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It's sad how many babies are on this site whining about bush all day. he has been far from perfect, far, but lets not blame him for everyhting. god forbid we put a little blame on ourselves and our neighbors for the problems that we are facing as americans. what a sorry bunch of finger-pointing babies.

Look, the dirty way the Democrats have trashed Bush in front of the world, he does not owe them anything, not one thing.

Bob, the last time I looked, the oil prices are based on the world market, not the President.

Ca Native, you are a sad, sorry little man (or woman).

The Democratic-controlled Congress can't get anything done because the Repubs and dubya continuously block them. Whenever the Dems try to pass a good piece of legislation (like SCHIP), dubya vetoes it because the Dems don't have a large enough majority to override the veto. The fact is that dubya and his Repub puppets don't want the Dems to accomplish anything because they don't want the Dems to be able to claim progress going into an election year.

I know it's easier to spew the same old White House-issued rhetoric about a do-nothing Congress than it is to actually think for yourself, but try it. They are sacrificing the needs of the American people for the sake of politics!

If I were Bush, I would take a walk in the park and admire the treasures, nature has offered us human beings. God has miraculous ways to communicate with sons of Adam. In the beauty of nature he may offer some comfort and give us a salavation, you never know.

It not to every mere mortal on this earth, that God offers splendours of White House.

Changing and directing life of mere mortals is a work that is best left to angels of corporate empires.

Candidates who attacked tax cuts for creating deficits, conveniently forget those deficits when pushing their own in an election year. -> Hillary Clinton.

Candidates who attacked quick fixes for long-term economic ills have no trouble handing out $250 tax credits to get folks spending. -> Barack Obama.

And candidates who voted against tax cuts because they were a bad idea, even in a slowing economy, have not a lick of concern proposing much the same tax cuts years later... in a slowing economy. -> John McCain.

Conclusion:
Politicians will do anything to get votes...

Our pitifully partisian 110th do nothing liberal Congress has already shown us their best. God help us..

How about all you cowards, above, give your rebate back!
Your so brave calling the Presidents all kinds of names,
Your all a bunch of cowards, there is no substance to
your argument, only name calling. Go back to school and
get an education.

Let's situmlate the economy with a infusion of cash. But Geroge what killed the economic growth to begin with? What, what was that, oh yes , the high cost of energy, what, was that, you tryed to fix it with the Saudi's and when was that George, you have not listened to anyone for 8 years and now we are suppose to thank you for trying to take action on a situation a blind man saw coming years ago. Amazing, 12 more months god I can not wait to be a year older this year.

JT – didn't Bush run in the 2000 election on "How the Clinton tax cuts may have destroyed the economy" –

Now he is electing to support tax cuts – You can stick your head in the ground as long you as wish. When it all comes to an end, and you pull your head from the ground you may just find that your support and your party destroyed the very fabric of our existence.

Remeber History repeats itself, Rep. start wars and create debt, everyone else cleans it up while the Rep. sit around enjoying the money they stole from America and it's people. I am still wondering what GW did what that 30 million from Bin-Ladens brother in the early 90's – what do you think that was for? Lets give George 30 Million and he doesn't have to pay it back. Seems a little fishy, you should watch who you support, you may be the one left holding the bag when they are out of office.

I've never heard a lame duck quack so loud..

Ha Ha!!

Let me get this straight, the government is going to give me back some of my tax dollars. I already paid taxes on once, so I have to claim the rebate as income to be taxed again. Double taxation? This could turn out to be just enough to throw me into the next tax bracket, thus costing me more in the long run. How many of you have recieved a pay raise, only to bring home less then your were? "Beware of Greeks bearing gifts." Or should I say Geeks. I will save my rebate so I can pay the taxes again. We had a surplus prior to the last rebate. We now have a major deficit. Where is this money going to come from? If I have to borrow money from someone, how can I turn around and loan it to someone else? Doesn't sound like good judgement to me. Unless the person I loaned it to turns around and buys from me, thus helping me, while they still owe me. Convoluted, you bet!

