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originally posted by: Gryphon66
a reply to: xuenchen
You're just an unmitigated ray of sunshine. The successes of this effort will be in even starker contrast after your new Red Congress gets going. Unemployment back to 12% or so, more bailouts for Wall Street...
Just wait until the American people see what you guys have up your sleeves!
originally posted by: xuenchen
Can't wait for the new failures to emerge as new loans get approved.
originally posted by: xuenchen
a reply to: Gryphon66
Is the President responsible for the bills he sends up to Congress or not?
I'll have to find some examples of Presidents sending bills to Congress.
Then I'll get back to ya.
The first step in the legislative process is the introduction of a bill to Congress. Anyone can write it, but only members of Congress can introduce legislation. Some important bills are traditionally introduced at the request of the President, such as the annual federal budget.
originally posted by: Gryphon66
a reply to: mc_squared
You will notice that our friends on the right don't really ask us or care about what our thoughts actually are on the subject.
They're always too busy telling us what we and all the other "liberal/progressive/communists" believe.
“It is the biggest and perhaps the most important mandate a political party has had in the recent era and it is very simple what that mandate is. It is to stop Barack Obama. It is to stop the Democrat Party. There is no other reason why Republicans were elected yesterday. Republicans were not elected to govern.
Section 1.
All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.
How do we know, though, that stealing/intercepting/subtracting this energy...from the Earth...that has made the Earth a wonderfully livable planet...won't cause havoc with everything from volcanoes, earthquakes, super storms, seasonal-inversions, oxygenation, ocean temperatures & currents, and ice coverage...?
The total solar energy absorbed by Earth's atmosphere, oceans and land masses is approximately 3,850,000 exajoules (EJ) per year.[8] In 2002, this was more energy in one hour than the world used in one year.
How do we know that thriving species, today, will not be wiped-out in a few decades?
We don't - but - we'll gamble on an unknown future over the present paradigm...
originally posted by: xuenchen
a reply to: Gryphon66
and what was it that happened again starting in 2007?
A Democrat Congress !!!!
Yikes !!!!
The Department of Energy loan program was used to kickstart the clean tech industry in America. But after some high profile defaults like Solyndra and Fisker, it became a focal point for partisan grandstanding - even though the program itself was actually first developed under the Bush administration, and it was entirely expected (and thus prepared) to incur some losses:
The results of the Congressional probe shared Tuesday with ABC News show that less than two weeks before President Bush left office, on January 9, 2009, the Energy Department's credit committee had voted against offering a loan commitment to Solyndra.
Even after Obama took office on Jan. 20, 2009, analysts in the Energy Department and in the Office of Management and Budget were repeatedly questioning the wisdom of the loan. In one exchange, an Energy official wrote of "a major outstanding issue" -- namely, that Solyndra's numbers showed it would run out of cash in September 2011.
originally posted by: xuenchen
a reply to: mc_squared
And I think this latest attempt to shed positive light on the "loans" is evidence of book cooking and egg boiling.
a reply to: Gryphon66
Yes, it did take a Democratic Congress AND a Democratic President to Reverse ten years of Republican Control of Government!