Newtonian Politics of the Third Law : Why I am praying for "Conservative Judicial Activism" of the worst kind at the U. S. Supreme Court" - Nothing like a beautiful "Legislating from the bench" against the President and Congress

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Bullfighting is better when the bulls are very violent, angry, savage and charging in wrath against the bullfighter and want to kill him. Extremely intense and ardent bulls that want to murder the torero.

Nobody pays to see tame and meek bulls. Sometimes bulls go to position themselves with the hind legs against the wood of the arena circle, because they defend themselves against big cats that way ( zoological evolution of tactics in herbivores ), they are afraid of the torero. Those are miserable coward bulls that the public hates.

The same for gladiators.

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The best piquant chilli for year 2012, would be a big fight between the U. S. Supreme Court and the President.

So I pray that the U. S. Supremes uphold SB 1070, that they overturn ObamaCare and create havoc in other cases and decisions in favor of Republican Redistricting, or Republican Laws of Voter Suppression.

Newton's third law of mechanics : For every action there is a reaction, an equal force in opposition. Nothing would fire up the 10 to 12 million Latino Voters, located in Swing States, like a decision in favor of Arizona and against their relatives, friends, etc .... Something that would be clearly seen as Racist, Bigoted and filled with Hatred.

Nothing would fire up the poor and those that want to have Health Care as a decision against ObamaCare. A decision against the poor, sick, disadvantaged, old, unemployed or subemployed, etc ...

And that is the logic. We saw that with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Four Horsemen of the U. S. Supreme Court that plagued his New Deal with Opposition. Eventually FDR could change the Court and pass the New Deal Legislation in Full Force.

Vicente Duque

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There are many intelligent, respectable and admirable Conservative Intellectuals. Even today in these crazy times when the Republican Party seems to be kidnapped and abducted by madmen and enemies of the Poor, Young, Women and Minorities.

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I pray for the return of the intelligent conservatives, that have a clean heart and a clean soul, that are not pray for Racism and Hatred. We need Republican Lincolns and Eisenhowers.

I am a firm believer in Children and Youngsters.

Children are not guilty of being poor or underfed - I believe this for all countries, nations and races.

The best investment is to spend money in feeding, clothing and educating Children, even Government Money, even if their parents are irresponsible. No matter their legal or migratory status.

This investment will pay a lot in the future in earnings, profits and dividends, in creativity and invention. In Future Good People and Future Good Will.

Much of what I say for Children is true for Youngsters, even if the Young appear to be nasty or gross at certain times. Most Young People are well behaved everywhere.

I speak for all nations including the poorest nations.

Vicente Duque

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Prominent Financial Manager and Economic Analyst Morgan Housel ( The Motley Fool ) explains why President Obama, Ben Bernanke, Tim Geithner and the present Government have avoided The Worst and have done an excellent job with the Economy

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The TARP bank bailout program, the 2009 stimulus package, and the Federal Reserve's unprecedented amounts of quantitative easing (money printing) have been the right policies to avoid worse results of a bigger recession or even the start of a depression.

Comparing current job losses to the Great Depression and several other severe financial crises in European Countries and Japan, you can appreciate that the U. S. Government has done a good job of avoiding the worst results, even in the middle of irrational opposition.

The Motley Fool
To Educate, Amuse and Enrich
Why It's So Much Better Than the Great Depression
By Morgan Housel
April 24, 2012


Why It's So Much Better Than the Great Depression


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Karl Rove has Obama winning now : (IA, FL, MO, NC, SC, VA) 82 EC Votes are tossups --- (MI, NH, NV, OH, PA) 64 ECV lean Obama -- (AZ, GA, KY, SD, TN, TX) 79 ECV lean Romney - POLITICO.COM : Rove: Obama leads electoral college

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According to Karl Rove 284 Electoral College Votes ( ECVs ) are "safe" or "lean" Obama, versus 157 ECVs that are "safe" or "lean" Romney states.

Karl Rove is the "Devil" for some and the "Architect" for others. He led the swift-boating of John Kerry in year 2004 : Decorated Vietnam Hero John Kerry was presented as a coward, so that super coward George W. Bush could be elected as President. George W. Bush ducked the draft and military service in Vietnam. He evaded and dodged danger using Fortune and Connections.

POLITICO.COM
Rove: Obama leads electoral college
By BYRON TAU
April 26, 2012

Rove: Obama leads electoral college


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Florida Senator Marco Rubio went to the Brookings Institution ( Moderate and Liberal Think Thank ) and in a speech essentially cast himself as a liberal internationalist rather than as a neo-con.- Taking distance from Romney, tacking to the center

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Mitt Romney can not nominate Marco Rubio as vicepresident without making the Greatest U-Turn, Flip-Flop and About-Face in American Politics of the third millennium.

Marco Rubio, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, would have been booed at a Republican Debate for his sound positions that are not far from those of President Obama.

Does Marco Rubio know that year 2012 will be a disaster for Republicans ?? - Is he already taking distance of Mitt Romney and the right wing extremists, so that he has a better future in year 2016 and beyond ??

Marco Rubio gives the impression lately of abandoning the "Brutal" Wing of the Republican Party !

The New Yorker

Marco Rubio, Centrist

Posted by Ryan Lizza

April 25, 2012


Marco Rubio, Centrist


Some excerpts :

The first thing to note about Senator Marco Rubio’s “major” foreign-policy speech today was the venue. Most important Republicans choose to speak about foreign policy at the Heritage Foundation or, especially in the Bush era, the American Enterprise Institute, which incubated and defended the neo-conservatism that defined Bush’s foreign policy. (It’s still Dick Cheney’s forum of choice.) Rubio spoke instead at the venerable Brookings Institution, one of the oldest think tanks in Washington and one that has long fetishized bipartisanship, even as the place has come to be associated with Democrats and a respectable brand of moderate liberalism.

