Mavric

I think presidents get too much blame (or credit) for how things are going than they actually deserve, especially on taxes/spending/deficits. It's really more congress that sets tax policy and enacts a budget (in theory). Yes, the president has to sign off on it but - in my admittedly limited research - I couldn't find an example of a president vetoing a budget. Perhaps someone can enlighten me. This isn't exactly the graph I was looking for but it's the only one I could find: Federal Debt as a Percentage of GDP overlaid on President/Control of House/Control of Senate I wasn't really looking for it as a Percent of GDP because that adds more variables but it also serves to somewhat inflation-adjust the numbers so maybe it's not so bad. Also it's not a perfect example because decisions made in one year can have long-term effects or may not go into effect for several years but it's an interesting overview. There are three blocks where Republicans controlled both houses for more than two years (1901-09, 1919-29 & 1995-2005). In all three, the percentage was lower at the end of the block than when it started. It's not as clear-cut on the other side of the coin because Democrats happened to control both houses at the outbreak of both World Wars and the Stock Market crash of 1929 happened during a transition. Democrats held both houses the vast majority of the time from 1933-93 so you don't get nice breaks to compare. However, some of the problems we are having today are due to the long-term effects of social programs that tend to be more Democratically-supported. Reagan had a Democratic house throughout his presidency so Democrats also had quite a bit of influence on spending policy. Even though GW Bush wasn't great on spending, the percentage was fairly flat until Democrats took control of both houses and the economy went into the crapper (no, I'm not implying a cause-and-effect relationship there). Many like to point out what happened in such-and-such a president's term but it's way to complicated on many issues to make such a black-and-white generalization.

Realistically, if they felt like it, every single recruit could have a change of heart and decommit on Signing Day and then we'd be really screwed... If Cotton de-commits and goes somewhere else I'll officially be worried.

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The only thing I can't figure out as far as transfers go is why they wouldn't have wanted to transfer for this semester so they could be in spring ball. I guess if they're going to have to sit a year anyway maybe it's not such a big deal or maybe they're going to give it one more spring here to see how things look ...

The under was looking good but a late push might put it over the top. Hope the same is true for Devin...

I hope you had plenty of to get you through!

Didn't want to leave The Dude hanging... GBR!

Reading the title, I thought maybe he was looking for a "Head Coach" for his reelection bid.

Trends in tax policy and sSpending policy. So you don't think there is a noticeable difference on tax and spending policies?

I would venture to wager that a good chunk of those that identify themselves as "moderate" would be more likely to lean to the "liberal" side of things.

My point was about epistemic closure. If that was your point, then I agree with you. Both sides favor hearing bias closer to their own beliefs. I wasn't trying to argue with you anyway, just not surprised by this "finding".

Reference? Maybe I'm not sure what you're including in "Finance" because there seems to be a lot of difference in where the sides think the money should come from. What are you referencing under "Finance"?

Here is the first sentence from Ron Paul's website on Foreign Policy: How is that different from what he actually said at the debate?

Since you are far and away the best prognosticator on this board, what do you really think Ron Paul meant? Everyone else is trying to tell me what he meant. I'm just going by what he said. I don't know what he meant. But what he said wouldn't sound good from a sitting president.

Going out on a limb with a 50/50 chance. We have to expect Marrow to get the first look at the short yardage back but Cross could bring a different skills set to the table. He does have good hands. If Cross gets the protection packages down quickly, his chances of playing early skyrocket. Rex isn't your "traditional" power back (i.e., 245 lbs) but I've NEVER seen anyone make more guys miss in the backfield and get a couple yards when he should have lost a couple. With he and Marrow, I don't think we're hurting for a short-yardage back this year. I wouldn't mind a redshirt, regardless of what happens with the trio of sophs.

When a "report" has phrases like "The American people wonder why members of Congress suggest cuts to Medicare and Social Security but won’t require millionaires to pay their fair share in taxes" and "then use that extra cash to pay bloated bonuses to CEOs or ship jobs overseas" in the first couple sentences of the introduction, it makes me question their commitment to objective reporting but that's how it goes. Their data was (as far as I could tell) taken straight from a different report and there weren't many citations in that report for where the data came from so I was having trouble checking to see where they were getting their figures. I've heard GE brought up before as far as not paying taxes during that time and I believe some of that was due to the fact that they had a net loss for at least one of the years in that range. That made me wonder if the "profits" they were referring to were more accurately "revenues" which is a totally different deal but, like I said, I had a hard time tracking the data all the way through to figure that out. There's plenty of blame to go around but it's up to whoever actually has the vote - whether it's electing representatives or voting on laws - that are responsible for the decisions made.

I think we are full at LB, unless the staff wants to make room. Given the complete lack of depth/talent at the position, if he wants in we take him, right? We could go with the ever-popular "encouraged to look elsewhere" if we have a guy who'd be behind the others. Not saying I like that approach, but a "look, we've got two guys last year and now five this year - if you want to look around, go for it" type of deal.

+1 Case dismissed.

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I'd have to find it for sure but I bet mine was more than five. I try to cut it down to just what I'm replying to but in this case I believe I was trying to break the post I was quoting up into several chunks to make it clear which part I was replying to. Thanks.

I had this same problem on a post I had with several quotes. I changed one of the sets from [ quote ] ... [ /quote] (without the spaces, of course) to just a " ... " and it worked fine. I tried to change them back to the coded quotes but it wouldn't work. Never could figure it out so I left one of them as " ... " and went on with life.

I don't really disagree, only repeating what is usually said about many college QBs. I find it amusing when "experts" say that a college QB will have to learn to be under center more to play in the NFL. Have they watched the Pats or Colts over the last 7-8 years? Well i don't know how much longer the Colts will be running the spread, now that it seems that Manning could be gone. If anyone can pick up (close to) where Manning left off, it would be Luck.

Did I dream this up or didn't we have a transfer from SD St. when we played them last year? Maybe Shoff will go up there for a year or two then work south if he shows he's up to the job.... Edit: Found it: LB Jim Ebke. Originally from Lincoln East via SD St.

Since EZ-E replied to my quote in Tommy's thread saying he would start this thread, I'll resond here as well. The discussion I started was in response to a post about his mechanics. I said i thought he had overall good mechanics but I thought his delivery was a little on the slow side. I think you can see some of that in the three throws starting at 0:55 - longer stride and brings the ball down. Those three are all fairly long throws so it's a little unfair but my original post was based on watching his state championship game this year where I saw the same thing on 15-20 yd throws. However, as I said many times in the other thread, I think he has the makings of a very good QB. Of any "flaw" a QB could have, a slower delivery is the least of my worries, especially in our offense where we don't throw a lot of quick timing routes. Also, I think footwork is easier to correct than arm motion which could gain him a lot just by shortening his stride a little bit - quicker, better weight transfer, etc. I would generally agree with EZ-E that he could use some work on footwork and delivery but he's no where near "project" status. There are probably only a couple QBs coming out of HS that don't need some work so getting a guy who's this close is a very nice get for us.