Showing posts with label Barack Obama 2025. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Barack Obama 2025. Show all posts
Saturday, June 28, 2025

Trump is the Uniparty, floats an Iran policy similar to Obama's

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  Trump administration exploring $30 billion civilian nuclear deal for Iran   ... The potential deal would mark a major reversal in policy f...
Saturday, June 21, 2025

The U.S. Senate parliamentarian still has not ruled on the GOP's wacky current policy vs. current law baseline

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The current policy is the temporary Trump tax cuts from 2017.  The current law is the tax compromise worked out by Barack Obama and John Boe...

The truth is buried in the very last paragraph: Obama's war on coal did this to us

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Why electricity prices are surging for U.S. households ... certain facilities like old fossil-fuel powered plants have been decommissioned ...
Thursday, June 19, 2025

Ted Cruz reminds everyone Tucker Carlson used to be for the annihilation of Iran in 2012 when Mr. My Muslim Faith was in charge lol

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Thursday, June 5, 2025

The Republican claim that the Big Beautiful Bill's cuts to Medicaid coverage will be offset by enrollments in employer-provided health insurance is a bad joke

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The enrollment rate in employer provided health insurance is down four points 2008-2021, from 54% to 48%. Why? Costs. The average premium f...
Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Different parties, same hopium: In September 2012 Barack Obama accepted the Democrats' nomination saying Hope Needs More Time, now Trump says he needs another two weeks to see whether Putin really wants peace in Ukraine

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Like Putin's record three-day bombardment of Ukraine last weekend wasn't an answer.  
Friday, April 11, 2025

The average price of gasoline in the United States remains Obama-like in March 2025

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Sunday, March 30, 2025

As presidential mandates go, Trump's is very small, smaller than Bush 43's second term and smaller than Carter's

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 The top mandates go to Nixon II at 1.61, Johnson at 1.58, Reagan II at 1.44, IKE II at 1.36, and IKE I at 1.24. The top combined term manda...
Friday, March 21, 2025

Like Trump, Musk arrogantly dismisses limits on executive power and belittles Congress' power of the purse, Congress wallows in servitude to his seizure of power

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   ... Asked later that day whether Congress should weigh in on his widespread cuts, Musk responded, “Well, they do have a vote.” ... the a...
Thursday, March 6, 2025

Judge John McConnell blocks Trump's freeze on federal grants and loans, citing the executive's usurpation of Congress' power of the purse

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  A second federal judge indefinitely blocked President Trump’s blanket freeze on federal grants and loans, saying the administration “put ...

Our servile GOP senators, who have been completely by-passed by DOGE, try to tell Elon Musk that he can't do that lol, now have to ask pretty please from White House chief of staff Susie Wiles

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  What an absolutely contemptible lot. GOP senators tell Musk DOGE actions will require their votes  Republican senators told tech billionai...
Wednesday, March 5, 2025

Since Donald Trump wants to move the goalposts for counting the costs of his tax cuts and for calculating GDP, let's use his dumb ass unemployment rate from 2015 from now on, shall we?

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 Donald Trump had one of the worst annual dumb ass unemployment rates in history in 2020: 38.25%. Every president between Carter and Obama d...
Monday, March 3, 2025

The Current Big Lie: There was an agreement in 1991 when the Soviet Union fell apart that prevented former Eastern bloc countries from joining NATO

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  ‘There was no promise not to enlarge NATO’ - Harvard Law School Mar 16, 2022 By Jeff Neal ...
Sunday, February 23, 2025

Now the Trump administration is imitating the most odious revolutionary rhetoric of the Obama administration

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  WH's Karoline Leavitt: Trump "Is Fundamentally Transforming Our Country For The Better"   We are fundamentally transforming ...
Friday, February 14, 2025

Former S&P sovereign bond unit executive who participated in the Obama era 2011 credit downgrade basically calls Trump's America a banana republic, and DOGE not a proper government department

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  WSJ:   What about DOGE’s   accessing the Treasury Department’s   payment system? Kraemer:   We don’t have all the details of what they too...
Sunday, February 9, 2025

Just words: It's been 20 days and the war he said he'd settle before he even became president is still going strong

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  Trump says he has spoken to Putin about ending the Ukraine war      
Saturday, February 8, 2025

Obama appointed judge, Paul Engelmayer, issues sweeping order banning Musk and his allies from accessing the US Department of Treasury payments system

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 Federal Judge Blocks Elon Musk’s DOGE From Treasury System: Order requires those who have accessed payment records without proper security ...
Saturday, January 25, 2025

I don't trust either of these guys as far as I can throw them

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  In 2016 J. D. Vance and Pete Hegseth were both conventional NeverTrumpers, and had not been particularly religious. Hegseth was for Marco ...
Friday, January 24, 2025

Repealing the 22nd Amendment is a great idea, but not Republican Andy Ogles' (TN-5) idea of revising it to allow Trump a third term but not Clinton, Bush 43, nor Obama

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 Constitutional amendment to allow Trump third term introduced in the House Ogles' idea that Trump was denied the power inherent in two ...

Al Hunt and James Carville laughably pretend that Obama didn't dominate Washington by flooding the zone with shit like Trump is doing

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Hey Obama! Guess where I'm calling from! Carville: Trump Has Flooded The Zone With Sh*t And We Don't Have A Response    Al Hunt:  An...