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Your auto insurance mandate argument ignores the federal structure of the United States government. There is no federal auto insurance mandate. These are all state or local level laws. These kinds of laws are unconstitutional in a few ways, including under the 10th Amendment. Since regulating motor vehicles and their operations fall under the domain of the states, the federal government has no authority here. Furthermore, one cannot ever avoid the health insurance mandate like someone can avoid an auto insurance mandate. No one forces people to drive. People are free to choose to walk, use public transportation, carpool, etc. Avoiding the health insurance mandate would require someone to relinquish their United States citizenship.

This isn’t portion isn’t directed at you, but at the peanut gallery in general:
The individual health insurance mandate is not authorized by Congress’ taxation authority because it is not a tax. Tax revenue is paid by taxpayers directly to the government, while premiums paid due to the mandate will go directly to private entities (i.e. insurance companies).
What good is a mandate you can opt-out of? Winning logic!
Wow, so many straw man arguments from the libs! The topic at hand is finding the constitutional authority for the mandate, not to prove its benefits nor its origins.

Learn to argue.

Some do, some don’t.

Most simply point out that it was A REPUBLICAN – Mitt Romney – who developed the model – in which he pointed out that it’s simply a matter of PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY to purchase Health Care Insurance.

So – he MANDATED it.

But of course – if Democrats do it … it’s called SOCIALISM.

When REPUBLICANS do it – - – it’s sound policy.

LOL … Just goes to show you – Republicans are American Hating Partisan Hacks.

Thanks for providing me the opportunity to prove that.

The Republicans say that the financial melt down of 2008 wasn’t because of there was a republican president ( with veto power) in the white house or because there was a republican controlled senate…They say it was because of a Dem controlled Congress…Now we have a Democrat president and Dem controlled Senate. The congress is controlled by the Republicans…According to their own logic, aren’t the Republicans now responsible for the economy?….

Republican wrong-way POLICIES are to blame for the multiple problems with our economy, and this includes the housing and credit markets’ COLLAPSE that began as far back as 2004 (when National Public Radio’s "All Things Considered" issued their first dire warnings about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, both of which had been DEREGULATED by the GOP-controlled government.

Deregulation, if you think about the meaning, is basically saying to greed-driven corporate CEOs, banksters, or Wall Street that you "trust them to make their own rules"—you are removing any checks and balance systems, any consumer protections, and any government oversight and pretty much letting for-profit companies or banks or Wall Street tycoons "self-regulate" in the "hope" that they will "play fair" with the American people or that they will act in the "best interests" of the nation’s economic well-being. Both Libertarians and the far-right-wingers that control the GOP think this is a workable idea, but the COLLAPSE of our savings and loan industry from the Reagan/Bush and Bush/Quayle days would suggest otherwise, just as the FINANCIAL SYSTEM MELTDOWN that followed the COLLAPSE of our housing and credit markets offers even more proof. Review former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan’s testimony before a Senate Committee are the Bush/Cheney and GOP-caused GREAT RECESSION on C-SPAN (sentiments he repeated on "Meet The Press" in the months following his Senate appearance): "I was WRONG to believe that they [housing and credit markets, Wall Street, AIG, financial institutions] could or even WOULD self-regulate."

The DEREGULATION fiasco was accompanied by Republicans’ DRUNKEN-SAILOR SPENDING that swallowed up President Clinton’s massive surplus (Krugman, 2008; Suskind, 2004), and their tendency to ignore any "Pay-Go" rules (pay as you go) when they passed UNFUNDED MANDATE after UNFUNDED MANDATE (the FAILED and NOT PAID FOR "No Child Left Behind"; the UNPAID FOR Medicare Part D that added trillions to our debt; the ILLEGAL and UNFUNDED invasion of Iraq which meant borrowing money from Communist China; etc.).

