Obama '08?

"One time in the House of Representatives [a colleague] told me a story about a proposition that a teacher put to a boy. He said, ‘Johnny, a cat fell in a well 100 feet deep. Suppose that cat climbed up 1 foot and then fell back 2 feet. How long would it take the cat to get out of the well?'

"Johnny worked assiduously with his slate and slate pencil for quite a while, and then when the teacher came down and said, ‘How are you getting along?' Johnny said, ‘Teacher, if you give me another slate and a couple of slate pencils, I am pretty sure that in the next 30 minutes I can land that cat in hell.'

"If some people get any cheer out of a $328 billion debt ceiling, I do not find much to cheer about concerning it." [Congressional Record, June 16, 1965, p. 13884].

"As I think of this bill, and the fact that the more progress we make the deeper we go into the hole, I am reminded of a group of men who were working on a street. They had dug quite a number of holes. When they got through, they failed to puddle or tamp the earth when it was returned to the hole, and they had a nice little mound, which was quite a traffic hazard.

"Not knowing what to do with it, they sat down on the curb and had a conference. After a while, one of the fellows snapped his fingers and said, ‘I have it. I know how we will get rid of that overriding earth and remove the hazard. We will just dig the hole deeper.'" [Congressional Record, June 16, 1965, p. 13884].

All the conservatives know how to do is bitch, bitch, and bitch with no solutions coming from their side of the isle. Wonder of wonders that they did nothing to stop Bush and his spending - while the GOP congress approved almost everything Bush wanted - including the veto power the president didn't use to cut the budget.

Bunch of hypocrites.

Wonder of wonders; more conservatives have lost their jobs and homes, and the conservatives want to cut them off from having universal health care and supplements to carry them over while they wait to find jobs after they've been laid off from their jobs. They think it's strictly a liberal problem and all conservatives have enough assets to carry them over until our economy picks up again. After all, this is a transfer of wealth from the workers to the non-workers.

They can't see their own hypocrisy.

Conservatives ran the banks, major industries,

only Conservative run Major Corporations.

Conservatives ran the banks, major industries, and the whole economy into the ground.

Mr Obama is trying to fix it.
He deserves credit, support, and praise.

This nations debt is so freaking high under Obama that if we were a European country, we would
not be allowed to join the European union of countries because our dept is so freaking high

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is asking Congress to slash almost in half a 43-year-old Justice Department program that provides death, disability and education benefits to the families of slain police and public safety officers.

President Obama's 2010 budget reduces funding for the Public Safety Officers' Death Benefits Program from $110 million this year to $60 million for next year's budget.

The program, which pays benefits of more than $300,000 to the survivors of a safety officer killed in the line of duty, received $118 million in 2008.

A Justice Department finance spokeswoman told FOX News that the proposed cut is a false statistic because the program requires "mandatory funding," which means the money is automatically paid to all the families of slain officers.

Any family member who is eligible for benefits under this program will receive them," she said. "If the amount of claims surpasses the amount requested, the program will be further funded."

Killings of police officers reached their lowest point in decades last year, but are rising so far this year.

So far this year, 45 officers have died in the line of duty, according to The Officer Down Memorial Page Web site. By the end of May 2008, 43 officers had been killed. For all of 2008, 134 officers died in the line of duty.

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration will retain a Bush-era rule for polar bears, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced Friday, in a move that angered activists who noted the rule limits what can be done to protect the species from global warming.

The administration had faced a weekend deadline to decide whether it should allow government agencies to cite the federal Endangered Species Act, which protects the bear, to impose limits on greenhouse gases from power plants, factories and automobiles even if the emissions occur thousands of miles from where the polar bear lives.

"We must do all we can to help the polar bear recover, recognizing that the greatest threat to the polar bear is the melting of Arctic sea ice caused by climate change," Salazar said in a statement. "However, the Endangered Species Act is not the proper mechanism for controlling our nation’s carbon emissions.

"However, the Endangered Species Act is not the proper mechanism for controlling our nation’s carbon emissions.

You attacked him as if he wasn't going to give any money to the survivors which was an obvious false attack.

When examined, he only cut funding based on a prediction that the deaths would go down in 2010, not 2009. If the deaths don't go down the funding will be added later.