could well have made them permanent in the new congress. Why do you think your boss was complaining?
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sarah-pa ... d=12418084
Or maybe she wasn't, hard to tell
http://www.rttnews.com/Content/TopStori ... Id=1509863

I can never figure out why you act so coy, and with such a handle!

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', 'i')f the dems hadn't of done it in the lame duck the 'pubs could well have made them permanent in the new congress.

[Pops]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'T')here's no way the Republicans could unilaterally do that without democratic support.

[Hawkcreek]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'T')here's no way the Republicans could unilaterally do that without democratic support.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', '
')'pubs represent the rich and dems represent everyone else.

[Ludi]

I'm pretty sure Bernie Sanders hasn't been bought by the corporations.

[Hawkcreek]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'I')'m pretty sure Bernie Sanders hasn't been bought by the corporations.

[eric_b]

Here's a small gallery (8 images) I put together of the budget protests:
http://www.fractalfreak.com/wx/BlackThursday/index.html