Everything about the speech was meant to send a message of bipartisanship. He was accompanied by Joe Lieberman, the hawkish ex-Democrat, and introduced by Brookings President Strobe Talbott, Deputy Secretary of State in the Clinton administration. He began by noting that he often partners with Democrats in the Senate, and he name-checked Bob Kagan, the author and foreign-policy thinker most famous these days for being mentioned by Barack Obama as his major influence.

Rubio, elected to the Senate in 2010 and now a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, gave a crisp and thoughtful tour of the world that, with very few changes, could easily have come out of the mouth of Barack Obama. He spoke passionately about “foreign aid,” a phrase that would have gotten him booed at a Republican debate. He repeatedly championed the now seemingly quaint post-war tradition of bipartisanship in foreign policy. And when, during a question-and-answer period, he was pressed to describe his differences with President Obama, he was restrained in his criticism and nuanced in explaining how he would handle certain hot spots differently. He twice mentioned the Clinton administration—positively.

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VIDEO, Mitt Romney and Mormonism : The weird Polytheism of Mormons, exposed by a former Mormon and now a Christian Historian and Scholar : James Walker, professor of Religion in several colleges. Responsible Christians

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These are Reformed Church ( Protestants ) members. They share a very big treasure of Scripture, Canonical Books, Doctrines, etc .... with Catholics, Orthodox Christians and others.

The coincidence of Catholics, Protestants, Orthodox, Coptic and other Christian Churches is amazing and overwhelming. They share a huge "corpus" of Scripture, Theology, Doctrine and Tradition.

Almost all these Churches and Christians accept the Nicean Creed or Faith of year 325-326, convened or called by Constantine the Great.

The Mormon Church totally contradicts the Common Scriptures of Catholics and Protestants ( and other Christians ).

Mormonism is a total antiChristian Cult, Mormonism contradicts the Jewish Prophets that always taught that there is ONLY ONE GOD.

Mormonism is Historically a Racist, Brutal Religion that has reduced Women to Sexual Slavery, and that has practiced Pedophilia and Pederasty with very young preadolescent girls.

A religion that has reduced Black People to second order cursed and debased beings. Sheer and Simple Fraud and Imbecility.

Uploaded by ChristInProphecy on Jan 6, 2012

What does Mitt Romney's Mormon faith believe? Find out with guest James Walker on the show Christ in Prophecy.

Mitt Romney and Mormonism

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Federal Reserve sees the jobless rate at between 7.8 percent and 8 percent at end of year. I see no reasons to fear a Depression or Recession. Unemployment is forecast at 7.3 percent to 7.7 percent next year and 6.7 percent to 7.4 percent in 2014.

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You could reduce unemployment at a faster speed, but it would be highly irresponsibly unleashing inflation. Long term the unemployment may fall under 6%.

According to the Federal Reserve Board or FED ( that voted 9 to 1 in the statement and projections ) the economy is forecast to expand at 2.4 percent to 2.9 percent in 2012, by 2.7 percent to 3.1 percent in 2013, and 3.1 percent to 3.6 percent in 2014

Bloomberg
Bernanke Says ‘Prepared to Do More’ After Policy Unchanged
By Caroline Salas Gage and Joshua Zumbrun
April 25, 2012


Bernanke Says ‘Prepared to Do More’ After Policy Unchanged


Some excerpts :

In the U.S., consumer spending is starting to power growth as business investment cools. A report today showed orders for durable goods fell in March by the most in three years, indicating manufacturing will contribute less to growth this year.

Retail Sales

Retail sales rose more than forecast in March as Americans snapped up everything from cars and furniture to clothes and electronics. The 0.8 percent gain was almost three times as large as projected and followed a 1 percent advance in February, Commerce Department figures showed April 16.

An April 27 government report may show that gross domestic product rose at a 2.5 percent annual rate in the first quarter, according to the median forecast in a Bloomberg News survey of economists, driven by the biggest increase in household demand in a year.

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VIDEO, Mitt Romney arrested : offensive, rude, gross, nasty, threatening the Police - Breaking "the rule of law" with his yacht, he threatened to fire policemen from their jobs. Inside police station in swimming trunks - Mitt Weird Freak

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Mitt bragged about being very rich and powerful before the police. He argued back with rudeness to the policemen. And threatened to sue the policemen to kick them out of their jobs.

What a scoundrel !! ..... a true pampered child !! .... and he is always a weird freak that demands that his grandsons call him "Ike" for President Eisenhower. Is this the Bully and Super Macho that wants to swift-boat Obama as a Sissy ??

Published on Apr 23, 2012 by Current

Cenk talks to Alex Pareene about his Salon.com ebook, "The Rude Guide to Mitt Romney," including his demands that his grandkids call him "Ike" (after his favorite president).

*The Young Turks with ... : Even Mitt Romney's arrest record reeks of rich people's problems





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An Illusory Presidency of Mitt Romney would be a Titanic ( of Fantasies ) to be sunk by an iceberg called "Tea Party" and Republican Super Bigots in Congress - These extremist ideologues would cause a horrible paralysis of U. S. Government and its services

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New Republic, Norman Ornstein : The Extremist Conservatives and the unrealistic Paul Ryan budget would force Mitt Romney to cut lots of Social Spending, Social Services, Medicare, Medicaid, Education, Health Services, and even fundamental services that are non military like Air Traffic Control, it will kill the Coast Guard, transportation, energy programs, NIH, CDC, Customs, FBI, NASA, and so on. None are possible with the stringent conditions of Crazy Republicans and their budget cuts.

The New Republic

The Doomed Marriage Between Mitt Romney and Congressional Republicans

April 19, 2012

By Norman Ornstein

Norman Ornstein is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a weekly columnist at Roll Call.