Economic stimulus package? Our economy is tanking because Americans are losing jobs and inflation is eating up their disposable incomes. These stimulis packages address either. Bernanke could lower interest rate again at the risk of inflation getting completely out of control. Think of the economy as a swimming pool, if you take water out of the deep end with a bucket and dump it in the shallow end, it doesn't make the pool any deeper. All that really does is give the Bushies power base, corporate, and foreign interest a pat on the back. Our country is basically a clearance sale right now for foreign interests. Good bye middle class, as for the bottom of the barrel, well I hope you like cat food. The globalists knew this would happen and it is happening by design. Read the FBI's twenty year estimate on globalization and it's effect on the American economy. There will be clear winners and losers, the lower class will be hit hardest, and many Americans will be radicalized, violence and protest will be unavoidable as resources dwindle and inflation makes necessities unaffordable. They have planned for these contingencies, that is why our police and national guards look like de-facto military, because they are. Their police state control apparatus can break up even large scale civil unrest, and they know it. They have sound weapons that can rupture a man's eardrums at a hundred yards. Don't worry their protecting us from the terrorists remember?

No to mention we can now address real issues, like jobs and imagration, etc. Instead of looking for answers to questions that are already answered.

Go to Jail until you pay? I am for a flat tax, however "Go to jail until you pay" is the same law that already doesn't work in State Child Support issues. Don't pay your support, go to jail – where is the common sense in that. How will pay your taxes if you are locked up? Collect cans from the prison yard. It's the same backwards sense that says suspend someones drivers license for not paying. How will they get to work?

Jails are for real criminals, how about this the cost to Jail someone for not paying taxes would be as much as the taxes. So you are locking them up – so they cannot earn any money to pay taxes and then you are paying to put them up with 3 squares a day. While I respect your idea and agree in principal, jailing people for not paying taxes is just silly and would lend to a large volume of overcrowding, mixing axe murders with factory workers who missed their tax filing deadline.

Now if you open to both changing the tax system and eliminating the burden in our prisons; I have a win-win for all of us.

Let us create your 8% flat tax, and eliminate the IRS (no auditors) and simply take the 8% from Americans pay and thats that. In addition, bring our boys and girls home from Iraq and replace them with Violent Criminals from our many over crowded prisons. I have been told by many service men, their orders are to kill anything that moves when they are over in Iraq. Why not give the job free of charge to people who have shown already they have no moral compass.

This would eliminate the war as an issue, no one cares about prisoners. The prisoners have a chance to redeem themselves, although they would not be permitted back in the US hence removing a portion of our bad eliment. Taxes would be settled, the tax burden to the governement would be reduced by the removal of the prisoners from the system and the return of all our military personel hence eliminating the $500,000.00 per minute cost of this war.

Americans pay less taxes – Cost to run prisons goes down – war is less costly and safer for the future of America; our childrem.

Bush will deliver his annual agenda-shaping State of the Union speech this month.
It is fun to watch Kennedy, Biden and the other Dems sit and watch and learn from Bush

The two sides may be in a bipartisan mood in 2008 with congress approval numbers lower than Bush. Oh sorry, there is another impeach Bush movement this week. The dems do not know what to do to help this country.

Bush won on the war in 2007 and will win again with the tax refund in 08.

Ca Native, you are a sad, sorry little man (or woman).

The Democratic-controlled Congress can't get anything done because the Repubs and dubya continuously block them. Whenever the Dems try to pass a good piece of legislation (like SCHIP), dubya vetoes it because the Dems don't have a large enough majority to override the veto. The fact is that dubya and his Repub puppets don't want the Dems to accomplish anything because they don't want the Dems to be able to claim progress going into an election year.

I know it's easier to spew the same old White House-issued rhetoric about a do-nothing Congress than it is to actually think for yourself, but try it. They are sacrificing the needs of the American people for the sake of politics!

Looks like George Bush is leaving yet another debacle in his wake. Too bad this one affects the whole country.

Yes, by all means lets extend the tax cuts and continue the economic policy that has got us into this mess. I mean does anyone take this guy seriously anymore? 6.2% inflation last year? Did anyone get that type of raise last year?

Let's see:

1. Lower the tax rate for corporations so that their profits increase and then they can provide a dividend to shareholders thus benefiting only those with enough money nowadays to actually invest.

or

2. Provide a tax cut or rebate to actual families who will then take that money and spend it at the store thus increasing the sales traffic of said corporations who then in turn have to hire more people, etc.

