Obama's nomination woes continue

[Imran Siddiqui]

God, the '30s were ****ing surreal.

Look at the data. The deficits during FY 1930-32 (ignoring '29 since the pre-Depression years aren't comparable - but that was a surplus as well) were much smaller than those run for the four years later (in '37, FDR tried to run something closer to a balanced budget, leading to the "Roosevelt Depression"). In 1930, Hoover actually ran a surplus that was about half as large as his only significant deficit.

He's talking about the Democrats railing against a Republican for tax and spend and leading the country to socialism.

[Fake Boris]

I don't understand the outrage in this thread.

Anyone who is successful and wealthy is pretty much a tax cheat by definition...

[DinoDoc]

Damn Obama! Quit trying to find qualified people and get yourself some cronies! They at least know how to hide and deny their records.

I wish he was finding qualified people.

[Winston]

Easy now, finding qualified people might be above his pay grade.

[Zkribbler]

I wish he was finding qualified people.

It's hard to find qualified people and who can meet Obama's high ethical standards. Bush got around this problem by ignoring qualifications and ethics and just hired cronies who were loyal to him.

[Winston]

It's hard to find qualified people and who can meet Obama's high ethical standards.

Give it up Zkribbler. I think he's already married.

[Arrian]

Anyone who is successful and wealthy is pretty much a tax cheat by definition...

Take note, folks. THAT is a socialist.

-Arrian

[rah]

It's hard to find qualified people and who can meet Obama's high ethical standards. Bush got around this problem by ignoring qualifications and ethics and just hired cronies who were loyal to him.

Gee it seems Obama is ignoring qualifications also if he's actually vetting these people first. And if he's not vetting them the I would say he's ignoring his own rules. SO either way, he's not the saint you guys keep trying to say he is.

[Naked Gents Rut]

He's talking about the Democrats railing against a Republican for tax and spend and leading the country to socialism.

Indeed. I found it particularly surreal that FDR was doing the criticizing, considering he would later become the paragon of tax and spend liberalism. Ramo was obviously too busy trying to pick a pointless fight to notice, however.

[Winston]

Anyone who is successful and wealthy is pretty much a tax cheat by definition...

Take note, folks. THAT is a socialist.

Brilliantly observed.

[Arrian]

Yeah, FDR is a perfect example of a politician saying whatever to get elected, and then governing in a completely different manner.

I'm glad he did, though.

-Arrian

[Naked Gents Rut]

Yeah, FDR is a perfect example of a politician saying whatever to get elected, and then governing in a completely different manner.

Obama truly is the second coming of FDR.

[Ramo]

Fiscal conservatism was the economic consensus in the day, so FDR went along with that line. His campaign was pretty substance free, with the exception of the Oglethorpe commencement address:

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it: If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

The first thing he did in office, in fact, was cutting services. Then came the New Deal, etc.

And Garner was always a right wing nutjob. That's why he was kicked off the ticket.

[Fake Boris]

Take note, folks. THAT is a socialist.

-Arrian

Pretty much anyone with a seven-figure portfolio has stuff in the Caribbean and rents a mansion from a company owned by their nephew...

[Fake Boris]

This said, most of it isn't illegal in itself. Those are mostly 'loopholes' that for some 'strange' reason never get addressed by lawmakers. Guess why?