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Title: Obama: "...its duty not just to the Senate but to the American people to make sure we can thoroughly and adequately evaluate the record of every single nominee who comes before us."
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Barack Obama - Senate website
URL Source: http://obama.senate.gov/press/050922-remarks_of_sena/
Published: Sep 22, 2005
Author: Barack Obama
Post Date: 2008-12-05 09:00:17 by bluegrass
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Views: 1809
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"Let me also say that I remain distressed that the White House during this confirmation process, which overall went smoothly, failed to provide critical documents as part of the record that could have provided us with a better basis to make our judgment with respect to the nomination. This White House continues to stymie efforts on the part of the Senate to do its job. I hope with the next nominee who comes up for the Supreme Court that the White House recognizes that in fact it is its duty not just to the Senate but to the American people to make sure we can thoroughly and adequately evaluate the record of every single nominee who comes before us." Anyone that puts faith in a hypocrite IS a hypocrite.
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#22. To: bluegrass (#13)
Something along the lines of Swiss cantons?? They practice something akin to direct democracy, and it has a few drawbacks such as a citizen being allowed to challenge the parliaments' law and put it to a direct/majority-wins vote with a petition.
The obvious is beyond comprehension by partisan sheep. Rahm Emanuel will sit behind the Oval office desk with a direct line to Tel Aviv, Obummer will be in the closet with a direct line to the local KFC. Damn, that bothers the white guilters that were snookered.
Exactly. Why not copy success?
Perhaps the dual-citizenship issue is the screen to cover for the dual-citizens with the actual influence.
Perhaps, but I suggest the Jews have the arrogance now to be quite open as to who will run the country. No more hiding in the background. $750 million dollars bought a lot of votes.
Ah, another analysis gem from the scrapper.
Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things. T. S. Eliot
Gee, I thought we had that once and junked it ???
Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things. T. S. Eliot
That doesn't exactly explain the wrist cutting that goes on here daily.
Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things. T. S. Eliot
Agreed, but it's a compulsion for them to setup the screen play. Damn, that works for their Hollywood cousins too. : )
The possibility of a true Republic gets junked everytime the bankers take over the issuing of currency and credit.
It doesn't explain the absolute self-inflicted throat slicing I see on any of the more partisan boards for any party.
That traitorous socialist's reaction to the crash was waaaay less radical and criminal than the ludicrous 3 page knee-jerk, panic reaction of the Bush administration. For God's sake people shake off the shibboleths and get a little perspective on this mess.
Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things. T. S. Eliot
Untrue. Roosevelt and those with him radically restructured the Federal government. The Neocons used that structure to their advantage.
Tragically, throat slicing was perhaps the second best option we had in the wake of the worst administration in American history.
Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things. T. S. Eliot
Not to belabor a point, but every succeeding administration since Johnson has proven to be worse than the previous one. Seeing who and what Obama is appointing to various offices (not to mention his own egregious baggage), I expect he'll keep the pattern of being worse than his predecessors. I ask this in all seriousness: How do people that support Obama turn on the "Ignore History" switch? I saw some otherwise intelligent Bush supporters do the same thing. Just as we all knew that Bush would attack Iraq no matter what, it's quite plain that Obama will most likely attack Pakistan. Is that something that you choose not to see or does it just not matter?
You're nuts if you believe that. FDR gave us the biggest ponzi-scheme in the history of mankind: Social Security and Medicare, which is under-funded to the tune of $45-50 trillion.