Seems I like the Dems idea better.

Hey George.., here's a great idea to stimulate the economy. Disband the IRS, and create the "flat tax". Let's say.., 8% state and federal income tax on every american's gross pay.., and those who don't pay – go to jail (no bond until they pay). Oh – and no auditors either – just collectors.

CNN,,, dont let comic stip characters get posted

Just another story to show how hillary is defiant of bush policy,,, trouble is she would have no problem asking the same thing and will ,, If she is elected

It doesn't matter what Bush says either way because there will be no true bipartisanship. True Bipartisanship would actually have to include more of the moderate and conservative Republicans and not just the most liberal Republicans like McCain who have no problem putting there name on crap to get some recognition.

Of course this article just goes to show you that the Democrats ignore the fact that there is quite a bit that Bernanke can do to address the situation with or without their approval of his actions.

This economic melt-down is not going to go away because of an irresponsible game of fiscal Three Card Monty. Maybe Chinese and UAE superfund investors are faintly interested, but the only use I have of these schemes is the entertainment value from a President explaining how it's good for me. That being said, reducing interest rates and taxes on industry will only go to those responsible for Illegal Immigration, Predatory Mortgage Loans, Lost Manufacturing Base and High Energy Prices.

The real fix here is for the President (through the Federal Government) to go into these business operations and enforce the laws. They have had enough time being coddled and rewarded; let's see some action – Martha Stewart style perp walks and long prison sentences.

Why don't you all just resign? White House, Congress,Courts, Pentagon, Federal Agencies,Press.. pretty much the whole bunch. You seem pretty well worthless to us here in the West. There is not one singular domestic or foreign situation, that you haven't gotten so messed up , they may well be impossible for any subsequent generations to fix! Job security for Ivy leaguers maybe? That would be the best economic incentive since the revolution. Keep up the great work.
And this new bunch that wants in the White house is just the same old sad story. If the rest of us were so inept and morally challenged we'd be unemployed or in jail.

Stop with the tax breaks for the rich and the corporations!! see thats all republicans like bush care about.

how about tax breaks for individuals making under 50k. they are the ones who shop at wal mart and pump money into the economy.

W – what an incompetent disgrace

Let's see – he's given us $3.00 + gas, a war to bring democracy to a tribal area that has been in conflict for 3000 years (and now he says we should expect to be in Iraq for up to 50 years like South Korea), a human and economic disaster in New Orleans, he has damaged our alliances and at the same time caused our enemies to unite, Spent all of the surplus, given us deficits as far as the eye can see, divided us as a country more than ever, commuted the sentence of his vice presidents chief of staff for outing a CIA operative (whose husband correctly pointed out that there were no WMD's in Iraq), and still not found Bin Laden, he introduced testing for all students in schools (including special ed. students who cannot talk dragging down the schools scores), he requires that researchers studying everything from Global warming to education curriculum site only studies that agree with his beliefs, and now he has given us a recession which will increase the deficit and damage many people's 401k (at least the dems did not allow social security to invest in the stock markets) but as the decider in chief won't work with the congress to come up with a way to solve this crisis (like we feel great about his judgement). Like the great humanitarian Newt Gingrich said in 2006 America – Had Enough?

The only reason Bush even gives a crap is, it now looks like he'll leave the economy in a recession, besides it already being highly stacked against the middle and lower class.

Watch: see how many of Bush's suggestion for stimulus go to rich boy crap like a lower tax on dividends and investments.

Read OUR Lips: Relief for, and solely for, the MIDDLE and LOWER classes in America.

The rich can sit back and count their money this time. Dubya Warbucks has already richly rewarded rich people beyond sanity. Also, ZERO money – none – of the stimulus going to the corporations, especially oil corporations, responsible along with President Enabler in destroying the powerful economy and budget SURPLUS Bill Clinton gift-wrapped for the Republicans.

I better never hear again how DEMOCRATS are the big spenders. The most irresponsible economic losers in history, the ones who've caused such unbelievable debt for anyone – and folks, they don't even figure in the costs of this illegal Iraqi war – is this criminal administration and its spineless party in Congress.

