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The Economy Is So "Strong" It Just Cost Obama The Senate

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Based on the ridiculous, seasonally-adjusted data released day after day by the various US "Departments of Truth", also known as the BLS, the Census, the Dept of Commerce, UMichigan, ADP, the Conference Board and so on, the US economy is so strong and consumer confidence is so resurgent, America is on the verge of a second golden age. Sadly, for Obama, and last night's epic rout for Democrats, it was all a lie - a lie perpetuated by a manipulated S&P500 which now hits daily record highs on unprecedented central bank liquidity injections which have now terminally disconnected the "markets" from the economy, and the welfare of the vast majority of the common "folk" - and said "folk" saw right through it.

Bloomberg's take is just one of many observations on the historic cognitive dissonance that is plaguing the mainstream media this morning, which has been furiously pumping up US confidence by pitching the endless array of "fake data" (to use Paul Singer's words), only to see it all blow up in its face today.

The economy was voters’ most pressing concern as they cast their ballots in the midterm election, with seven of 10 rating conditions poor, preliminary exit polls showed.

 

More than five years after the recession ended, ordinary Americans still feel pinched. Wages and incomes haven’t recovered even as corporate profits hit records, stocks have almost tripled and the nation’s output of goods and services grew more than $1 trillion from its pre-recession peak.

 

Obama’s Democratic allies took the hit, with Republicans gaining a majority in the Senate for the first time during his presidency and adding seats in the House, which they have controlled for four years. Yet Republicans could hardly claim a mandate from yesterday’s results, and they’ll be judged on their ability to govern.

Irony #1: Bloomberg, which has been one of the many outlets spinning the "great recovery" is confused:

The discontent simmered even as the economy showed signs of strengthening in the run-up to the election, posting its strongest six months of growth in more than a decade. Gross domestic product expanded at a 3.5 percent annualized rate in the three months that ended in September after a 4.6 percent gain in the second quarter, the best back-to-back showing since 2003.

Maybe, just maybe, the economy never really strengthened, and it was all even more of the same propaganda that has ordinary Americans finally seeing through the lies. Bloomberg at least admits that much: "Most Americans haven’t shared in the gains. Adjusted for inflation, the July median household income of $54,045 was $2,600 lower than in December 2007.... Voters by 65-31 percent said the country is on the wrong track. That’s 12 points more negative than two years ago and was the second-gloomiest exit-poll reading since 1990, trailing only the 2008 election, the preliminary numbers showed. Half of voters expect life to be worse for the next generation."

Irony #2: even as America is increasingly seeing through the left-right lies, and realizes that the GOP has no magic bullet to fix the economy, the vote last night was not for Republicans as much as against a broken status quo.

Senator Bob Corker, a Tennessee Republican, attributed his party’s gains to “disappointment and disillusionment with the administration.” He added, “I don’t think on the other end it’s a major endorsement of the Republican Party, either.”

 

Fifty-eight percent of voters said they were dissatisfied or angry at the White House, according to the preliminary exit polls; 59 percent said the same about Republican congressional leaders.

Irony #3: nothing will change:

Senator Ted Cruz, a Tea Party-backed Texas Republican, said this week that his colleagues must fight Obama at every turn. His priority, he told the Washington Post, is “looking at the abuse of power, the executive abuse, the regulatory abuse, the lawlessness that sadly has pervaded this administration.”

 

Cruz also wants to line up votes to dismantle Obama’s health-care law, a mission that would require improbable two-thirds majorities in both chambers to overcome presidential vetoes.

 

Some Republican leaders also say an all-out confrontation with Democrats is a one-way ticket back to the minority. Already, there are a few issues, most notably the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, where both sides say there is opportunity for Obama to come together with Republicans.

The problem is that Obama, increasingly focused only on the golf course, will have none of it.

