On Voting Republicans Out Of Office

The repugs need to be ballot box removed...

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The numbers are in, and no matter how you look at them, 2012 was a way better year for stocks than 2011.

Last year’s stock market performance was particularly impressive given all the end-of-year fiscal cliff fear, pre-election uncertainty and ongoing sovereign debt problems in Europe.

2012 was a surprisingly fruitful year to be an investor. Here are some key numbers to demonstrate just how strong the stock market performance was:

The S&P 500 gained 13.4%, marking the benchmark U.S. index’s largest annual return since 2009 and fourth-largest return in the last decade.
The Nasdaq Composite Index was up nearly 16%. That’s a vast improvement from a year ago, when the tech-heavy index fell 1.8%.
128 companies went public – the second-highest IPO total in the last five years.
It was a good year for small cap stocks too. The Russell 2000 Index, which gauges U.S. small caps, returned 14.7% this year.
Despite a late-year slump, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), the world’s largest stock, gained 31% – topping $700 for the first time in its history at one point.
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) was one of the year’s biggest gainers, rising more than 100%. BAC’s move headlined a nice bounce-back year for the big banks. Shares of the six largest U.S. financial institutions gained an average of 40% in 2012.

The events and policies that have pushed deficits to these high levels in the near term, however, were largely outside the new Administration’s control. If not for the tax cuts enacted during the presidency of George W. Bush that Congress did not pay for, the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that were initiated during that period, and the effects of the worst economic slump since the Great Depression (including the cost of steps necessary to combat it), we would not be facing these huge deficits in the near term.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor on Wednesday vowed to hold a vote next week to repeal Obamacare in full. The move is largely political theater but it allows opponents of the law-- especially freshman lawmakers-- to publicly record their opposition.
Republicans have held dozens of votes to repeal all or part of the president's health care law since it passed in 2010 but have been unsuccessful. Even if a repeal passed the House, the effort would die in the Democratic-controlled Senate.