For God's sake people shake off the shibboleths and get a little perspective on this mess. Here's some "perspective" for you to contemplate: a. The Wall Street bankster/insurance bailout nonsense was trumpeted and pushed by socialist traitors like Chuckie Cheesecake Schumer and Fat Boy Barney Frank, both high profile Dems. It comes as no surprise because Wall Street banksters and insurance fraudsters were key donors to Obama's campaign treasure chest. b. Here's a summary of the findings of the UCLA research re: FDR extending the Depression by his meddling. newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/...nged-Depression-5409.aspx "FDR's policies prolonged Depression by 7 years, UCLA economists calculate" Two UCLA economists say they have figured out why the Great Depression dragged on for almost 15 years, and they blame a suspect previously thought to be beyond reproach: President Franklin D. Roosevelt. After scrutinizing Roosevelt's record for four years, Harold L. Cole and Lee E. Ohanian conclude in a new study that New Deal policies signed into law 71 years ago thwarted economic recovery for seven long years. "Why the Great Depression lasted so long has always been a great mystery, and because we never really knew the reason, we have always worried whether we would have another 10- to 15-year economic slump," said Ohanian, vice chair of UCLA's Department of Economics. "We found that a relapse isn't likely unless lawmakers gum up a recovery with ill-conceived stimulus policies." In an article in the August issue of the Journal of Political Economy, Ohanian and Cole blame specific anti-competition and pro-labor measures that Roosevelt promoted and signed into law June 16, 1933. "President Roosevelt believed that excessive competition was responsible for the Depression by reducing prices and wages, and by extension reducing employment and demand for goods and services," said Cole, also a UCLA professor of economics. "So he came up with a recovery package that would be unimaginable today, allowing businesses in every industry to collude without the threat of antitrust prosecution and workers to demand salaries about 25 percent above where they ought to have been, given market forces. The economy was poised for a beautiful recovery, but that recovery was stalled by these misguided policies." Using data collected in 1929 by the Conference Board and the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Cole and Ohanian were able to establish average wages and prices across a range of industries just prior to the Depression. By adjusting for annual increases in productivity, they were able to use the 1929 benchmark to figure out what prices and wages would have been during every year of the Depression had Roosevelt's policies not gone into effect. They then compared those figures with actual prices and wages as reflected in the Conference Board data. In the three years following the implementation of Roosevelt's policies, wages in 11 key industries averaged 25 percent higher than they otherwise would have done, the economists calculate. But unemployment was also 25 percent higher than it should have been, given gains in productivity. Meanwhile, prices across 19 industries averaged 23 percent above where they should have been, given the state of the economy. With goods and services that much harder for consumers to afford, demand stalled and the gross national product floundered at 27 percent below where it otherwise might have been. "High wages and high prices in an economic slump run contrary to everything we know about market forces in economic downturns," Ohanian said. "As we've seen in the past several years, salaries and prices fall when unemployment is high. By artificially inflating both, the New Deal policies short-circuited the market's self-correcting forces." The policies were contained in the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA), which exempted industries from antitrust prosecution if they agreed to enter into collective bargaining agreements that significantly raised wages. Because protection from antitrust prosecution all but ensured higher prices for goods and services, a wide range of industries took the bait, Cole and Ohanian found. By 1934 more than 500 industries, which accounted for nearly 80 percent of private, non-agricultural employment, had entered into the collective bargaining agreements called for under NIRA. Cole and Ohanian calculate that NIRA and its aftermath account for 60 percent of the weak recovery. Without the policies, they contend that the Depression would have ended in 1936 instead of the year when they believe the slump actually ended: 1943. Roosevelt's role in lifting the nation out of the Great Depression has been so revered that Time magazine readers cited it in 1999 when naming him the 20th century's second-most influential figure. "This is exciting and valuable research," said Robert E. Lucas Jr., the 1995 Nobel Laureate in economics, and the John Dewey Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago. "The prevention and cure of depressions is a central mission of macroeconomics, and if we can't understand what happened in the 1930s, how can we be sure it won't happen again?" NIRA's role in prolonging the Depression has not been more closely scrutinized because the Supreme Court declared the act unconstitutional within two years of its passage. "Historians have assumed that the policies didn't have an impact because they were too short-lived, but the proof is in the pudding," Ohanian said. "We show that they really did artificially inflate wages and prices." Even after being deemed unconstitutional, Roosevelt's anti-competition policies persisted — albeit under a different guise, the scholars found. Ohanian and Cole painstakingly documented the extent to which the Roosevelt administration looked the other way as industries once protected by NIRA continued to engage in price-fixing practices for four more years. The number of antitrust cases brought by the Department of Justice fell from an average of 12.5 cases per year during the 1920s to an average of 6.5 cases per year from 1935 to 1938, the scholars found. Collusion had become so widespread that one Department of Interior official complained of receiving identical bids from a protected industry (steel) on 257 different occasions between mid-1935 and mid-1936. The bids were not only identical but also 50 percent higher than foreign steel prices. Without competition, wholesale prices remained inflated, averaging 14 percent higher than they would have been without the troublesome practices, the UCLA economists calculate. NIRA's labor provisions, meanwhile, were strengthened in the National Relations Act, signed into law in 1935. As union membership doubled, so did labor's bargaining power, rising from 14 million strike days in 1936 to about 28 million in 1937. By 1939 wages in protected industries remained 24 percent to 33 percent above where they should have been, based on 1929 figures, Cole and Ohanian calculate. Unemployment persisted. By 1939 the U.S. unemployment rate was 17.2 percent, down somewhat from its 1933 peak of 24.9 percent but still remarkably high. By comparison, in May 2003, the unemployment rate of 6.1 percent was the highest in nine years. Recovery came only after the Department of Justice dramatically stepped enforcement of antitrust cases nearly four-fold and organized labor suffered a string of setbacks, the economists found. "The fact that the Depression dragged on for years convinced generations of economists and policy-makers that capitalism could not be trusted to recover from depressions and that significant government intervention was required to achieve good outcomes," Cole said. "Ironically, our work shows that the recovery would have been very rapid had the government not intervened."
