My "Hopey-Changey Thingy" is working!

[Uben]

Dear Republicans-

Thank you for asking how my hopey-changey thingy is going. Since your party left us with impending financial disaster, a 10% unemployment figure, two wars to finance, the burden of giving the uber-rich tax cuts, and a healthcare system that was running rampant, things seem to be looking up! We are on schedule to remove troops from Iraq next year, we have avoided financial collapse (thanks Obama), the tax cuts will soon expire, and we have already reformed the healthcare system! All in just over a year!

So, I would proclaim it's going great!

How's that "Say no to everything" working for ya? Not quite as good as the "hopey-changey thingy", huh? Dadburn the luck! May I suggest your party come up with your own "hopey-changey thingy"? Sitting back and doing nothing hasn't faired well for your party the eight years they were in control. You lost the senate, the house, and the presidency!

Hopey-Changey seems to be a bit better than the "Wishy-Washy Failure Thingy" you laid on us. Good luck, and I hope you take advantage of all those socialistic government programs you hate so much...you know, police protection, fire depts, military, postal services, etc.

Don't worry, Obama's got this!

[Cary]

1. You rock Uben.

Big thumbs up. ;)

[djp2]

25. What about corporate taxes?

We need to get those horrible taxes under control lets see...MSN Money states that....
http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/Taxes/P80242.asp

"Most companies paid no taxes during the boom" and "In 2000 alone, 94% of all U.S. corporations paid less than 5% of their total income in corporate taxes, the GAO said in a report released Friday. Among the largest corporations -- the 1% of all corporations that owns 93% of all corporate assets -- 82% paid less than 5% of their income in taxes."

While Caterpillar Corp. is complaining that the new Heath benefits will cost the company $100 million a year while making ONLY $900 million in profits. Senator Bernie Sanders today said on The Thom Hartmann Radio Show that corpotate America is SITTING on $1.5 tillion in CASH assets as we speak!

[bjobotts]

30. Better than Palin leaving Wasilla in quadruple the debt before she became mayor

[bjobotts]

31. And much better than leaving Alaska as the highest indebt state in America before quitting

[bjobotts]

32. Sounds like Alaska needs alot of hopey changey to get over the wreck she left it in

[bjobotts]

33. Same way her stupidity and hate filled politics would wreck America if she got the chance

[bjobotts]

34. Maybe she can treat the teaparty like kindergardeners but the rest of us have brains

[Skidmore]

2. Uben, send that as a LTTE to your newspaper and let us

know when it is printed.

[Uben]

6. I live in republican hell!

You have to have a blood thumbprint of Ronald Reagan as a stamp of approval to get anything published in our local paper! I have had it out with the editor a couple of times in the past, so I'm sure he just tosses my stuff in the trash.

[Jane Austin]

12. Our paper publishes LTTE from other cities - even other states.

I don't know why, but they do.

Send it to the nearest city's paper that might publish it.

[NewJeffCT]

44. delete

delete

[oregondemoc]

3. "your party left us with a 10% unemployment figure"

Unemployment was bad. but was it 10%?

[panader0]

5. Much higher than 10%

Many of the unemployed don't even report their unemployment, like me, as I am not entitled to benefits. Self-employed or underemployed people make the real figure closer to 20%.
Welcome to DU. Have fun!

[jproductivo]

9. Can you help me convert 9.7% to the other methodology?

that is, the methodology that includes the self-employed, etc.? Is there a formula?

[DollyM]

28. 15 percent here!

In the county in which I live, the stats just came out today that our unemployment rate has hit 15 percent. As a person who has been trying to find a full time job for a very long time, I can attest to that! And since I am not receiving unemployment, I don't even count in those statistics.

[sandnsea]

11. 7.6% and soaring.

Completely due to deregulation of banks.

[HuckleB]

23. Yes, it went there. And that was the GOP's fault.

Not the fault of the new President or the new Congress.

[NewJeffCT]

45. Obama's 1st budget didn't go into effect until Oct. 1, 2009

So, what took place before that was mostly the responsibility of Team Bush. Though, the watered-down stimulus package did help prevent unemployment figures from reaching 11/12%

[dalaigh lllama]

4. I'd call their schtick the "Dopey-Nopey" thing.

hehe

[stanwyck]

13. Good one. n/t

[JuniperLea]

15. Love it!

:rofl:

[verges]

46. I like: Dopey-Crazy. nt

[dalaigh lllama]

51. Or Nopey-Crazy

Like to keep that "party of no" thang in it.