We and our kids'll be paying this useless nightmare for decades, not to mention trying to restore the freedoms urinated away by the rich, corporate and authoritarian under this Worst. President. Ever. and his Goebbels clone, Cheney the Thug.

sluggo. very true statement. they've nixed the last dozen or so I have submitted due to not being overly supportive of their Democrat/French-Canadian financiers.

Ca native....your are SOOOOOO impecably, precisely spot on correct...could NOT have put it better myself...since AMERICANS have ben successful lately in protecting the Iraqi people from the left's terrorist buddies, they can't crow about all the death and destruction the encourage and promote there..so..now their leftist/foreign French/Canadian owned media (Vicendi Universal et al) have decided that this PEACE thing just won't do...it doesn't leave them something to point fingers at..what? a success in Iraq??? NO MORE IRAQ REPORTING NOW DARNIT ALL!!! SO we must now CREATE a financial crisis using our foreign owned media to make everyone SELL SELL SELL at every "news report" we peddle to them to dribe the markets down so we can now have a NEW "crisis" to point fingers at...THE ECONOMY *that us LEFTISTS just forced to tank and cost MANY AMERICANS OF ALL RACES RELIGIONS COLORS GENDERS AGE AND POLITICAL STRIPE's savings/investment accounts..saving for that home? Retirement? Thanks French/Canadian owned/operated Democrat Partiquais...it's going to be a LONG time now for us REGULAR WORKING CLASS AMERICANS to build those accounts back up...THANKS FOR YOU FEAR MONGORING TO WIN AN ELECTION DEMOCRATS ...freaks. You cut OUR noses off to spite the Republican's face...how THOUGHTFUL of you "enlightened/progressive" freaks of nature. At least GWB is trying to help fix the problem that Pelosi/Clinton et al caused.

Well, what else is new with Bush. Maybe the govt should let the market fix itself, it might teach greedy capitalists on Wall Street to be less greedy. The bonuses in the millions keep getting handed out, only the investors are paying for the mess. What is their next greedy ploy: oil at $200, gold at $2000, other commodities at record prices.

I do hope the peace road map leads to a Palestinian state and to the inception of an end to violence.

CNN moderators don't let conservative comments get posted.

Thank goodness GW is limited to 2 terms in office. Now he finally sees the light and wants to stimulate the economy when for so long he and his inept aides turned a blind eye to it. He has been a disaster as the leader of our country and we do need change! Unfortunately, no matter who becomes the next President, an equally inept Congress will still be there to tackle such pressing issues like steroids in baseball rather than the economy, social security reform, unprotected borders, etc. Good luck to the next President trying to change things.

This is a horrible idea. The government is going to get Americans to spend more causing inflation to get out of control, all to stop a recession from coming which is probably already here and is a natural part of the business cycle anyways. Recessions from time to time are healthy because it keeps the economy from getting ahead of itself. Unfortunately now the Repubs are joining the Dems in offering free goverment handouts to celebrate election season! Glad to see Congress and the President have the country's best interest at heart........

Worse. President. Ever.

His policies have managed to build up an economic disaster and leaving yet another massive problem for the next administration to clean up.

In my litle corner of the World we used to think Terror was the Hell's Angels coming to town. Everyone gathered their children, ran for home, locked their doors, and drew their shades. All stayed put untill they heard the sound of Harleys heading out of town. .

Since George Bush took office, sent our military to Afghanistan and our Royal Canadian Mounted Police forces are busy securing our borders on horse back, we welcome the Hell's Angels and even gave them a meeting place free of charge. The city is trying to pass a bill for ski doo funding so we can entice the Angles to stay year round.

Bob,Roxboro,NC....................Dont pick on Ca.................thats 1 of the folks Reagan let out of the nut house in the 80s to make the government SMALLER and less costly.lol

Could George Bush be starting to panic over the state of the Union?

Who is going to pay for this "stimulus package"?

When does our idiotic addiction to debt end?

We are not being good stewards of our nation for our children.

he is the absolute worst president in US history. hopefully hell get a presidential library in baghdad!

I can't believe you guys are still listening to him. He's Old news.