Frustrated with gridlock in Congress, Obama declared earlier this year that he would use his executive power to circumvent lawmakers on climate change and the minimum wage paid to federal contractors, as well as on immigration. That didn’t help his party yesterday and some, including Vice President Joe Biden, have signaled a willingness to compromise with Republicans.

The irony does not stop there, because the biggest beneficiary of the Obama administration and the split Congress so far has been the 1%, by way of the S&P 500 rising relentlessly in the fact of bad or good news. That rise continued overnight.

U.S. equity-index futures rose, the dollar strengthened and precious metals fell. Standard & Poor’s 500 Index futures advanced 0.4 percent at 10:03 a.m. in London, signaling the gauge will approach a record. The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index climbed to its highest level since April 2009. The Stoxx Europe 600 Index jumped 1 percent.

Well, the economy may not get better but at least the rich will get a little richer as the charade continues.

But even a world full of ironies needs some humor, and it got it with this WSJ story, "GOP Senate Takeover Puts Fed on Hot Seat":

Republicans’ takeover of the U.S. Senate promises increased political turbulence for the Federal Reserve, which has already been under pressure from a GOP-controlled House.

 

Financial executives say a GOP-led Senate would ratchet up congressional scrutiny of the central bank’s interest-rate policies, as well as its regulatory duties as overseer of the nation’s largest financial firms. Republicans haven’t controlled the Senate since before the 2008 financial crisis and recession, which put a spotlight on the Fed and its powers.

 

“If the Republicans take control of the Senate and thus have control of both the House and the Senate—two words for the Federal Reserve: Watch out,” Camden Fine, president of the Independent Community Bankers of America, said before the Election Day results were final. His group represents the community-banking industry.

While we enjoy the humor that someone will dare to touch the goose that lays the golden market, we wish to make a small correction: it's not two words. It's three: "get to work." Because after a few days, when the excitement and the drama wears off, the people will once again realize they have been fooled, the only winners are Wall Street, the wealthy and their political marionettes in D.C. As for everyone else, well there is 2016, and then 2018, and so on... because the lie must go on.

 

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Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:11 | 5414050 LULZBank
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Who took my husband's Fried Chicken Bitchezz!!

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:13 | 5414064 Arius
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Wrong!

 

It did not cost Obama a penny ... it cost America plenty.

 

Good luck to you all with the new Republican leadership .... suckers

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:17 | 5414075 The Juggernaut
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"Remember, remember, the 5th of November The Gunpowder Treason and plot; I see of no reason why Gunpowder Treason Should ever be forgot."  - V for Vendetta

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:28 | 5414095 LULZBank
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But did Obama realy loose the election because of voting and economy?

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:30 | 5414136 toady
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Nope. Ebola& ISIS. A good ol' fear election. Classic red team. Yay team!

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:33 | 5414157 post turtle saver
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nope... he lost because of the ACA and DOJ / IRS corruption...

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:38 | 5414173 Headbanger
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Nope.. OBAMA has been a lie his whole life!

Take a look:

http://www.tomatobubble.com/putin_obama.html#.U9vrUm0X30c.email

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:42 | 5414192 Thought Processor
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Because Obama.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:46 | 5414209 LULZBank
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Please Lord, a straight, White male for the US president next time!

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:52 | 5414230 Oh regional Indian
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The desired result was a gridlock, which is now at hand. A solidly repub house/senate and a dem WH.

Nothing will move in the US for the next two years except scandals and further global aggression.

Clinton redux, only worse.

The theater of the absurd continues...

 

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:54 | 5414244 Headbanger
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LULZ...  And a hot hot wife who keeps him going for it!

And who doesn't do stupid shit like mess with school lunches.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 10:02 | 5414269 LULZBank
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Do you get an orgasm when your President is fucking a hot wife?

Or you just want him to be screwing somebody else and not you, the people?

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 10:05 | 5414274 hedgeless_horseman
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The NFL won the Super Bowl...again.

