Now what, USA?

The repubs did very well but lost this battle, but that is not the takaway here. Smart people will take note that the increasing polorization of this nation ...

Michelle Obama 2016!

hawkeye10 wrote:

The repubs did very well but lost this battle, but that is not the takaway here. Smart people will take note that the increasing polorization of this nation ...

Romney appears to have won the popular vote.

“I extend my sincere congratulations to President Obama and Vice President Biden on their hard-fought victory, and I would like to thank Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan for running a great campaign based on concrete solutions to the tremendous economic challenges we continue to face. The American people did two things: they gave President Obama a second chance to fix the problems that even he admits he failed to solve during his first four years in office, and they preserved Republican control of the House of Representatives. The voters have not endorsed the failures or excesses of the President’s first term, they have simply given him more time to finish the job they asked him to do together with a Congress that restored balance to Washington after two years of one-party control. Now it’s time for the President to propose solutions that actually have a chance of passing the Republican-controlled House of Representatives and a closely-divided Senate, step up to the plate on the challenges of the moment, and deliver in a way that he did not in his first four years in office. To the extent he wants to move to the political center, which is where the work gets done in a divided government, we’ll be there to meet him half way. That begins by proposing a way for both parties to work together in avoiding the ‘fiscal cliff’ without harming a weak and fragile economy, and when that is behind us work with us to reform the tax code and our broken entitlement system. Republicans are eager to hear the President’s proposals on these and many other pressing issues going forward and to do the work the people sent us here to do.”

hawkeye10 wrote:

The repubs did very well but lost this battle, but that is not the takaway here. Smart people will take note that the increasing polorization of this nation ...

Romney appears to have won the popular vote.

A disturbance broke out on the University of Mississippi's campus early Wednesday, after students angry at the reelection of president Barack Obama took to the streets to vent their displeasure. Story and video

Mitch McConnell doubles down

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“I extend my sincere congratulations to President Obama and Vice President Biden on their hard-fought victory, and I would like to thank Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan for running a great campaign based on concrete solutions to the tremendous economic challenges we continue to face. The American people did two things: they gave President Obama a second chance to fix the problems that even he admits he failed to solve during his first four years in office, and they preserved Republican control of the House of Representatives. The voters have not endorsed the failures or excesses of the President’s first term, they have simply given him more time to finish the job they asked him to do together with a Congress that restored balance to Washington after two years of one-party control. Now it’s time for the President to propose solutions that actually have a chance of passing the Republican-controlled House of Representatives and a closely-divided Senate, step up to the plate on the challenges of the moment, and deliver in a way that he did not in his first four years in office. To the extent he wants to move to the political center, which is where the work gets done in a divided government, we’ll be there to meet him half way. That begins by proposing a way for both parties to work together in avoiding the ‘fiscal cliff’ without harming a weak and fragile economy, and when that is behind us work with us to reform the tax code and our broken entitlement system. Republicans are eager to hear the President’s proposals on these and many other pressing issues going forward and to do the work the people sent us here to do.”

All he has too do is sit on his hands and let the Bush tax cuts for the rich lapse. And if you all would bother checking facts you would see that he won by about 3 million votes. Its about time the citizens started paying for their government rather than charging it to our kids.

The repubs did very well but lost this battle, but that is not the takaway here.
Smart people will take note that the increasing polorization of this nation ...

Romney appears to have won the popular vote.

All he has too do is sit on his hands and let the Bush tax cuts for the rich lapse.

RABEL222 wrote:

All he has too do is sit on his hands and let the Bush tax cuts for the rich lapse.

Oh my! Guess you don't know who's building most of the new Medical Schools in the US, to the tune of $45 million a pop. It surely isn't the little guy making $38,000/year.

Let the tax cuts lapse, and what do you suppose will happen to the endowments to the Arts and Sciences? Down the well-known tube.

AUSTIN -- At Austin's historic Driskill Hotel, state and local Democrats cheered the president's reelection. For State Senator Kirk Watson (D-Austin), there was an additional item to cheer: Travis County voters Tuesday elected to pass Central Health Prop 1.

The proposal called for a 5-cent tax rate increase, roughly an additional $100 a year for the average Austin homeowner, in order to purchase health care services to support a new teaching hospital and medical school at the University of Texas.