iconoclast: Ah, another analysis gem from the scrapper. It's not "analysis". It's fact. Do you dispute the fact that Wall Street banksters and insurance fraudsters were key industry donors to Obama's Presidential campaign treasure chest?
Correction. Lincoln radically restructured the Federal government. The more thoughtful, slower reacting pols of the thirties put loony (/sarc) things on the books like the Glass-Steagall Act as opposed to putting the Treasury printers on warp speed to bail out Wall Street=>Main Street banking crooks. Forsake your blogs and the self-comforting little stories that you and Limbaugh's grandpappys expounded on for your edification and read some history.
Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things. T. S. Eliot
Leave my man Ron out of this. ;-) "The perfect is the enemy of the good." Voltaire (1764) The more things change, the more they stay the same. "There Is Nothing New Under The Sun" (Ecclesiastes 1:9-14)
Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things. T. S. Eliot
Neither Very rare are the omniscient.
Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things. T. S. Eliot
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. "If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
It doesn't take omniscience to see a tool named Obama willfully being used by warmongers. We've been through this before with Bush. I can only assume that you're in favor of even more illegal and murderous warfare on the part of the Feds and their Israeli puppetmasters.
Neither Very rare are the omniscient. The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea. Mao Tse-Tung
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
It may come down to that though.
World Commie Fascism administered by central Banksters at new, higher and more atrocious levels. And the tools rejoiced
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
Nuts abound but only a very small subset believe that, I'm sure. FDR met his maker 20 years before that went on the books.
Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things. T. S. Eliot
Bums love change.
Whoever said the Chinese were stupid? Mao Tse-Tung woulda made Gordon Gekko look like an Eagle Scout!
Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things. T. S. Eliot
Do you have your little red book with you ?
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
It may come down to that though. Apparently Henry believes it HAS come down to that.
Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things. T. S. Eliot
Try to get your money back on your assumptions. They're a gigantic baloney stuffer.
Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things. T. S. Eliot
Never had one in my hand. Guess I'll never have need for one as long as you keep postin.
Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things. T. S. Eliot
Guess I'll never have need for one as long as you keep postin. I'm doing my best to make 4um feel like home for you. It's good to keep at least one or two World Communist tools around and posting.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
They're observations based on what he and his appointees have said. You appear to suffer from TBCSSS - True Believer, Can't See Shit Syndrome. Bushies were afflicted with the same debilitating condition.
NeoCons and NeoCommies are heading the same place; just some disagreements on the exact path when in fact they have little choice.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
Well we haven't tried massive protests in washington. If we had hundreds of thousands of people in the washington mall day after day like they have after third world elections we might make some headway. Apathy seems to be reigning though.
http://www.appletreeblog.com/wp-content/2008/07/obama-berlin.jpg "If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
dear god, is that sobering and depressing.
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestI'd like to see fifty, sixty or seventy new small republics in loose alliance replace the Federal beast.
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#23. To: bluegrass (#21)
The problem is the Federal government,
#24. To: X-15 (#22)
Something along the lines of Swiss cantons??
#25. To: Cynicom (#23)
Rahm Emanuel will sit behind the Oval office desk with a direct line to Tel Aviv
#26. To: bluegrass (#25)
Perhaps the dual-citizenship issue is the screen to cover for the dual-citizens with the actual influence.
#27. To: scrapper2 (#17)
Wall Street was a key campaign donor of Obama. I guess it means the bankers' party is the one you voted for - the Dems.