Bush won on the war and the dems can not do anything but sit back and watch the genius of Bush (without Rove).
I am ready to laugh out loud when Bush gives the dems another lesson at the state of the union speech in a few weeks. Funny as heck watching Kennedy, Edwards, Biden and the others get another lecture from someone with higher intellect and better political skills.
This congress would rather sit around and cry and complain all day and all year like in 2007. Expect Bush to get most of what he wants in 2008 just like in 2007.

Bob, Roxboro, N. C. Your commens are about the best anyone could expect coming from someone from your part of the country. After all you people need democrats because they are the champions of welfare handouts. And, wiohout welfare you would disappear.

AT LEAST BUSH IS TRYING TO PROTECT AMERICA !!!!!!!!!!
SOCIAL LIBS DUMMYCRATS WANT PEACE TALKS-WHAT A JOKE!!!
TEA AND CRUMPETS?

PULEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZE Who here is surprised???????? Honestly.

I just read a piece about Bush pushing for even more trade deals with Colombia and S. Korea.

As I've said before, Bush is determined to wreak as much havok as he possibly can against the lower and middle class in his remaining time in office.

America's leading export -– Our jobs!

This man listens to no one!

LOL....George Bush...who?

Based on the past performances this past year of the democratic house and senate I visualize Bush giving Haliburton and the Texas oil comrades a huge bonus that will later be divided with Cheney and Bush While Pelosi and Reid rant and rave before the TV cameras while allowing the screws to be put to the American public once again. As an always voting Democrat all my life I have never seen such an incompetent congress as this one. We would be better off as a minority . Then the cause of this collapse of the American economy will be obviously contrived by the hate mongering right wingers that are only interested in the wealthy and dodging war service. This most disgraceful administration i have lived under in my 78 Years. Hopefully I will live till the end of this circus.

If i recall correctly, there was a $300 rebate check for everyone then there was a $300 rebate for people with children only. Either way, nothing could be more welcome to Americans than a quick $300 in the mail. Let's let Congress have to make do with less of our tax money this year!

To Ca Native,
What planet do you live on? The Dems will NEVER get anything done because it won't happen as long as GW is in the White House. He has always done things his way or no way even when the Republicans controlled the Hill. Why would he change now? He can't run again and does not care3 about anyone but hinself and our invicible Vice president Cheney. Bush , Cheney and the Republicans are already getting blamed for the economic problems we are in. The Republicans are well on their way to being toast in 2008 and they know it.. I predict it won't matter who the Democrats nominate. They will win. Everything is sky high and people are hurting. George and his bunch could care less about working people.
PS–Iowa will be a Blue State again in 2008.. along with alot of others states. that have not been in sometime.

The US dollar has dropped like a rock and the national debt is at scary levels as we're short a billion or two per day. Trying to find $1.5 billion (more debt) to "stimulate the economy" is backwards. The economy is strong when the government gets out of the way by balancing the budget; going farther into debt will make things worse, not better. Look at any national economy in the modern world: countries are prosperous when their government is only spending what it has.

This should be easy for the Prez and congress to get passed. Look at Obama's plan, pass it and leave out the partisan stuff from Clinton and the congressional republicans.

CA Native; Are you on something? Bush is going to go down as the worst leader in the history of America. Yet Bill could sit around the office; get a hummer, sign a bill into law and have a 2 hour conversation with a senator about how he was saving our economy and eliminating the deficit for the first time in US history. Bill saved this country while he suffered through Rep. attacks, impeachment for nothing and whatever else goes with being President.

The bottom line; GW is a sorry example of leadership, and a perfect example of what happens to a country run by corporations, lobbyist and terroist.

Take a look at GW's history of Cocaine, Alchohol and failure, attached that to his monetary connection with millions of terroist dollars as a Texas oil failure. And then just realize for a moment ........... that you voted for the worst President in the history of the US. The President who 20 years from now may be talked about as the Leader who single handedly caused the end of the United States of America as we know it. Remember the Romans? History repeats itself.

This is not a game, this is life and my life has never been worse since this man came into office. You should be afraid for your children, think for a second past yourself and realize that your children and mine will be paying for YOUR mistake for as long as they live. Just like we did for our parents mistakes.

You voted for him, Thats a hell of a legacy for you to hold on to.