Yes, Republicans are responsible for the economic messes, and this 112th Congress which is again under the aegis of right-wing Republicans is thus far the "least productive Congress" in more than 50 years (according to several news reports). The Republicans want to deliberately TANK THE ECONOMY in their ongoing efforts to undermine any successes the Obama administration has. In addition, the teabagging evangelical extremists and far-right-wing Republican governors of at least seven states are causing massive LAY-OFFS in their ongoing war on full-time American workers that began when Reagan idiotically (alzheimeredly) fired PATCO in the 1980s—not good for recovery at all!

Check out recovery.gov and whitehouse.gov for the positive actions that have been taken by the Obama administration since he first took office—you will be quite impressed. Trade deals to have more American-made exports sold on foreign markets (India, Indonesia, etc.); new and refurbished plants operating in more than 40 states to make alternative energy products so the U.S. can REBUILD its GOP-outsourced MANUFACTURING JOBS BASE; the Jobs bills that passed after being deliberately HELD UP (filibustered or otherwise blocked unreasonably) by Senator Mitch McConnell (a multi-millionaire from a very poor state of KY where the unemployment rate surpasses the national average)—YES, the state of our struggling economy is the fault of the Republicans.

Since Reagen’s re-elect, the Republicans have controlled the congress for 17 years.

Given that abortion is the number (or number two) issue for many republicans, what are the 17 ways they’ve reduced the number of abortions?

WHAT!?!?

The GOP only controlled congress for 10 years since before Reagan was elected

from the 1994 election until the 2000 election
(by the way during those terms, the GOP got the government spending under control)

Then there was a split congress for a bit when a GOP became independent and caucused with the Dems

Then from the 2002 elections until the 2006 elections.

Then the Dems controlled until 2010 election when we split the Congress again.

When Obama had majority Democrat congress he couldn’t pass it. Now he is trying make them think he will pass it with majority Republican congress? Who want the borders protected ?

Obama is fooling people, manipulating them and is only using this issue for votes, thats all. He can never pass the dream act and that all realitives of illegals can become citizens and get tax paid free college. NO WAY! Its insane!

The new Dream Act should be:
1: All illegal immigrants return to their origin and apply to be legal immigrants. They serve their time in their home country, say 2 years for every 1 they spent here illegally as a time out, and then after approval they can come in as legal aliens.
2: Any illegal immigrant who committed ANY crime (besides the felony of being here illegally) should have an extra 10 years tacked on to their time out.
3: Anchor babies should be outlawed. If you aren’t born to verifiable US citizens, you do not receive citizenship for it.
4: If monies are sent out of the US before the alien becomes a citizen it should be confiscated.
5: Illegal aliens should only receive care at hospitals for life threatening things and deported for follow up medical care.
6: Aliens should be given 7 days to return to their home country. If they haven’t left after 7 days then they should be deported and tagged if they ever return to be incarcerated for life in their home country. Micro chip them and if they return the the US, we can shoot them.
7: Education is limited to citizens. If they want to be educated, return to their home country.
8: English is the law of the land. Learn it as a requirement for citizenship or you will be deported.
9: The American flag is the only national flag to be flown. If you want your flag flown, return to your country of origin and fly your flag at your own convenience.
10: If you don’t like it, planes leave daily for most of these countries. Be on one. If not, a nice shackeled bus ride to the border can be arranged.

I think calculators would run out of numbers if Obama had a total dem congress what say you?

Sure.

Just like when Righties ran up the deficit under Reagan and Bush.

Fact is – Righties LOVE Ronnie and GW – for spending the government into the ground.

So – basically – you’re just whining for no effect.

If you had a point – maybe someone would listen.

But – you don’t – so no one does.

Now you can go back to your mommy’s basement and play your computer games.

LOL …. righties …. what whackos!!

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First they wanted a balanced budget amendment then they wanted a supreme congress. Some Republicans are trying to rewrite history that is was Obama that wanted the supreme congress. And read my lips, Republicans will pass QE3 that is coming and again they will try to add something so they don`t look weak in front of their dads passing it.

Yes, I think it did.

