Also, JOL is a discussion board, JaxObserver is a Newsblog there is a big difference.

Americans, Jacksonville voters, don’t like the “change” they’re getting from Obama and Congress and the Republicans are playing to that quite well. The Democrats know that, but they’d rather obfuscate and divert attention away from this reality than to change their policies.

Republicans are knocking on doors and finding people agree with them more than Obama. They’re building consensus and it’s has the Democrats (no “ic”) concerned that their policies are going to cause them 2010 losses. Which is correct. I see big victories for the Republicans in the mid-term elections.

This traditionally happens to any first term President, but this administration has drastically alienated the working-class and seniors in America. Americans vehemently disagree with the Obama/Congress policies they’ve seen since January. 63% say the nation is headed in the wrong direction.
The Republican visits are galvanizing those voters in a dramatic way. The party is turning disagreement into activity, and the activity will turn to votes by virtue of the time and emotion workers have invested in the process. An example would be the home-bound elderly woman I visited and wants to make phone calls since she can’t “get out as well as used to”. The country is in an uproar, and the Republican are their answer, {for the first time in decades the GOP is considered to be the stronger fiscal party}.

This is why liberal blogs bar conservatives who embarass them on their own turf; This is why the Tea Parties are such a threat to liberalism, and more specifically; the Democrat Party. This is why the there is so much discussion over two posters in a sea of posters!

Obama: the one-term wonder

The federal deficit has been tripled in one year. It is questionable whether a lot of the spending in the Stimulus really will stimulate the economy. A lot the spending is deffered in the bill until 2010 (almost certainly a political move to pick-up votes in the mid-terms).

The administration has gone from an estimated 4 million jobs to be created to an estimated 150,000 jobs saved (how do we prove that). Did we not lose almost 450,000 jobs in June? If we print money to get out of the recession, do we not risk inflation which could be worse?

If we were going to run up a defecit to help end the recession, a tax holiday (on all personal income tax for one year) would have been a much better solution. It would have provided about 4% to 6% of the GDP toward spending within a 12 month period rather than having less than 5% spread over three years.

The Republicans certainly spent like Democrats from 2001 throughb 2006; however, the Democrats are now in full power and have tripled that spending. We need a agreement among the Republicans and the “Blue Dog” Democrats (Democrats who are fiscally conservative) to take back our country. We need congressional members that are less concerned with their power and more concerned with doing what is right for the country.

I may be wrong, but, the numbers that I heard are that 37% of the people in the US receive some sort of government assistance and that up to 51% do not pay income tax. If these people are incapable of connecting the relationship of higher taxes to fewer jobs, then we are headed toward becoming a nation of people who are dependent on government for everything, with no one producing anything of value.

Broad generalizations, ad hominem attacks, assumptions about peoples past affilitations or actions and spraying flames around in a feeble attempt to illicit a negative reaction are not what qualifies as debate in most peoples book.