Obama Signs New Stopgap Spending Bill As Budget Talks Continue

President Obama is certainly no leader on this issue and is one of the most incompetent presidents in my lifetime and I am not young. Most of my family has supported him but one by one he is losing support acorss America as people are waking up. I cannot imagine many people supporting him in 2012 though the other choices will likely be just as bad anymore.

I think the Republicans should shut down the government if they don't get their entire list of cuts, and they should not accept any tax increases. After all it has been proven that anytime the economy is messed up it is because rich people don't have enough money!
It worked out so well for them when Gingrich did the shutdown thingy to Clinton. We have seen this play before, all that has changed is the cast. We rally don't need to see it again. Another Bush, another Recession, another Democrat attacked from the start. Another midterm election victory for the right, a budget battle, a few shut downs. A reelection of the Democrat, gridlock the whole time.....etc. Finally Distingushed Gentlemen, have you NO shame whatsoever?

This is cool .First you bankrupt the country spending 8 years running a 50 billion dollar deficit, the cut all programs you don't like claiming we are too broke to fund them. Had Bush kept the Clinto era pay as you go system, not went to Iraq, and not cut taxes, we would not only still have a surplus, but we would very nearly be out of debt. That is what the hero of the right cost our nation. No right wing people minded his debt runup except McCain. They were concerned with the important issues, you know, Abortion, Flag burning, Gays, Guns...etc.
Oh yeah,and calling people like me, the American Ex prisoners of war association, Stormin Norman and others opposed to the Iraq war, unamerican. Now it's the teachers unions, NPR, tsunami warning systems, etc. The sheep graze on, but I suppose if God didn't want them sheared he wouldn't have made them sheep.

We should have not agreed to give the richest 2% tax cuts. Everyone has to tighten thir belts,most including the rich. We all have to sacrafice and especially those who have the most!
This however ,is not the agenda of the Right!
Trickel down theory has never worked and only panders to the greed of those who have!

It is the obligation and duty of Congress to manage the US budget, and yet we have senators asking for the president "to support a broad approach to solving our current budget problems,"... Come on Congress, do your job! Republicans - balancing the budget requires increasing revenues in addition to cutting spending... Democrats - spending needs to be reduced across the board, including social programs... Now really, if Congress also did their job with respect to regulating commerce and acted to reduce our significant trade deficits and creating domestic jobs, we'd increase tax revenues, wouldn't we?

So now jjjohnblack is accusing me and others of being a racist for daring not support Obama, which is hilarious considering I am hispanic and have seen racism up close against members of my own family. The only argument the left seems to have to support their flailing leader is to still use the tired worn out phony race card. It's pathetic and despicable at best. I could not care less if President Obama were green, I see nothing special about his leadership. Quite the contrary.

I hear all the time about handing debt to our chidren and grandchildren then I see people cutting benifits for state and government workers, privatizing government functions,passing laws to restrict rights of women,cutting aid to education,infracture ,food and environmental safety etc.,and all the while giving away corporate welfare.If a 4% marginal rate increase is such a bitter pill to swallow and defense spending is not able to be touched,and we can't get rising medical costs under control then there is not hope for the defficit and the middle class will be a thing of folk lore and will do more harm to your children and grandchildren than anything else.Two tax cuts and call me in the morning is not responsable government while you borrow and spend money from entitlement trust funds.Tax and spend more doesn't work either so maybe people we elect should start to find real solutions instead of rhetoric.

will someone please ask our president and anyone else in the administration WHERE IS OUR 2 TRILLION DOLLARS??????? Seems they can not account for it . We were by this admnistration that all spending would be in the open where all could see Now even the people with the book don't know where it is . Yep 50 czars and 240,000 new employees and George Soros telling him what to do ,the president can't say where the 2 trillion dollars went or is

And Mr. Boehner spent time on changing Pelosi's biodegradable cups used in congress to styrofoam cups because guess who owns the styrofoam cup company - the ceo of Koch. Will he ever get around to jobs, illegal immigration, or an energy policy?

When the defense secretary hands billions in cuts to you, you don't say no thanks Mr. Boehner. The gop's cuts are self serving. Cuts to the IRS because they were just given the resources to go after offshore accounts and so called offshore corporate headquarters. For every dollar given the IRS we get ten in return. The gop is not making cuts in the right areas at the federal or state levels - it's just more of failed policies and legislation.