Remember how the Republicans refused to work on any other legislative bill, including Health Care Benefits for 9/11 First Responders & Unemployment benefits, until they got tax cut extensions for the wealthiest people in the country.
I mean this was less than a year ago, you guys can’t have that horrible of a memory.

Just usual selective memory.

They ran on jobs, jobs and more jobs while bashing Obama on JOBS. So where are the jobs?

Now they’re pulling the usual don’t raise taxes during a recession. But they also said don’t raise taxes when time are good and again don’t raise taxes when times are mediocre. Now they say don’t tax the job creators. What job creators? Where are they? Who are they? No one apparently has seen them.

Unless they’re talking about these "job creators"::

Job listings say the unemployed need not apply

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/job-listings-unemployed-not-apply-133143362.html;_ylt=AgvbG6OF9eSZNcq061b3kd.s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTM5NTZrNDY3BHBrZwNmYTI5ZWZhMi03ZDJlLTNlZjYtYWVmOS02MmMwN2M4YzMwOGUEcG9zAzEEc2VjA01lZGlhVG9wU3RvcnkEdmVyAzZhM2ZhOGUwLWI3OTItMTFlMC1iZTliLTU4Mzc4NDQxYzRkMg–;_ylg=X3oDMTFpNzk0NjhtBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdANob21lBHB0A3NlY3Rpb25z;_ylv=3

Well what a marvelous job they’re doing on creating jobs.

Last year all those tax cuts costs $1.9 trillion and unemployment is over 10%. No one has to look any further than Reagan and the 2 Bushes to see the historical results. All three spoke about nothing but no taxes and no taxes. Yet all three left a recession, massive debt behind . 2 of the three eventually raised taxes too little too late leaving high unemployment. Currently we have a recession and high unemployment yet not a damn soul sees any f*cking correlation whatsoever.

Thanks to endless tax cuts the dollar is in the toilet. A dollar used to get $1.50 Canadian now it won’t get a whole dollar CAD. So ALL imports costs more. The majority of our oil comes from Canada.

Meanwhile taxes haven’t been this low in 60 years and it’s clear they aren’t working. And the one damn thing that needs to be on the table that’s not on the table are taxes.

Is the number one goal of the Republicans in Congress jobs? I certainly do not believe that their number 1 idea is jobs. Democrats hold that idea. Republicans is Tax Cuts for the rich. XD
@Comptonia Jackson **"Is the number one goal of the Republicans in Congress……Jobs?" or "Is jobs the number one goal of the Republicans in Congress"**
@M Guy….I forgot the name. I know the government doesn’t create the jobs but it creates an *environment for jobs*. I am seeing which side has more better idea of**Creating** anenvironmentt for jobs.

1) tax cuts for the rich and corporations
2) ensure that poor women have no access to family planning services
3) make it difficult for the poor to vote (as they’d likely have to pay to obtain documentation that they’d need to have to acquire a voter ID card…read: "poll tax"), by making all sorts of ridiculous claims about non-existent, rampant voter fraud
4) ensure that consumers are denied protections from the rapacious greed of the banking industry
5) keep unemployment high to defeat Obama, and to depress wages for American workers, which is the Koch Brothers’ wet dream
6) deny all of Obama’s nominations an "up or down" vote, after having demanded that all of Bush’s nominees get an "up or down" vote
7) cripple any type of economic stimulus with tax cuts, instead of working on infrastructure investment
plaster their "faith" throughout public policy and public spaces (and claim that it isn’t "establishment")
9) destroy any and all civil, and civic infrastructures through continually gutting government revenues, even in the face of revenue shortfalls

Job creation is down around number 130, or so…not very high on the list…

Internet : president of china, jiang zemin picking his nose.

google: president of china picking his nose in public ..

how can the president of china pick his nose in public for the world to see.

Jiang Zemin picking his Nose in Congress.

How can the President of china pick his nose in public????

i think Obama has also picking his nose in public , becausethey are all nomal people.

They are appointed by the president and approved by the senate. voters don’t touch them.