The Doomed Marriage Between Mitt Romney and Congressional Republicans
 
Some excerpts :

Start with the budget designed by Representative Paul Ryan, which House Republicans passed on a party line vote, and which Romney warmly endorsed. While that endorsement may have won Romney some credibility among conservatives, it also promises to tie his hands considerably if he wins the election. To take one example: The Ryan budget says that it will reduce all discretionary spending, domestic and defense, to 3.75 percent of GDP by 2050, less than half of what it is today; but Romney has also pledged to put an ironclad 4 percent of GDP floor under defense spending alone. Taken together, then, a Romney administration would be committed to abandoning the entirety of non-military government. No air traffic control, no Coast Guard, no transportation, energy program, NIH, CDC, Customs, FBI, NASA, and so on. None.

Of course, that is 2050, decades off. But the Ryan budget also poses headaches for Romney right now. It jettisons the bipartisan agreement reached last year to avert default, offering sharply lower discretionary domestic spending numbers for next year’s budget. That means there’s a looming confrontation between the House and the Senate over their respective spending bills, which could result in a government shutdown when the new fiscal year begins on October 1—less than five weeks before the election. For House Republicans, mostly from safe seats dominated by a feisty conservative base happy to have a confrontation, that is just fine. For Romney, not so much.

In the meantime, the Ryan budget numbers have been translated into a dozen specific spending ceilings for Appropriations subcommittees. That means the vague promises of cutbacks are in the process of becoming concrete proposals for cuts in specific programs. To pick an example, we already know that the House will propose a drastic cutback in funding for food stamps. At a time of high unemployment, that will allow President Obama to conveniently portray not just the GOP, but Romney personally, as bent on taking food out of the mouths of poor children for the purpose of protecting tax breaks for billionaires. The food stamp cut will be matched or exceeded in coming months by other even less popular cutbacks, in health research, farm subsidies, food safety, and a host of popular programs.

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VIDEO, Cenk Uygur : Mitt Romney, Vietnam, & Mormon Church Discrimination - Cenk exposes the Cowardice, Hypocrisy and Racism of Mitt Romney - Can Mitt Romney without character and principles be President of the USA ??

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The Cowardice and Hypocrisy of a Great Warmonger, Jingoist, Racist and also a Hyper Nationalist Chauvinist Fascist that wants to bomb Iran and initiate wars everywhere.

Mitt tries to swift-boat Obama as a coward. But Mitt is the Greatest Coward and draft avoider. Obama killed Osama Bin Laden but Mitt wants us to believe that Obama is a Sissy without guts to fight.

Published on Apr 22, 2012 by TheYoungTurks

How did 2012 Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney get out of the Vietnam war? What was Romney's take on the Mormon Church not allowing black people to be priests while he was attending Brigham Young University (BYU)? The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

Mitt Romney, Vietnam, & Mormon Church Discrimination

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I am an optimist about the Future of Relations between the United States and LAC ( Latin American and the Caribbean ) - This is not a wild guess but has a lot to do with History, Culture, Language, Civilization and most Important : The Economy, Trade, Exports ( growing at a very fast speed between USA and LAC )

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If an asteroid falls and kills all mankind except the Latin or LAC Nations then there would still be Rogue or Scoundrel Nations, and Democratic Nations that love Liberty, Freedom, Democracy.

And those better nations would consider the USA as a Historical Inspiration and example.

Like many people look at the Greeks today ( and Athens in particular ) as an inspiration for Civilization and Culture.

Vicente Duque


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"Unauthorized immigrants don’t leave the country, even in the face of harsh anti-immigrant laws. Research shows that anti-immigrant laws don’t cause self-deportation. At best immigrants either leave the state for a friendlier one or go deeper underground"

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"Why don’t they “go home”? Because they are home. Two-thirds of undocumented immigrants have lived in the United States for more than 10 years, nearly half are part of families, and across the country nearly 17 million people live with an undocumented person. Laws like S.B. 1070 ignore reality".

Center for American Progress Organization
3 Reasons Why Laws Like Arizona’s S.B. 1070 Don’t Solve Illegal Immigration
State-Level Anti-Immigrant Laws Won’t Fix the Problem
By By Center for American Progress Immigration Team
April 20, 2012


3 Reasons Why Laws Like Arizona’s S.B. 1070 Don’t Solve Illegal Immigration


Some excerpts :

1. Unauthorized immigrants aren’t actually aliens—they look like everyone else. Arizona’s S.B. 1070 compels police to ask for papers from anyone they have a reasonable suspicion of being without status. But how can you tell who has the right papers? Under these laws any person of color, or anyone with a foreign accent, can be required to prove their status, and can be jailed—regardless of whether they are a citizen or an immigrant—until they can do so.

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GOP leaders. cowards that dodged the draft or war service in Viet Nam : Mitt Romney, Dick Cheney, Newt Gingrich, Tom Delay. The Greatest Despicable Cowards in the Republican Party. Warmongers and Jingoists of Fox News

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The Great Republican Warmongers, Jingoists, Chauvinists, Hyper Nationalists, that want to start wars everywhere, are at the same time the Greatest Cowards that avoided the draft, their kids do not serve in the Military. Very despicable and their explanations can not be more stupid.

Very Idiotic and Stupid explanations, very cynic and coward. "I wasn't in the military because I was a Mormon Missionary in France", so Mitt Romney avoided and eluded Viet Nam for many years.

"I wasn't in the Military because I had other priorities, like rising a family", coward Dick Cheney. He ran to marry and have enough kids to avoid the draft.

And George W. Bush, another coward that avoided the draft and the Vietnam War, swift-boated John Kerry for the presidential election of year 2004, these republican scoundrels showed John Kerry as a coward. But John Kerry was a decorated hero and went to fight in Viet Nam. The coward was George W. Bush.