Don't post anymore comments until you learn think freely for yourself.

Ca Native:

Looks like you're a lonely guy / gal. Yours is the only post which even ineptly defends this tyrannical fascist.

We Americans have foolishly allowed the Bush administration to rob us of more freedom and privacy than Bin Laden and the entire terrorist network combined!

the democratic leadership is dumber than bush. they pleaded with bush? why oh why on earth?

why don't they just spell out their own ideas in public and thereby put bush on the spot?????? just in case he agrees and takes the credit? so as to blame bush in case the ideas fail to resuscitate the economy? do they have any ideas of their own?

either the dems are all in it together with bush, or they are cowardly idiots. how so completely disgusting.

$10 says the dems try to include a timetable for withdrawl from Iraq and a Rider that criticizes one of our middle eastern allies for something they did over a hundred years ago

Screw the democrats. They had the first 100 hours they took office to get ths ball rolling but they wanted to obstruct the President and rename Post Offices first. I'll be glad when they get voted out of power this year.

Any CEO who ran a company into the ground the way this guy has run down this country wouldn't have a job 'til Jan 20th 09......

Will the money be borrowed from China? Japan? Abu Dubai? We must as a nation eventually pay the bills we have incurred. Do it now. Let us not leave it for our children and grandchildren. Roll back the Bush tax cut as a beginning.

FINALLY, HE IS UNITING THE NATION....................................AGAINST HIMSELF!!!

Edwards in 2008! The leader who will fight for the middle class! Now if the corporate media would just cover his campaign!!

Why is Bush suddenly reversing his stand on so many things? Could it be that he's trying to save the trainwreck that is his presidency? Well, L'il Bush, the bridge is out, the boilers are pumping, the steam is up and you're still asleep at the switch. The sooner you are gone, sir, the better for America.

I think Clinton beat you to the punch about 10 days ago George. So much for the quick speech. What took so long for you and your administration to realize there is a recession already rolling in. I, along with half the posters on this web site saw it coming, but you and your couldn't?

I agree w/ Pam in OR. I have wroked my tail off since I was 18, saved religiously, and am now watching any chance of retiring at a decent age slide away as George spends his trillions on his invented war. They better do something, and quick. If they think the current public sentiment is bad, just wait and see what it is like if this continues. none of the candidates will even want to be prez at that point.

He is a incompetent lackey who has to wait for hillary to come up with something and so does obama;And so does the rest of the democratic and republican party's

Awwww... poor Democrats didn't want the President to announce he was pushing for a stimulus package?? Gee.. and the Democrats have been SO respectful haven't they?

Constantly beating the Impeach W war-drum
Ridiculing him from the campaign trail
Pursuing Contempt of Congress Citations against his staff
etc , etc , etc

The FACT is ... this Democrat-lead Congress can't get ANYTHING done. They have a lower approval rating than President Bush. He NEEDS to use the bully pulpit to get Congress moving. Otherwise... the democrats would happily let the economy faulter during an election year... and blame the President.

if you look under stupid in the dictionary you will see this mans face, my god cant they just stop quoting him ? maby get someone that makes use of a bipartison request , to enhance a stimulus package, that is well to late!! oh i forgot, this is gw at his best making decisions that effect every aspect of the american way of life,which he thinks he has all the ansers,roflol, i would suggest the best thing to do is remove yourself and your administration that would benefit the country as a whole much more than you speaking, at least as far as party favors and such, i would assume that oscar meyer-budwieser-frito-lay and hallmark invatations for a party would see an overwhelming rise in gross sales,

For eight years, Congress has abdicated their Constitutional power and responsibility. Now that President Bush is a "lame duck" he's got nothing to lose by presenting ideas for legislation – and Congress doesn't like that, because it shows them off as the truly lame branch of government. Somewhere along the way the public has been convinced that the Office of the President somehow controls everything in our government, and they're just plain wrong. If Harry Reid and the Congress don't want to be shown up as the 'do-nothings' that they are, then maybe they should get off their arses and do something. Afterall, that IS their job!

