How satisfied are you with the results of the election?

[Vizsla1]

HuskerNick- I agree. BHO is my president and I am a greedy American who wishes to win every gold medal in the olympics. I always want the best for the US. If BHO can bring that, then praise jebus. But I am disappointed in people who still blame Bush for all this mess. Reagan turned around double digit inflation, double digit unemployment and a failed foreign policy in 2/3 years. Obama's policies have failed and continue to fail. However, the stock market tanking today shows that business is NOT going to be hiring real soon. I would not be surprised if unemployment magically goes above 8% next time it is reported.

[knapplc]

I hate to drown this "Obama's not cooperating" pity party with facts, but...

 

 

 

While Republicans spent the last several months threatening to filibuster the Democrats' health care reform bill in the Senate, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid scrambled to secure 60 votes -- only to have the whole fragile arrangement blow up when Republican Scott Brown won the Massachusetts senate election last week -- we kept hearing that the relatively recent rise in filibuster threats was a bipartisan phenomenon. Both parties are guilty of this when they're in the minority, we heard.

 

It's true that there has been a decades-long uptick in the use of cloture filings -- often to overcome filibuster threats -- by whichever party is in the majority, but the best measurement of that trend shows an explosion since Republicans were consigned to minority status after the 2006 election.

 

LINK

 

Fact Check: Were there more cloture votes in the Senate last year than in all of the 1950s and 1960s combined?

 

 

 

– A vote to end filibuster debate is called a cloture vote. From the 81st Congress (1949-1950) through the 91st Congress (1969-1970), there were a total of 30 votes on cloture. There were no more than seven cloture votes in any single session during those years.

 

– Starting with the 92nd Congress (1971-72), cloture votes became more frequent. Part of that can be explained by the fact that the Senate changed the required majority in 1975, making it easier to induce cloture.

 

– The 110th Congress (2007-2008) is the record-holder so far: There were 112 votes on cloture during that two-year period.

 

– So far, the 11th Congress (2009-2010) has held 41 cloture votes, 39 of them last year, two more this year.

 

Bottom Line: President Obama is correct. There were 39 cloture votes last year, nine more than the combined total for 1949-1970.

 

LINK

[Vizsla1]

Didn't want to confuse our coach Bo with BHO. It's like discussing LBJ as LJ or JFK as JK. GWB vs his dad GHWB. Not trying to mock his name.. remember when the school children are singing about him, they do say ' Barack Hussein Obama, mmm..."

[Vizsla1]

Hit this link- just read the last two paragraphs. It is from July 13th.

[knapplc]

What does your blog have to do with anything?

[carlfense]

Hit this link- just read the last two paragraphs. It is from July 13th.

 

 

Last week Obama was having a photo-op breakfast with a 70 year old small business owner in Ohio . He hugged her and stiffed her without paying.

[Husker John]

I'm a Democarat, and yes, I'm happy that Obama won, and would love to spike the ball in front of all the Donald Trump's, Rush Limbaugh's, and Karl Rove's of this nation, because I get tired of all their sociopathic, extreme right wing , B.S.

 

But, that ain't gonna happen because I realize I have some honest disagreements with the majority of Republicans, who I believe ( or at least hope ) are more rational than the losers I have just mentioned. Both parties need to get together and discuss some no BS solutions and leave out the rhetoric, and stick to the facts.

[Vizsla1]

What does your blog have to do with anything? -- the prediction of how the race may go down. That the polls were correct and Rush, Morris, Rove, Barone were all idiots. And It is also a cheap trick to get 1/3 of a penny.

[knapplc]

So you're just here to spew extremist derp? You have no response to the post I made, linked to verifiable sources, about Republican obstructionism at historic levels?

[Junior]

Didn't want to confuse our coach Bo with BHO. It's like discussing LBJ as LJ or JFK as JK. GWB vs his dad GHWB. Not trying to mock his name.. remember when the school children are singing about him, they do say ' Barack Hussein Obama, mmm..."

 

Really? You think people might confuse you talking about BO and Bo on the Politics and Religion board? I guess you don't have a lot of faith in HuskerBoard members.

[Junior]

I hate to drown this "Obama's not cooperating" pity party with facts, but...

 

 

 

While Republicans spent the last several months threatening to filibuster the Democrats' health care reform bill in the Senate, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid scrambled to secure 60 votes -- only to have the whole fragile arrangement blow up when Republican Scott Brown won the Massachusetts senate election last week -- we kept hearing that the relatively recent rise in filibuster threats was a bipartisan phenomenon. Both parties are guilty of this when they're in the minority, we heard.

 

It's true that there has been a decades-long uptick in the use of cloture filings -- often to overcome filibuster threats -- by whichever party is in the majority, but the best measurement of that trend shows an explosion since Republicans were consigned to minority status after the 2006 election.