Mitt Romney is always trying to project the image of a Super Macho of Bravery, Courage and Valor and telling us that Obama is a Coward and Sissy. Mitt Romney is doing great hypocrite efforts to swift-boat Obama. But Obama killed Osam Bin Laden. And the five sons of Mitt Romney avoid the Military like the plague.

Newt Gingrich did not go to war, because "He wouldn't have made a difference"....

But these guys love wars and are trouble-raisers everywhere, These guys are the Greatest Masters of Warmongering, Jingoism, Invasions, Occupations and Bomb Iran.

The same for the Cowards of Fox News that are always pushing for wars, but avoided military service and risk to their tender rosy perfumed skin.

Signed :

Vicente Duque

Boston Globe : The Wall Street Journal and NBC News reported that Romney cited a Republican version of the DREAM Act as an important overture to Hispanic voters when he spoke Sunday at a private fundraiser in Palm Beach, Florida

Mitt Romney’s campaign said Wednesday that Mitt will “study and consider” the immigration bill outlined by Florida Senator Marco Rubio.


Boston.com
Mitt Romney will ‘study and consider’ Marco Rubio’s Republican alternative to the DREAM Act
By Callum Borchers, Globe Correspondent
April 18, 2012

Mitt Romney will ‘study and consider’ Marco Rubio’s Republican alternative to the DREAM Act

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Arizona : Obama strategists are kicking the tires with a three-month-long voter registration effort. They are simply following the same techniques they used in 2008 when putting states like North Carolina and Indiana into play. Then, too, there was much initial skepticism, though both states ended up going for Mr. Obama

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POLITICO.COM
Is Arizona up for grabs in November?
By CHARLES MAHTESIAN
April 19, 2012

Is Arizona up for grabs in November?

Some excerpts :

That's the question looming in the background as Joe Biden arrives in Phoenix for a Thursday fundraiser.

The Obama campaign insists that it is, pointing to the swirl of demographic change that is beginning to reorder state politics. They've even gone so far as to kick the tires with a three-month-long voter registration effort.

From Adam Nagourney's New York Times dispatch earlier this week:

Obama strategists are simply following the same techniques they used in 2008 when putting states like North Carolina and Indiana into play. Then, too, there was much initial skepticism, though both states ended up going for Mr. Obama.

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Public polling earlier in the year suggested that Arizona was in reach for Obama and his strength with Hispanic voters will help, but Romney has some important advantages in Arizona that he doesn't have elsewhere. For one, he begins the fall campaign well-organized in the state, a vestige of the state's February 28 GOP primary. Republicans also have a registration edge of 181,000 voters over Democrats -- and Arizona's relatively high Mormon population will likely provide Romney with a boost.

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VIDEO, Cenk Uygur : Secret Service Scandal - If this continues then they may be blackmailed or penetrated by sexy voluptuous ( abundant ? ) foreign agents - Secret Agents bragging of working with Obama - See very angry Republican Congressmen

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These beaches in Cartagena are famous for some topless girls - so next time go to a convent to be waited and attended by nuns.

Published on Apr 16, 2012 by TheYoungTurks

Via Yahoo News: "An undisclosed number of Secret Service agents with President Barack Obama at an international summit in Colombia have been relieved of their assignments and face an investigation over alleged misconduct, a spokesman for the Secret Service said late Friday...".* Ana Kasparian, Cenk Uygur, Jayar Jackson, and Jesus Godoy break it down on The Young Turks.

Secret Service Scandal

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VIDEO, Rachel Maddow - Romney takes a page from the Karl Rove playbook - Mitt accuses Obama of his own Sins and Weaknesses : Mitt is trying to swift-boat Obama - Obama is a European Atheist Flip-Flopper "out of touch with the common man"

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Mitt's Strategy of Character Assassination : Mitt Romney is Topmost in Hypocrisy. He accuses Obama of Secrecy ( Mitt's own fault ) - Nobody surpasses Mitt in lies, deceit, slander, innuendos, falsities, falsehood, untrue statements, calumny.

Published on Apr 10, 2012 by Licentiathe8th

Wayne Slater, senior political writer and columnist for the Dallas Morning News, talks with Rachel Maddow about Mitt Romney's Karl Rove-ian strategy of accusing President Obama of being weak on the issues Romney is weak on, even when it doesn't make sense

Romney takes a page from the Karl Rove playbook 

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Obamacare is constitutional under the Court's existing precedents. The Supreme Court has had repeated embarrassments as it has tried to police Congress' commerce authority - Genuinely unimaginable that it would again make the same mistake

The New Republic
Bork-Backing, Activist-Hating Legal Expert: Obamacare Is OK
By Jonathan Cohn
April 16, 2012

Why Scalia Could Uphold Obamacare

Some excerpts :

If you're keeping score, that's five very prominent, very well-respected conservatives who have argued that the Affordable Care Act is constitutional. The other four are Charles Fried, Laurence Silberman, Jeffrey Sutton, and J. Harvie Wilkinson. Fried, a Harvard Law School professor, was solicitor general during the Reagan Administration. Wilkinson, a sitting federal judge, was on George W. Bush's short list of potential nominees to the Court.

Silberman and Sutton also sit on the federal bench. They made their statements via rulings, when lawsuits challenging the law came before them. "Appellants cannot find real support for their proposed rule in either the text of the Constitution or Supreme Court precedent," Silberman wrote in his decision.

Some of the law's critics have suggested that, as appellate judges, both Silberman and Sutton might have been reluctant to overturn past decisions, preferring to leave that job to the Supreme Court. But that's precisely the point: Conservatives faithful to traditional interpretations of the Constitution believe the individual mandate, even if novel, falls well within the existing boundaries of constitutional power.