#28. To: bluegrass (#13)
I'd like to see fifty, sixty or seventy new small republics
#29. To: bluegrass (#21)
The problem is the Federal government, not the stooge on display to make us think there's a president in office.
#30. To: Cynicom (#26)
#31. To: iconoclast (#28)
#32. To: iconoclast (#29)
#33. To: scrapper2 (#19)
That traitorous socialist should have his grave moved to Russia or to Israel.
#34. To: iconoclast, scrapper2 (#33)
That traitorous socialist's reaction to the crash was waaaay less radical and criminal
#35. To: bluegrass (#32)
It doesn't explain the absolute self-inflicted throat slicing
#36. To: iconoclast (#35)
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#37. To: iconoclast (#33)
That traitorous socialist's reaction to the crash was waaaay less radical and criminal than the ludicrous 3 page knee-jerk, panic reaction of the Bush administration.
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#38. To: iconoclast (#33)
That traitorous socialist's reaction to the crash was waaaay less radical and criminal than the ludicrous 3 page knee-jerk, panic reaction of the Bush administration.
#39. To: iconoclast (#27)
scrapper: Wall Street was a key campaign donor of Obama. I guess it means the bankers' party is the one you voted for - the Dems.
#40. To: bluegrass (#34)
Roosevelt and those with him radically restructured the Federal government.
#41. To: bluegrass (#36)
Not to belabor a point, but every succeeding administration since Johnson has proven to be worse than the previous one.
#42. To: bluegrass (#36)
Is that something that you choose not to see or does it just not matter?
#43. To: iconoclast (#41)
Mao Tse-Tung
All reactionaries are paper tigers.
Mao Tse-Tung
Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
Mao Tse-Tung
Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
Mao Tse-Tung
Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
Mao Tse-Tung
Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.
Mao Tse-Tung
I voted for you during your last election.
Mao Tse-Tung
In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.
Mao Tse-Tung
In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.
Mao Tse-Tung
In waking a tiger, use a long stick.
Mao Tse-Tung
Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.
Mao Tse-Tung
Learn from the masses, and then teach them.
Mao Tse-Tung
Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
Mao Tse-Tung
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
Mao Tse-Tung
Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
Mao Tse-Tung
People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.
Mao Tse-Tung
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
Mao Tse-Tung
Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.
Mao Tse-Tung
Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.
Mao Tse-Tung
Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.
Mao Tse-Tung
The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.
Mao Tse-Tung
The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
Mao Tse-Tung
The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
Mao Tse-Tung
The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.
Mao Tse-Tung
There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
Mao Tse-Tung
We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
Mao Tse-Tung
We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.
Mao Tse-Tung
Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
Mao Tse-Tung
Women hold up half the sky.
Mao Tse-Tung
#44. To: iconoclast (#42)
Very rare are the omniscient.
#45. To: iconoclast (#42)
Is that something that you choose not to see or does it just not matter?
#46. To: bluegrass (#3)
There are methods to employ that would reboot the government. They're not pretty and no one seems to want to to do it.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss — The Who
#47. To: iconoclast (#42)
#48. To: bluegrass (#47)
#49. To: X-15 (#37)
You're nuts if you believe that. FDR gave us ..... Medicare
#50. To: Rotara (#48)
#51. To: Rotara (#43)
Good post.
#52. To: iconoclast (#51)
#53. To: farmfriend (#46)
There are methods to employ that would reboot the government. They're not pretty and no one seems to want to to do it.
#54. To: bluegrass (#44)
I can only assume that you're in favor of even more illegal and murderous warfare on the part of the Feds and their Israeli puppetmasters.
#55. To: Rotara (#52)
Do you have your little red book with you ?
#56. To: iconoclast (#55)
Never had one in my hand.
#57. To: iconoclast (#54)
your assumptions.
#58. To: bluegrass (#57)
You appear to suffer from TBCSSS - True Believer, Can't See Shit Syndrome. Bushies were afflicted with the same debilitating condition.
#59. To: iconoclast (#53)
Apparently Henry believes it HAS come down to that.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss — The Who
#60. To: farmfriend (#59)
Well we haven't tried massive protests in washington. If we had hundreds of thousands of people in the washington mall day after day like they have after third world elections we might make some headway. Apathy seems to be reigning though.
#61. To: All (#60)
http://www.barackobamaismyhomeboy.com/images/city/preview/BarackObama-Berlin2.jpg
#62. To: Rotara, farmfriend (#60)
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