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Only half of the Republicans voted for it , and all of the Democrats voted for it. Governor Bush didn't want to expand GI benefits. Neither did McBush (McCain). Democrats just played hardball and made Bush sign it. Have no illusions, this only passed because the Democrats took back...

you can thank the democrats for it.

5 sources, and you couldn't even get the vote right. It was 58-40. And it was a jet that the US had enough according to the DoD. The only reason it was difficult to get the votes was because of the military-industrial complex.

F-22 production is rolled back. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/21/senate-beats-back-militar_n_242135.html The Senate, by a vote of 58-40, approved an amendment proposed by Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) to strip $1.75 billion in funding for the F-22 fighter...

Maybe they read the Free Republic, and thought it was USKKA.

No way, you can't re-write history. I recall he expanded Medicare and doubled the size of the Department of Education in his first term, And he was re-elected in 2004. His approval ratings went south when the country saw his incompetence in Hurricane Katrina and Iraq, and when he tried to push...

When Governor Bush of Texas pushed through TARP, where in the Constitution was that authorized?

Something I said? Good for me, I got a screenshot of the word "zaphod" and "super moderator" I wonder what the Admissions Site thinks about this kind of character.

I wonder if the Admissions website for the Service Academy Forums. no about this site, or about the political bent of some people with the 'moderator label" who are spewing their anti-American and right-wing agenda. Looks like I need to fire off a few e-mails.

Medicare is free???? Holy smokes. I guess that 1.45 percent that an employer and employee each make to Medicare on my payroll is an illusion... Whowouldathunkit? Must be a gubmint conspiracy!

Ya, that's why Medicare is so unpopular?

A deficit is your current account balance for a year. National Debt is the total the US owes for a year. Either way, that 11.5 trillion number isn't Obama's problem, you can chalk that up to the Republicans.

Where'd you get that number, 11.5 trillion dollar deficit?

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Sorry, PIMA your original post was flawed. The Walter Reed fiasco had to do with parts of the hospital that were privatized and ended up screwing things up for soldiers. Replace soldiers with America, and you've summed up the Bush legacy. Elections have consequences.:shake:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/8090422.stm http://news.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/World/Story/A1Story20090609-147196.html It's a good thing they replaced the leadership of the American military in command in Afghanistan. Someone needs to clean up these recurring messes.

If you can't stand the heat, get out the kitchen, chump

i SKIPPED OVER the steele comment because a bright person would see how dumb it is. 1. It was a vote among party insiders, not the broad conservative republican electorate 2, The angry conservatives like limbaugh have harassed steele, at one point Limbaugh told him to resign. 3. The...

Waiting for empirical evidence that CRA loans are the cause of the crisis.... I was alerted to this site by a friend who was noticing a lot of the hate, anti-Obama rhetoric spewing from a site that was supposed to discuss military academies. (The Commander in Chief). Are the admissions...

And right on time, Luigi comes in time to parrot the talking points of the Limbaugh-angry white man conservative AXIS. Translation : The Democrats gave loans to the poor people, especially those poor non-white folks, who destroyed America. Except there is zero empirical evidence to prove it...