With virtual unanimity, less conservative legal experts seem to agree on this. Just last week, Harvard Law School's Lawrence Lessig weighed in on the case at the Atlantic:

Whether wise or not, Obamacare is plainly constitutional under the Court's existing precedents. That's not to say the Court couldn't make up a new rule by which the law was deemed unconstitutional. But against the history of the repeated embarrassments that the Court has suffered as it has tried to police Congress' commerce authority, it seemed genuinely unimaginable that it would again make the same mistake.

If five justices want to strike down the individual mandate, they can. But to do so honestly, they would have to admit that they were rejecting precedent and drawing new lines around federal power.

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"They have sold food stamps, sold blood, skipped meals, shoplifted, doubled up with friends, scavenged trash bins for bottles and cans and returned to relationships with violent partners, all with children in tow".

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"Today only leaders of the Republican Party, like Ryan and Mitt Romney, believe it’s working so well that the model should be extended to other government programs, including food stamps and Medicaid".

The New Yorker
Iceberg to the Right: From the Titanic to Paul Ryan
by George Packer
April 10, 2012


Iceberg to the Right: From the Titanic to Paul Ryan


Some excerpts :

Even as the recession drove millions of Americans deeper into poverty, many of them, mainly single mothers, continue to be dropped from the welfare rolls under the welfare reform laws of the nineteen-nineties. DeParle, the leading journalistic expert on the subject, did not try to hide his indignation: “They have sold food stamps, sold blood, skipped meals, shoplifted, doubled up with friends, scavenged trash bins for bottles and cans and returned to relationships with violent partners—all with children in tow.”

That’s a picture only a social Darwinist could describe as “an unprecedented success”—which is the phrase Congressman Paul Ryan, who authored the Republican budget plan, uses to describe welfare reform. That program was bipartisan, and widely popular. But today only leaders of the Republican Party, like Ryan and Mitt Romney, believe it’s working so well that the model should be extended to other government programs, including food stamps and Medicaid.

In a less widely quoted passage from his speech, Obama called the Republican budget “antithetical to our entire history as a land of opportunity and upward mobility for everybody who’s willing to work for it.” This was less solid than “social Darwinism.” For in truth, there was a time in American history—it lasted roughly from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the Great Depression—when opportunity and upward mobility were choked off by the concentration of wealth and power in a few hands. 

Ryan, Romney, and the Republican Party want to return to the age of the Titanic, before child-labor laws and laws protecting the right to join unions and the graduated income tax and social insurance, when those in first class survived at much higher rates than the unfortunate souls down in steerage.

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"The ultimate objective behind "attrition through enforcement" : preventing the "browning" of America" is nonetheless doomed to fail because it is on a collision course with seismic demographic shifts that are already underway"

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"If the Court gives its blessing to this coordinated “attrition through enforcement” strategy and allows SB 1070 and its progeny to be implemented, the nation will return to a time of deep division, likely cleaved once again along regional lines, with some states passing welcoming laws, and others passing restrictive ones".

My Comment : If the U. S. Supreme Court declares War against President Obama and the Department of Justice then the Justices are going to lose sooner or later, because they may help the Presidential Reelection and sooner or later the Court will be more Liberal and less dedicated to Conservative Judicial Activism.

I can say the same for the Affordable Care Act ( ACA ), also called ObamaCare. Try to stop the President and Congress and legislate from the bench and the public will reelect President Obama.

Tucson Sentinel
What's at stake if Supreme Court rules for SB 1070?
By Marshall Fitz & Jeanne Butterfield
Center for American Progress
Apr 6, 2012


What's at stake if Supreme Court rules for SB 1070?


Some excerpts :

These anti-immigrant laws, even the ones currently blocked by the courts, have created a climate of fear and division within these states and have triggered a cascade of counterproductive real-world consequences. Some immigrant families decided to leave these states altogether and move to other, more welcoming states rather than accept this state-sponsored marginalization.

As a result, whole sectors of these states’ economies have suffered irreparable harm as immigrant workers either stayed home or left the state and were no longer available to harvest crops or perform other needed services. Companies and organizations that didn’t want their own members to face these draconian laws withdrew their businesses from these states, further extending and deepening the negative economic impact of these ill-conceived new immigration laws.

The significant social and economic harm that has already flowed from the enactment of these laws underscores the potentially monumental importance of the Supreme Court’s decision in the Arizona case. What is at stake is not merely a technical and esoteric legal argument. The ruling in this case could have profound implications, not only for the citizens and immigrants living in states with Arizona-style laws but also for the unity of the nation and the preservation of our core values.

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What Mitt Romney needs to do now is to be himself "A well oiled weathervane", buy Santorum's support, a guy that is suffering under a big pile of campaign debt, use his greatest assets : money and his lack of character

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What Mitt Romney has to do now is to conquer the center and the independents and that requires to abandon the Right Wing Extremist speech that has almost given him the nomination. He is 99% the Republican Nominee and he does not have to court now the Racists, White Supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan and the Super Rich. They will always vote for him, even if he chooses a very moderate vice-president.

Romney has to put on the hat of a Moderate Republican or Massachusetts Liberal ( a costume that he wore in the past ).

Romney does not need to appear in public with his racist friends that he courted during the previous days when his nomination "hanged on a thread" like the White Horse Myth of the Mormons. The bigots, racists, haters and extremists are Kryptonite for Mitt now.

Mitt Romney has to avoid talking about the Racism and Prejudice of Mormonism, and the downtrodden Women of that Religion. He should not talk about the "Second Coming of Jesus Christ to rule the World from Missouri" like he did in year 2008 in a Radio Station in Iowa.

The Electorate does not want a Religious Freak like he is at his core.

And he should be careful when bragging about being a job creator because he really fired a lot of people from their jobs when dismantling and disassembling many corporation in order to sell the assets later at a big profit. He is the favorite of the Wall Street Robber Barons.

Romney knows more about kicking people out of their jobs and "Vulture Capitalism" than job creation. And his ideas pushed during the first three months of the Primaries were pure idiotic trickle down economics that has already proven to be fatal for the American Economy.