The stock market dropped another 300+points today. I do not care if the Democrats or Republicans get the credit for this. Just don't bicker while I watch my retirement go down the drain. We need something and we need it fast. I am a democrat who will be very unhappy with my party if you hold this up for partisan gain.
Work together and get it done now!
Obama/Edwards 08

This man is totally confused. With less than a year left I'm afraid he's so determined to make a name for himself that he's broken free of his trainers. I'm not certain he's listening to outside advice any longer.

Therealist-

Apparently you forgot that we have legislative branch of government that is designed to serve as checks and balance to the administrative branch. They aren't there to rubber stamp the will of a dictator.

While I do have criticisms about how Congress has failed (for the past 14 years) to get beyond ideology in order to actually effectively run a country, they have no obligation to interpret "cooperation" as "subjugation" to the president.

Ain't it just like Dubya. As usual the "decider" is saying, "I'll listen to what you have to say but I've already made up my mind so you can't argue with me using the facts"...

They are going to fix what they smucked up? Can't wait to get my $250 back.

How does DC "stimulate" the economy?

Racketeering, most likely.

Consider this: nearly 33% of the federal budget is spent on our national debt. That consumes a majority of income taxes. The reason we borrowed the money: to pay for needless wars and weapons. Look at Reagan's defense spending – I mean, I guess we could sell all the nukes, but that's going to be viewed as quite irresponsible. Nevertheless, we applaud the "cold warriors" who demanded such devices only capable of mutually assured destruction could be built.

The sub-prime mortgage bubble has burst, but let's call it what it was called when Greenspan pushed for it: a STIMULUS PACKAGE.

What about the depreciating dollar? This has been a major issue since 1971, when the ties between our dollar and gold were severed (although we should note they continually weakened since 1913). Why has our dollar declined in value? Because its value is defined by the will of politicians and big bankers. Economic stimulus = easy credit = new money = depreciating dollar.

Wonder why medical care costs so much? Ask the federal government, which became a larger payer into the healthcare industry than the entire private sector when it started medicare/caid, designed to selectively lower health care costs (to $0 for the patient, actually). Apparently, mandating care for the needy has no means of cost containment for working Americans. So...working Americans are demanding free care as well...at someone ELSE's dime.

In other words, it's your fault, American public. You keep trying to live above your means on borrowed money or someone else's dime, legitimizing it through government force. It's time to grow up. Take a small recession on the chin; it's your responsibility for living like children for the past 100 years.

The dems are made because Bush didn't accomodate them? They are getting the respect they deserve.

Nothing this monkey-in-a-suit does will make me believe him. This is the same liar that destroyed e-mails because he didn't want to be implicated in the Valerie Plame case. Now it comes to light that this administration backed-up over the backup tapes and hence all evidence has been destroyed.

This idiot and his Republican sheep are the cause for all of America's problems. Not only do we now owe the world and our money isn't worth much, countries don't even believe us anymore. I would never have thought that one president could do so much damage.

And the Republicans talk about Bill? Bill is a saint compared to this traitor.

Its his pile of DOODOO LET HIM CLEAN IT UP.

Bipartisan Spirit?? Surely you jest.., and obviously know nothing of the 110th Congress.

I don’t think we can get 10 Democrats to support it,” said one aide

In early positioning over the issue, Democrats had bluntly warned Republicans making permanent the controversial tax cuts was a non-starter and that a protracted battle over the issue could stall speedy passage of a stimulus package.

“Renewing the Bush tax cuts, which don’t expire until the end of 2010, should be off the table because they will thwart any chance of passing any stimulus,” said Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-NY, a leading Democrat on the issue.

This from the man who is the "uniter, not a divider"...

Is this guy still president? [Groan]

Well George is the "Decider" right. Whatever decision is made you can be guaranteed it will be resurrected, stamped and sealed by George.
It has never changed and never will till he leaves the White House.
Good Luck Democrats in dealing with the Man who is an Island onto
himself.

What can one expect from a Macheivellian lout like Bush? Our current president appears to be a legend in his own mind.

We had better not turn oor heads to spit. This guy has a year in office with which to do as much harm to the general population as he possibly can. Let's try and keep him from succeeding.

Can someone please lock the white house door on bush until after the economic stimulus package is implemented. We don't need bush to stop the bipartisanship right now, we need bush to sit down and shut up...

Stop acting like babies and worrying about who gets credit. Just do something!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!