[NJmaverick]

7. K&R

[Bryn]

8. Love it!

:fistbump:

[bahrbearian]

10. Nothing wrong with the "Looser , Quiter thing" $$$$$$$

[Rage Inc.]

14. K&R

Youbetcha! :fistbump:

[DesertFlower]

16. you should post this on

Conservative Underground.

[Uben]

17. Haven't been there.....

.....but, you or anyone else, as always, should feel free to repost anything I write. I don't need to be credited, either. Most of my posts are just spontaneous thoughts that morph into whatever. Mostly junk, but even a blind hog finds an acorn every now and again!

[wes_ben]

18. May I have your permission to post...

this to my facebook page? You've summed it up nicely.

[Uben]

19. Of course

The more people that hear it, the better!

[Uben]

20. delete

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[TexasProgressive]

21. That "Rogue-y Maverick-y" Thing

How did that work out for McCain and Palin?

Funny isn't it? She's the one that started this "hopey changey" crap.

[bjobotts]

35. Good one! Love the phrasing.

[bjobotts]

36. I'm getting robo calls'messaging that asks "are you pro-life". Hell, isn't eveybody

[bjobotts]

37. Don't know anyone who is pro-death. I am however pro-choice.

[bjobotts]

38. Can'tr kill "unborn children" because they aren't children if they were not born- idiots.

[bjobotts]

39. That would mean killing enemy soldiers is killing "unborn children" with that stupid logic.

[bjobotts]

40. btw...saying God told me to do whatever is as bad as saying satan told me to do whatever.Unbelievabl

[lonestarnot]

22. Puggsies aren't "doing nothing"!

They're running into voyeer clubs, buying wardrobes, buying fancy dinners, having drinks (can't say that I blame 'em) :evilgrin: on edit for the drinking do. :toast:

[HuckleB]

24. Hopey Changey ROCKS!

Yeah, it was a little smoother at times, and fit my particular mood perfectly at all times, but, no one is going to get that in the real world.

It's GOOD!

:fistbump: :headbang: :yourock:

[Grassy Knoll]

26. How's that " Dopey and Cheney " thing workin out for you ?

[DissedByBush]

27. Not much effective change so far

But then eight years of Bush can't be fixed in a year.

It's easier to break things than it is to fix them.

But I finally have HOPE that I will see some CHANGE.

[bridgit]

29. I hate that cadence of hers that "ho'pey chan'gey thing wurkin out for'ya" its a fake as a

$9 bill

[Left Coast2020]

41. I walked out of a store yesterday and this "moran" postal dude

had that same bumper sticker on his gas guzzling caddy. Yup. He was a mail carrier. I wanted to say something about the sticker (responding to the question), but changed my mind. He also had an Obama care funds abortions in his rear window, or some stupid shit like that. I just walked away to my car. Not productive to converse with someone who advertises their ignorance, or low education level.

[bridgit]

48. Boy do I hear you - isn't it a stunner just how far stupid will get you in America

For the NorCal Peeps :hi: :donut:

[TheKentuckian]

42. Mine is defective but working better than criminal nut jobs and rabid theocrats

[Hubert Flottz]

43. My "Hopey Changey Thingy" works great...

I push the button on it every time Sarah comes on my TV.

[SemperEadem]

47. their theme song should be that winehouse song about

not going to rehab--no no no.. sounds about their speed.

[Deep13]

49. No one who is a Christian has any business ridiculing hope or the hope for change.

I find Palin's remark to be hypocritical. Whether one is Fundamentalist, authoritarian or liberal Christian, that religion is founded on hope for the future and the expectation of what believers consider positive change. This is just another example of R.s cynically using the misfortune of others to raise money for their party.

Let's see, what has that hopey-changy thing done for us?

Ended the chance of a 1930's type depression. Paved roads, built bridges and funded many worthy projects.

Ended America's status as a pariah state.

Significantly extended health insurance.

Significantly reduced the threat of being vaporized by Russian nukes.

Imposed fuel efficiency standards as a step to fight global warming.

Reduced most people's taxes.

Sotomayor

Ended the active war in Iraq

Stopped breaking Federal and international law by torturing people.

[Turbineguy]

50. That hopey changey thingy

is workin' well for Sarah Palin too. She's gettin' 100 grand per gig for talkin' to deluded teabaggers instead of bein' veep in a country with a totally collapsed economy.