 

LINK

 

Fact Check: Were there more cloture votes in the Senate last year than in all of the 1950s and 1960s combined?

 

 

 

– A vote to end filibuster debate is called a cloture vote. From the 81st Congress (1949-1950) through the 91st Congress (1969-1970), there were a total of 30 votes on cloture. There were no more than seven cloture votes in any single session during those years.

 

– Starting with the 92nd Congress (1971-72), cloture votes became more frequent. Part of that can be explained by the fact that the Senate changed the required majority in 1975, making it easier to induce cloture.

 

– The 110th Congress (2007-2008) is the record-holder so far: There were 112 votes on cloture during that two-year period.

 

– So far, the 11th Congress (2009-2010) has held 41 cloture votes, 39 of them last year, two more this year.

 

Bottom Line: President Obama is correct. There were 39 cloture votes last year, nine more than the combined total for 1949-1970.

 

LINK

 

Oh, lets not forget this one:

 

Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked the No.1 item on the president's congressional "to-do-list," refusing to allow a vote on a bill that would give tax breaks for companies that "insource" jobs to the U.S. from overseas while eliminating tax deductions for companies that move jobs abroad.

 

 

http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/19/politics/senate-bring-jobs-home-bill-blocked/index.html

 

Voting against something is one thing... blocking a vote is another entirely.

[Husker_x]

I would have been satisfied with either candidate. From what I read about Romney he is a fairly deliberative person who assesses data and makes decisions only after entertaining multiple views and consulting multiple advisors.

 

However.

 

The Republican party itself is simply obsolete by my reckoning. They're on the ass-end of almost every issue of importance: human/civil rights with marriage equality, immigration, drug policy, science in general, and many would argue economics. Last year about this time I said I would have been surprised by an Obama victory, but having now had a full campaign season to consider, I can see why I was mistaken.

 

Part of it is demographics. Obama carries blacks, hispanics, single women, and the youth vote by crushing margins--and we're in a day and age now where that actually matters. The religious right that forms the current republican base is old and depleting. Even though Obama passed an unpopular healthcare bill and the economy is still breathing heavy, a GOP candidate running solely on economics got his arse handed to him. And look at the clown parade of candidates they trotted out in the primary just to get that far.

 

It's like there's no intellectual center. Only one demagogue after the next in a country where intolerance is increasingly magnified. No doubt Limbaugh and his ilk are already blaming the loss on Romney's lack of conservatism. A hysterical thought, but I guarantee that will be the rationalization. Yes, more tea party conservatism is just what the doctor ordered. They'll be lucky to win another presidential election in my lifetime if the trends continue.

[Vizsla1]

Cloture was a political move to make the republican obstructionist to a socialist agenda look silly. Are you forgetting the Nuclear option that Harry Reid installed? I can go all day but the fact remains, that this country has not operated on any Budget that has been submitted by the house to the Senate (yes, led by Harry Reid). That at the very least should concern you. I would hope. BHO did submit one last year that received zero support from either side because it was too radical. If your idea of 3.50 gas (can't put a pipeline through the aquafier- but we put so much oil on our dusty roads and drop a pretty fair amount of fertilizer on our fields) is a good thing, then you will enjoy 4 dollars you will see by March. The pipeline people are in a business. They do not wish to spill profit into our water system and the likelihood is almost zero. Unless ELF decides to sabotage it like they used to burn up SUVs and houses to prove a point about pollution.

[Vizsla1]

Husker X- so true, the republican party is on its last breath. Until they figure out how to put the toy back into a cereal box (people love free shiny things like magpies and Nancy Pelosi), it is over. But speaking of the electoral college- since we are a representative society- we ought to award electoral votes by district (like Nebraska and Maine). That would be the fairest. Popular vote would be a very bad idea--

 

Feel free to discuss Electoral College- cool, change it etc...

[knapplc]

Cloture was a political move to make the republican obstructionist to a socialist agenda look silly. Are you forgetting the Nuclear option that Harry Reid installed? I can go all day but the fact remains, that this country has not operated on any Budget that has been submitted by the house to the Senate (yes, led by Harry Reid). That at the very least should concern you. I would hope. BHO did submit one last year that received zero support from either side because it was too radical. If your idea of 3.50 gas (can't put a pipeline through the aquafier- but we put so much oil on our dusty roads and drop a pretty fair amount of fertilizer on our fields) is a good thing, then you will enjoy 4 dollars you will see by March. The pipeline people are in a business. They do not wish to spill profit into our water system and the likelihood is almost zero. Unless ELF decides to sabotage it like they used to burn up SUVs and houses to prove a point about pollution.

 

This is such utter nonsense. You think the Keystone Pipeline is being built to provide gas to America? That Canadian oil is going to China, for their burgeoning gas needs. Don't you remember CNOOC's deal to buy Nexen? Or are you just conveniently forgetting that because it doesn't fit some agenda?