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Originally posted by sjtill:
The Right grumbled about Obama but accepted (perhaps wrongly) his legitimacy as president

I seem to recall the Left having conniptions over Limbaugh's even saying he hoped Obama failed in his attempts to radically transform America.

What would they have said if he had proclaimed 'not my president' or 'resistance'.

Consistency is not their hallmark. It is as though they believe their base has zero recall, and just gushes with emotion on command, out of context.

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Originally posted by joel9507:

quote:

Originally posted by sjtill:
The Right grumbled about Obama but accepted (perhaps wrongly) his legitimacy as president

I seem to recall the Left having conniptions over Limbaugh's even saying he hoped Obama failed in his attempts to radically transform America.

What would they have said if he had proclaimed 'not my president' or 'resistance'.

Consistency is not their hallmark. It is as though they believe their base has zero recall, and just gushes with emotion on command, out of context.

And they are right.

flashguy

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Meanwhile the national debt grows, sustained by historic low interest rates that will inevitably lead to the next round of inflation. College tuition rises far beyond any other commodity in society and the quality of the education has become inversely related to the rising costs. Colleges no longer teach students how to think, for independence of thought might lead them to a difference of opinion with the propagandists masquerading as teachers.

Federal Spending Tops $3 Trillion Through May for First Time; Deficit Hits $738 Billion

(CNSNews.com) - For the first time in the history of the United States, the federal government has spent more than $3 trillion in the first eight months of the fiscal year, according to the Monthly Treasury Statement released today.

The record $3,013,541,000,000 that the federal government spent in October through May of fiscal 2019 was $181,157,920,000 more than the previous record of $2,832,383,080,000 (in constant May 2019 dollars) that the federal government spent in October through May of fiscal 2009.

Total federal tax revenues in the first eight months of fiscal 2019 hit $2,274,902,000,000, which fell $5,612,990,000 short of the record $2,280,514,990,000 (in constant May 2019 dollars) that the Treasury collected in total tax revenues in the first eight months of fiscal 2016.

Even with the second highest tax revenues ever collected in the first eight months of the fiscal year, the federal government still ran a deficit for those eight months of $738,639,000,000.

Table 3 of the Monthly Treasury Statement, which summarizes federal receipts and outlays for the current fiscal year to date, indicated the Department of Health and Human Services cost the most money, accounting for $834,346,000,000 in federal spending in the first eight months of the fiscal year. The Social Security Administration cost the second most, accounting for $730,000,000,000 in federal spending during the period.

The Department of Defense was third, accounting for $439,289,000,000 in federal spending.

The combined $1,564,346,000,000 the federal government spent on HHS and the Social Security Administration during the first eight months of the fiscal year equaled 51.9 percent of the record total of $3,013,541,000,000 in federal spending during the period.

The combined $1,564,346,000,000 spent on HHS and Social Security was 3.56 times as much as the $439,289,000,000 spent on the Defense Department.

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/a...st-time-deficit-hits

When one considers the level of corruption and competency of the US congress, it's impossible to assign it any legitimacy