Red Team...Blue Team...same League Ownership.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 10:05 | 5414281 Divided States ...
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We need a fuckin Jewish President next time....

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 10:14 | 5414320 LULZBank
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Black, jewish, lesbian president on a wheel chair, who lost her legs trying to save a puppy.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 10:29 | 5414388 TruthInSunshine
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The Obama Economy is so robust that stalwart Vanguards of the New 'Merikan Economy are doing things like this -

American Eagle Outfitters Launches American Beagle Outfitters

http://www.elle.com/news/fashion-style/american-beagle-outfitters

Make sure to check out the sharp dressed mutts!

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:56 | 5414245 GetZeeGold
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Thank goodness for amnesty....the one thing both sides can agree on.

 

Bring on Jeb and Hillary to complete the suck.

 

Doesn't matter which one wins....it's the same thing.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 10:07 | 5414285 RaceToTheBottom
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Is it Rayccist to say that a bucket of Fried Chicken is now the size of a cup?

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 10:35 | 5414420 mrdenis
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Rand Paul ...........

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 10:37 | 5414430 Cathartes Aura
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LMAO.

it begins. . .

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 11:29 | 5414656 Spastica Rex
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It never ends.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 12:02 | 5414854 Cathartes Aura
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on a long enough time line. . .

history is just a series of looped, repetitive cycles.

echoes.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 10:54 | 5414511 Citxmech
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Jeb or Hillary?  

How would you like your stale vomit?

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 10:02 | 5414263 LULZBank
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The desired result was a gridlock,

 

ORI, interesting you say that as that is what I have been thinking over past few years. In most countries around the world, weak (coalition) governments are being propped up, as if there is an agenda.

UK, Germany, France, Italy etc etc.

Seems like the real masters want to flex a bit more of the muscle and show some face as whats the point of ruling the world, if you cant swing your dick. Vain temptations are very tempting.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 10:22 | 5414357 Oh regional Indian
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Indeed Lulz.

Interetingly, India has a solid majority government at the top, but one with strong fascist tendencies.

Interesting. Their first big business was ordering $4 billion worth of anti-tank missiles from, get this,Israel!

Interesting times indeed!

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 10:26 | 5414375 LULZBank
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Maybe there is still some left to squeeze in India.

But it is odd.

However, strong govts (even dictatorships) are preferred in the 2nd and 3rd world victim countries. Just to make the looting and pillaging debate free.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 10:21 | 5414359 Cathartes Aura
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.

Please Lord, a straight, White male for the US president next time!

 

y'all crack me up.  because a "straight White male" hasn't been in the prezzydent seat for the whole of yer "national" history. . .

amazing how powerful that "ghey Black male" has been, killed your whole nation in just one and a half terms!

let's get this ship right-ed and back to your reality!!

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 10:23 | 5414364 sleigher
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I think gridlock is probably the best outcome.  Everytime either side controls too much we get more bullshit laws fucking up our lives.  ACA for instance.

Red Team / Blue Team, in a country that believes these are our only choices, it is the best possible outcome.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 10:40 | 5414437 Ghordius
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"UK, Germany, France, Italy etc"

keep banking LULZ or substantiate a bit this claim. you throw in very complex polities into one pot by that. Germany, Italy but in part France, too, have a tradition of coalition governments. Their very constitutions are made for coalition politics, and mandate multi-party electoral systems

have a look into the politics of the country that you claim that hosts you

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 10:58 | 5414524 LULZBank
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I dont intend to write a thesis on constitutions and mandates for coalition governments and their differences in various countries.. All I can see is special interests having their way and people suffering.

If the State is supposed to safeguard people, then how they are the ones who always get the short end of a bargain?

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 11:09 | 5414566 Ghordius
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the meme you are propagating is not about that

it's about "an agenda" of the "real masters", which you brought into connection with "weak governments" which you brought - and this is the part I'm challenging you- in connection with "coalition politics". that's all, from my side. a simple case of asking you if you are throwing the baby with the dirty water

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 11:34 | 5414672 LULZBank
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You would think there are no real masters or decision makers in the background?