Fortunately Mitt Romney is the king of Flip-Floppers and unprincipled opportunists, the etch-a-sketch candidate, and his advisors, consultants and aides know that he should practice an economy close to what President Obama is doing, otherwise he sinks the economy.

Etch A Sketch is a mechanical drawing toy for little children where they can draw whatever they wish and change whatever their whim tells them to do.

That is Mitt Romney "A well oiled weathervane" as his close friend and supporter John Huntsman said, Huntsman is a fellow Mormon, that was Governor of Utah and vied unsuccessfully during the Republican Primaries of 2012.

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TNR : The Supreme Court eventually repudiated the logic in Drexel Furniture, much as it did the logic of Lochner. Partly, the justices were reacting to popular sentiment (and, in some tellings, President Franklin Roosevelt's threats to pack the court with more sympathetic justices )

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History : When the U. S. Supreme Court defended all abuses of the Powerful against the Poor, Children, Blacks, etc .....because they considered that Governments should have very small powers and very little authority to regulate society and the economy.

The New Republic

Yes, Obama's Comments on the Court Made Sense

In Praise of the President's Understanding of Constitutional Law

By Jonathan Cohn

April 10, 2012


Yes, Obama's Comments on the Court Made Sense


Some excerpts :

But partly they were recognizing that the country really had changed: In the contemporary, integrated economy, government in general and the federal government in particular needed more regulatory authority in order to keep capitalism functioning and to protect citizens from harm.

Although at least some libertarians openly wish for a return to Lochner-era notions of economic liberty, many (and probably most) historians look back on the Lochner decisions as a blemish on the Court’s history, albeit for different reasons. That’s one reason why conservatives are so sensitive to Lochner references: Nobody wants that label. In fact, when a government lawyer raised the specter of Lochner during oral arguments over the health care law two weeks ago, Chief Justice John Roberts sternly made the very same point Taranto did: Lochner was about state regulation, not federal regulation.

But I'm pretty sure both Obama and his administration's lawyer were saying something different, and broader, when they invoked Lochner: By invalidating the Affordable Care Act, the Supreme Court would be resurrecting a vision of constitutionally limited government that, quite rightly, went out of fashion a long time ago.

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VIDEO, "Healthcare History Lesson" by Old Fart Rants : ObamaCare is a Republican Idea, conceived and given birth to by Republicans : Richard Nixon in 1974, was promoted by the extremely conservative Heritage Foundation in 1989

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ObamaCare was introduced by Newt Gingrich and the Republicans in 1993 and implemented in Massachusetts by Mitt Romney in 2005-

Uploaded by oldfartrants on Apr 4, 2012

It's obvious to me after the last couple of videos I did about the Supreme Court deciding the constitutionality of Obamacare that a lot of people don't know anything. And even though they might not necessarily be stupid, they've been so brainwashed by the constant propaganda of Fox News, Republicans and Tea Partiers just about everything they know is wrong.

And the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare as it's now called even by Obama, was conceived within this vision and given birth to by Republicans. The idea goes all the way back to Richard Nixon in 1974, was promoted by the extremely conservative Heritage Foundation in 1989, introduced by Newt Gingrich and the Republicans in 1993 and implemented in Massachusetts by Mitt Romney in 2005.

The individual mandate was conceived by Republicans because it lets people buy private policies from for-profit insurance companies operating in the free market, rather than a single payer system run by the government which would actually be a mild form of socialism like Medicare. Obamacare is a decades old idea, born, bred and even implemented by Republicans - so it's about as far away from socialism as you can get.

Until President Obama, a black Democrat, decided to go with it because he knew Republicans would never allow a single payer solution to America's broken and overpriced healthcare system, no one ever called it "socialized medicine" or a "government takeover" or sreamed about "death panels."

Arguing with people who don't know anything and act like bratty little children to get their way just proves what I always say - stupidity is a bigger threat to America than terrorism is. And that kinda makes stupid people the enemy, doesn't it? No wonder Republicans don't want college students to vote.

"Healthcare History Lesson" by Old Fart Rants

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Before 1932 conservative Supreme Court majorities nullified progressive laws aimed at regulating the economy and expanding the rights of workers and consumers. The threat now is a return to pre-New Deal conservative judicial activism

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The "Four Horsemen" of the U. S. Supreme Court rode against the New Deal in 1935-1937 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt condemned them as "Social Darwinism" - FDR could change the Court after June 1937 and finally triumphed.

Washington Post
Obama levels straight shots at Supreme Court and Ryan budget
By E. J. Dionne Jr
April 8, 2012

Obama levels straight shots at Supreme Court and Ryan budget


Some excerpts :

What’s lost in our discussions of judicial activism is that in the period from the Gilded Age after the Civil War to the middle of the New Deal, it was conservative Supreme Court majorities that nullified progressive laws aimed at regulating the economy and expanding the rights of workers and consumers. The threat now is a return to pre-New Deal conservative judicial activism.

In fact, Obama’s statements are moderate compared with those of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who unsuccessfully sought to add members to the court after it had voided one New Deal law after another.

The Constitution, Roosevelt insisted, is “a layman’s document, not a lawyer’s contract.” Its ambiguities had created “an unending struggle between those who would preserve this original broad concept of the Constitution” and those who “cry ‘unconstitutional’ at every effort to better the condition of our people.”

The United States, FDR insisted, could not afford “to sacrifice each generation in turn while the law catches up with life.” He spoke with a sense of urgency in the midst of the Great Depression. “The millions who are in want,” he said, “will not stand by silently forever while the things to satisfy their needs are within easy reach.”

FDR lost the court-packing fight but won the larger battle over the right of the democratic branches of government to legislate on behalf of the common good.

