Politapocalypse (U.S. Politics Megathread)

Yeah we ignore idiot pissant's such as yourself Cranksore. I had to LOL on your recent post attributing low gas prices (and why in the hell aren't you plugging in an EV rather than gassing up anyway) to Obama and your " don't drill baby drill" ignorant statement. Truth be told the moronic progressive rabid enviro movement along with the dear leader have succeeded in slowing FF procurement on Fed land, but this slowdown was dwarfed by a huge increase of extraction on private and state land. So, thank forward thinking Americans and the Saudi's economic jihad against our FF industry for your cheap gas. Ironically this is the polar opposite of the "energy prices will necessarily skyrocketing" promise of the jihadist in chief.

a lie is when you say something that is simply not true

so why did you lie?

Hahahaha.

Let us know what Obama blocked in the first three days.

You got nothing but a vivid imagination.

For Rubio, it’s all about his ears, sweating and drinking too much water

I asked for specifics.

What are you talking about, specifically?

You mean he didn't snub the Republicans... three days after taking office... over the most significant legislation of his first year?

Ok, that's pretty specific. It has to be three days, and it has to be a significant piece of legislation, and he has to have snubbed them.

“Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won.” – President Obama to House Republican Whip Eric Cantor, January 23, 2009.

Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won.” – President Oba

Bush claims mandate, sets 2nd-term"
Bush staked his claim to a broad mandate and announced his top priorities at a post-election news conference, saying his 3.5 million vote victory had won him political capital that he would spend enacting his conservative agenda.

"I earned capital in this campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it," Bush told reporters. "It is my style."

That's it? That's the big legislative snub in the first three days? It's the winner of an election reminding the losers they will have to deal with him. It's called reality.

Your memory of post election declarations must be pretty dim. Here's GWB's first meeting with reporters after the 2004 election. He won both elections by smaller margins than Obama did.

Bush claims mandate, sets 2nd-term"
Bush staked his claim to a broad mandate and announced his top priorities at a post-election news conference, saying his 3.5 million vote victory had won him political capital that he would spend enacting his conservative agenda.

"I earned capital in this campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it," Bush told reporters. "It is my style."

There have been whole papers on the phenomenon of the claimed mandate. Here's the start of one going back to 1983 talking about the mandate Reagan claimed in 1980

http://web.grinnell.edu/courses/pol/f02/pol101-02/Dahl%20-%20Myth%20of%20the%20Presidential%20Mandate.pdf

It's a fact of presidential politics that the winner claims right to set the agenda. It has happened in every election I remember in my lifetime, even when results were razor thin. In this case, Obama got more than 51% of the vote both times, by greater margins than either bush, or than Reagan got.

Here's an article that records all the past claims from past presidents, and says it's the only legitimate way to start office.

http://www.thenation.com/article/president-can-and-must-claim-mandate-govern/

So your claim of a big snub on major legislations here days after is bunk. There wasn't yet any legislation either proposed or voted on . It's part of the kabuki that happens after every election.
And it is You trying to deny mandate the president had. Weak sauce.

What I said was accurate.

yeah, except for the snub, the legislation, and that either was in the first three days.