There written rules and then there are unwritten rules. So the what the constituion or a mandate says in writing does not mean much to me.

I look at the trends and the trend is strongly in favour of certian entities or special interests which would mean they are beyond politics and constitution, and that is the agenda.

Strong unified governments can make strong decisions while weak coalition governments can be cumbersome to manage, like not having all your dogs on one leash.

In third world countries, you get strong governments or even dictatorships, so there is little to debate about and managing the public opinion or getting all Representtives on board for a decision. They are meant to carry out the instructioons and facilitate exploitation as per the instructions of the real masters.

In advanced countries, where public opinion does matter a bit and representatives can have a say or else can turn whistleblowers or throw a monkey in the works, it is being lately preferred to have weak governemnts as the politicians are more focused on saving their own positions. Also there is growing infighting among the first world elites (and assasinations are not always favoured) so you get a coalition govt. More of elitists having more dogs in the fight for a pie that is getting smaller.

Just the way I see it, not saying its a demonstratable truth.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 10:11 | 5414311 whirling tword ...
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Who controls congress doesn't matter much when you have a lawless administration and you don't have a 2/3rd majority in the senate.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 10:20 | 5414352 D-2
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It's a relief to me knowing that now there wont be any more liberal judge appointments.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 12:45 | 5415023 Abaco
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Bullshit.  The crap the GOP was passing in the House to die in the Senate will now move from the Senate to the White House where it will be vetoed.  See? Progress.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:56 | 5414246 SofaPapa
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Any "folks" who voted out a donkey and voted in an elephant still have not seen through shit.  This will change absolutely nothing.  When real change comes we will know it, and we won't need the media to see or spin it.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 10:26 | 5414381 Cathartes Aura
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no, voters still have the final task - vote out the Black, and vote in the White.

THEN they can rest, kick back and know all will be fine, back to normal.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 11:37 | 5414700 Spastica Rex
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Is anyone keeping tabs on the next generation of Bushes? I mean the ones coming up after Jeb.

Why can't we just have a nice "War of the Roses" style conflict, choose a royal family, get rid of the democracy scam (America is not a democracy, after all), and get on with our feudal lives?

I'll go all dark horse and suggest that the Walton family should be chosen as the royal line of America.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 11:45 | 5414756 Conax
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The Kardashians, you big silly.

Check out dat ass, dat's da queen of murka!

Work it, work it, oh yeah.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 11:58 | 5414827 Cathartes Aura
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aye, the Walton brood would be a shoo-in - "self made" billionares, with some of the lowest "charitable foundations" support out there.

as to keepin' tabs on the Bushes?  this 3pg pdf from Bloomberg is dated (2011), but points to the direction the old white man party is headed. . .

The 57 ? year ? old Bush, now a senior adviser at Barclays Plc, is spearheading what he calls a “center ? right” campaign to rebuild a fractured relationship between his party and Latino voters, the fastest growing U.S. minority according to the Census Bureau. The newly formed Hispanic Leadership Network  ??  supported by former President George W. Bush’s political strategist, Karl Rove, and a team of allies  ??  aims to shift the Republican Party toward a so ? called big ? tent philosophy after a midterm campaign cycle featuring anti ? illegal immigration rhetoric from Tea Party

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 10:40 | 5414443 auntiesocial
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 the various US "Departments of Truth"

VOTE THE BUMS OUT SO WE CAN BRING IN THE NEW BUMS! WOO FUCKING HOO.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:48 | 5414218 pods
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Think of the government as a giant air tank. Pressure gets too high, kaboom.

Elections are the pressure release valve.  
Works like a charm.  