Progressives would be wildly irresponsible if they sat by quietly while a conservative Supreme Court majority undid 80 years of jurisprudence. Roosevelt wasn’t a wimp, and Obama has decided that he won’t be one, either. Conservatives are unhappy because they prefer passive, intimidated liberals to the fighting kind.

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VIDEO : Lawrence O'Donnell : 'Mormon' Mitt Romney's Pathetic Attempt To 'Swift-Boat' Obama on Religion : Mitt accuses Obama of being an Atheist - An Atheist is worse than being a Muslim for the electorate

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The 48 wives of "Prophet" Joseph Smith - Mitt Romney has to accuse President Obama on Religious Matters. Gallup Polls : 22% unwilling to vote for a Mormon.

'Mormon' Mitt Romney's Pathetic Attempt To 'Swift-Boat' Obama on Religion

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Morgan Housel ( The Motley Fool ) : U.S. apartment vacancies are now at a decade low. - Household debt payments as a percent of income are now the lowest since 1994 - 50 Amazing Numbers About Today's Economy in "Daily Finance"

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My Comment : If Apartment Vacancies are so low and Household debt payments as a percent of income are also very low now, then the corollary theorem is very simple : The American Economy needs more housing and there is money to pay for it, so building is very necessary now. And we will see a great expansion of Apartment Building and there is a bright future for the industry and Construction Workers. This is a great motor for the Economy and we are at the threshold of an economic Recovery.

My speculation and guess is that the recovery is very slow because the average consumer still has a lot of "Fear of the Future" but this fear will dissolve as things improve and more people are hired. The construction industry will give impulse and momentum to the General Economy.

Fear and Feelings of Economic Insecurity have a Great Inertia and are not dispelled easily, but things look very bright for the Economy this year 2012 and the storm clouds will clear for a sunny day.

The "Motley Fool" Morgan Housel also gives this amazing fact here in this link :

"The combined assets of Wal-Mart's (NYS: WMT) Walton family is equal to that of the bottom 150 million Americans".

Daily Finance

50 Amazing Numbers About Today's Economy

By Morgan Housel, The Motley Fool

April 5, 2012

50 Amazing Numbers About Today's Economy


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Mitt Romney's only hope of winning the presidency is to distance himself from the Republican party. And yet, he’s done nothing but tie himself to the GOP's most polarizing elements. GOP's Recent History shows clearly that Romney will be defeated. Romney lacks character

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I write this based on the thoughts of two great intellectuals : Robert Creamer and Noam Scheiber and my own observations :

Mitt Romney suffers from an incredible lack of character and personality. He is a "well oiled weathervane". And that is very grave and defeating for Romney because this presidential election will be decided on the character and core values of the candidates.

"Barack Obama is a tough, decisive guy — a guy who is guided by solid core principles and has a disciplined, laser-focused will. This is not a President that flip-flops in the political wind or is swayed by the last person who talks to him. Above all, Barack Obama is centered. He has a solid core built around strong core values". The hunt and killing of Osama Bin Laden shows President Obama at his best as a decisive leader and strong man". - Robert Creamer in the Huffington Post, January 29, 2012

"Voters want leaders who believe in something other than their own election. Quite correctly they want leaders with a strong moral center. They want leaders who make and keep commitments to their principles and to other people. And they want to know that the candidates they support are the leaders they will get after the election — not, as John Huntsman said of Romney, “a well-oiled weathervane". - Robert Creamer.

And John Huntsman is a very close friend and supporter of Romney and also a fellow Mormon.

The recent History of Republican presidential defeats in the last 40 years shows that Mitt Romney will be defeated in 2012 by President Obama.

I give the sources and links of these provocative thoughts :

The New Republic
Why Romney Is Too Moderate to Beat Obama
By Noam Scheiber
April 5, 2012


Why Romney Is Too Moderate to Beat Obama

Some excerpts :

Romney, if anything, suffers even more acutely from this problem. McCain and Dole were war heroes, at least, which counts for something in conservative circles. They also hailed from conservative states. In the eyes of right-wingers, Romney’s résumé offers nothing remotely as redeeming. No surprise, then, that having effectively bagged the nomination, a time when you’d expect him to lunge for the middle, Romney is moving rightward.

How else to explain his strange embrace of Paul Ryan and Ryan’s Medicare-gutting, upper-income-tax-refunding budget in recent days? Given that the country is pretty down on Republicans, Romney's only hope of winning the presidency is to distance himself from the party. And yet, over the last week, he’s done nothing but tie himself to the GOP's most polarizing elements. He spent five days as Ryan’s wingman in Wisconsin and then explicitly defended the Ryan plan in Washington on Wednesday.

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USA TODAY/Gallup Poll in Key States finds that Obama boosted by huge shift of women to his side. - GOP stances alienate women : Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin.

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This is the best proof that Women are more intelligent than Men :

President Obama leads Romney among women by 18 percentage points. It is impossible for Romney to win the Presidency with such numbers.

In the poll, Romney leads among all men by a single point, but the president leads among women by 18. That reflects a greater disparity between the views of men and women than the 12-point gender gap in the 2008 election.

The biggest change came among women under 50. In mid-February, just under half of those voters supported Obama. Now more than six in 10 do while Romney's support among them has dropped by 14 points, to 30%. The president leads him 2-1 in this group.

Romney's main advantage is among men 50 and older, swamping Obama 56%-38%.

USA Today

Swing States Poll: A shift by women puts Obama in lead

By Susan Page, USA TODAY

Swing States Poll: A shift by women puts Obama in lead



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Robert Shrum : Supreme Court vs President Obama : The Red Queen's jurisprudence of Alice in Wonderland : First the verdict, then the trial - Tea Party inside court is best friend and ally of Obama's reelection

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To kill an Obamacare Bird : We may be close to a Supreme Court Decision that would live in Infamy ! :

The Week
Will a Tea Party Supreme Court guarantee Obama a second term ?
The court's conservative wing appears ready to engage in some despicable judicial activism on ObamaCare. Politically, at least, the justices are doing Obama a favor
By Robert Shrum
March 30, 2012


Will a Tea Party Supreme Court guarantee Obama a second term ?

