Say What? Election edition

Flopping Aces ^ | 11-12-10 | Gary Kukis

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Liberals:

President Obama, in August: Republicans “...have not come up with a single solitary, new idea to address the challenges of the American people. They don't have a single idea that's different from George Bush's ideas ... not one.”

Obama in August: “They haven't come out with a single solitary idea that is different from policies that held sway for eight years before Democrats took over. Not a single policy difference that's discernable from [George W.] Bush. Not one.”

President Obama: “And so my job is to make sure that I'm looking at all ideas that are on the table. When it comes to job creation, if Republicans have good ideas for job growth that can drive down the unemployment rate, and we haven't thought of them, we haven't looked at them but we think they have a chance of working, we want to try some.” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs: "The goal is to seek their input. He wants to hear their ideas. If there are good ideas -- and I think he assumes there will be -- we will look at those ideas."

President Obama: "We'd be misreading the election if we thought the American people want to see us for the next two years relitigate arguments that we had over the last two years."

President Obama (4 minutes later; same talk): "We have some tough choices here. We already had a big deficit that I inherited and that has been made worse because of the recession."

President Obama in November: “I'm doing a whole lot of reflecting, and I think there will be areas where we will have to do a better job. With all that stuff coming at folks fast and furious -- a recovery package, what we had to do with respect to the banks, what we had to do with respect to the auto companies -- I think people started looking at all of this and it felt as if government was getting much more intrusive into people's lives than they were accustomed to.”

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President Obama: “I think that what happened over the course of two years was that we had to take a series of big, emergency steps quickly and most of them in the first six months of my Administration. Each of them had a big price tag. You've got intervention in the banks. You've got the auto bailout. You've got a stimulus package. Each one with a lot of zeroes behind it. And people looked at that and they said, ‘Boy, this feels as if there's a huge expansion of government.’ ”

Steve Kroft: “Well, it was a huge expansion of government.”

Obama: “What I didn't effectively, I think, drive home, because we were in such a rush to get this stuff done, is that we were taking these steps not because of some theory that we wanted to expand government. It was because we had an emergency situation and we wanted to make sure the economy didn't go off a cliff. ”

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President Obama: "At a time when we are going to ask folks across the board to make such difficult sacrifices, I don't see how we can afford to borrow an additional $700 billion from other countries to make all the Bush tax cuts permanent, even for the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans." He has never talked about the so-called cost of the middle-class tax cuts, which are far more than $700 billion.

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Repeal Obamacare; stop spending the so-called Stimulus Bill; and place an leftover TARP money back in the general fund.

Make the take cuts permanent for everyone;

And CUT spending.

My God, why stand around wringing our hands when we know what to do.

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Sadly, there’s some truth to this. There is a formal mathematical expression for the relationship, however.

Obama’_Ideas=(All_of_W’s_Worst_Ideas)^4 + (465 * Rev_Wright)

I know the units of measurement are messed up. But I can’t help that, its Washington D.C.