Some excerpts :

Largely missing from the coverage of the health reform case are the most important consequences of nullifying the law: The tragedy of tens of millions who would again be left without insurance; the plight of young adults now on their parents' policies who would be thrown off; the desperation of those with pre-existing conditions who would be left with no coverage and nowhere to turn; the agony of patients who, because of lifetime limits on their insurance, would see it canceled just before the next round of chemotherapy.

It took a hundred years to remedy all of this by passing health reform; it could take decades to pass it again if and after a changed Supreme Court reversed an ideologically driven denial of health care as a fundamental human right and not just another product in the market place.

Of course, the court could split the difference, voiding the mandate while validating other elements of the legislation. But to retain provisions like the one on pre-existing conditions would trigger an explosion in insurance premiums if people weren't required to buy coverage and could just wait for it until they were already ill. This may be the unlikeliest outcome of all. Both Roberts and Kennedy appeared inclined, in the absence of the individual mandate, to function as a super-legislature and dispense with the entire bill. During the argument, the Obama administration gave limited support to that notion — that some parts of the law simply can't be sustained without a mandate.

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The president certainly doesn't want to see his landmark achievement, unequaled since the New Deal and the civil rights revolution of the 1960s, left in the judicial dust. But ironically, such a result could rebound to his benefit. A politically infected court could produce a politically unexpected result that would confound the conventional punditry, strengthening him and weakening Romney and the Republicans.

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I hope for this, but I fear the alternative, a decision that would live in infamy — that would not only deprive millions of health care, but launch a de-evolution back to the grim days when the Supreme Court in 1918 struck down a child labor law with a rigidly narrow reading of the Commerce Clause.

In a second term, Barack Obama, if he has the chance to appoint new justices, could prevent a new era of reaction. Perhaps the GOP presidential candidates are right about the boilerplate echoing off the walls at their rallies — that this is "the most important election of our lifetime." And unless they draw back from the brink, a slim Republican majority on a debased Supreme Court will help Obama win it.

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More Americans say they are personally better off since Obama took office in January 2009 than worse off, a Bloomberg National Poll found last month. That’s the first favorable reading for the president on that question since Bloomberg began asking it in December 2010

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Bloomberg.com
U.S. Economy Enters Sweet Spot as China Slows
By Rich Miller and Simon Kennedy
April 2, 2012

U.S. Economy Enters Sweet Spot as China Slows


Some excerpts :

The U.S. once again may be emerging as a main engine for global growth -- and at an opportune time, as Europe slides into recession and China’s economy decelerates.

An improving job market, rising stock prices and easier credit are combining to lift U.S. consumer confidence and spending, with optimism measured by the Bloomberg Comfort Index near a four-year high. Personal-consumption expenditures increased by the most in seven months in February, rising 0.8 percent, the Commerce Department said last week.

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“We’re entering a sweet spot for the economy,” said Allen Sinai, president of Decision Economics Inc. in New York. “We’re in a self-reinforcing cycle,” where faster employment growth leads to higher household income and increased consumer spending.

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President Barack Obama should get a boost in his bid to win re-election in November if the U.S. economy strengthens and the job market continues to improve. Unemployment held at a three- year low of 8.3 percent in March, and payrolls rose by more than 200,000 workers for a fourth consecutive month, according to the median forecast of economists surveyed by Bloomberg News. The Labor Department will release last month’s figures on April 6.

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Americans are better positioned to spend because of the progress they’ve made in repairing their balance sheets, helped by record-low interest rates engineered by the Federal Reserve, Carson said. The central bank cut the federal funds rate commercial banks charge each other for overnight loans to zero to 0.25 percent in December 2008 and has suggested it will hold there until late 2014.

Household financial obligations -- everything from mortgages and rents to property taxes and car-lease payments -- fell to a 28-year low in the fourth quarter, when measured against disposable income, according to Fed data. That ratio stood at 15.9 percent at the end of 2011, down from a record 18.9 percent in the third quarter of 2007, just before the start of the 18-month recession that ended in June 2009.

Spending Capacity

The capacity of consumers to spend “has been greatly enhanced now that financial obligations absorb a much smaller share of overall income,” Carson wrote in a March 16 report. So GDP growth this year could exceed 3 percent, he predicted.

Households also are finding it easier to borrow, as their creditworthiness increases and banks become less stingy with loans. Consumer credit rose $17.8 billion in January to $2.51 trillion, capping the biggest three-month gain in more than a decade, Fed figures show.

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It is “far too early to declare victory” for the economy, Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said last week, according to a transcript of an interview with ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer provided by the network. “We haven’t quite yet got to the point where we can be completely confident that we’re on a track to full recovery.”

Some private economists sound more upbeat.

“The American consumer is definitely coming back,” said Bluford Putnam, chief economist at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and a former official at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He predicts expansion of as much as 4 percent this year and no more Fed bond purchases after two rounds of so- called quantitative easing totaling $2.3 trillion.

“We’re in great shape for the economy to do very well this year,” he said. “Not a super-strong engine, but it will be a positive factor on global growth, as opposed to being sluggish.”

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VIDEO : Ed Schultz and Mike Papantonio : Republican Healthcare Plan Is "Go Home And Die" - Absurd Mitt Romney before Jay Leno - Supreme Court and Obamacare : Justices Roberts and Scalia : their minds

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Uploaded by golefttv on Mar 29, 2012


Mike Papantonio and Ed Schultz discuss the GOP's plan for healthcare, which Mitt Romney laid out recently to Jay Leno, which is to basically go home and die.

Papantonio: Republican Healthcare Plan Is "Go Home And Die"

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