Or you can think of it as how uncomfortable you get when you ate too many beans, and are now sitting next to a pretty girl and just cannot relieve the pressure.  You feel so much better when you sneak out to the car quick to get something.

pods

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 10:26 | 5414386 LULZBank
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Imagine running a multi national business that changes its CEO and Board etc every 4 years.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 10:43 | 5414460 auntiesocial
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But then dear sir, you would be implying we are running this shit hole like an efficient corporation in the first place...

Imagine running a corporation set on defending someone else's agenda and kickbacks at the water cooler...

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 11:00 | 5414534 LULZBank
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Im trying to imply why we are not?

Or, maybe there is another body or individuals who are actually in the drivers seat while the politicians and .gov is just a front.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:41 | 5414185 Yes We Can. But...
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Dems took a huge hit because Dem POTUS is a feckless, sophomoric, incompetent, thoroughly dishonest boob to the extent that he is widely loathed by the citizenry.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:53 | 5414235 SoDamnMad
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That was calm. Why did you hold back?

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:49 | 5414220 bobnoxy
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He lost because he promised hope and change and delivered more of the same. If you only knew the policies but not who won in '08, would you have guessed McCain won?

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:38 | 5414171 JailBank
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I would blame complete incompetence and asshattery on the part of the man in charge.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:58 | 5414258 pods
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Asshattery= +1

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:36 | 5414166 firstdivision
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I'm pretty sure the majority of American Citizens lose every election.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:27 | 5414118 y3maxx
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...The NSA will update the personal files of the newly elected Republicans.
Got to keep all politicians in line...don't you know

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:28 | 5414133 Whoa Dammit
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Politics is a losers game, unless you are one or you own one.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:39 | 5414182 Jahbulon
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F&%k you Arius

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:46 | 5414204 Headbanger
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FUCK YOU AGAIN ARIUS!!

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 11:05 | 5414555 Woodyg
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Obama threw that election so he could get his republican controlled house and senate -
NOW the Oilybomber can do anything he wants - like the next phase of the financial coup d'état -
Besides the only thing obola cares about is his $350,000 per speech at some swanky golf resort for the monopolists and oligarchs that funded the Oilybomber since he was just a wee little lad fresh out of the BiS corp and sent to Chicago by the CIA.

Look for a nice BIG crash when Bank of America et al dump their derivitives on the gov books -
While the insociencent public once again thinks an election is going to change things For The Better for the masses.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:30 | 5414128 Baby Eating Dingo22
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Ahem.

You do know that many office supply stores offer a credit towards your purchase when you recycle said cartridges?

2-3 trillion back in the form of store credit at Staples is nothing to scoff at

Chinese will soon be awash in rubber bands

 

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:12 | 5414061 Arius
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Wrong!

 

It did not cost Obama a penny ... it cost America ... good luck to you all.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:16 | 5414078 101 years and c...
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i feel bad for the executive associates at JPM, GS, C, etc....

they will be spending their day getting the routing numbers and bank accounts of the newly elected puppets for future wealth transfers.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:21 | 5414100 Arius
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yeah well ... what a guy got to go through to make a few hunderds a year ...

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:23 | 5414107 junction
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Obama has no worries, Mitch McConnell will be around for the next two years to give him top grade coke.  Courtesy of McConnell's father-in-law, whose Liberian-flagged freighters carry hundreds of kilos of cocaine in their lockers from Columbia to the USA.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:51 | 5414223 eclectic syncretist
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And he can now legally light up a joint in the White House.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/dc-voters-titling-heavil...

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 10:10 | 5414298 RaceToTheBottom
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It brings new meaning to the phrase "Reefer Madness!"

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 10:33 | 5414407 Cathartes Aura
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has his fellow KY *cough* Congress-Critter Rand Paul voiced any "opinions" on his party-pal yet?

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:30 | 5414140 post turtle saver
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I recall mentioning months ago that these elections would be more important than the 2016 elections... look at the results

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:13 | 5414052 ekm1
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It is my view that either Obama changes foreign policy to align with Neocons, or he will be removed from office.

 

I am expecting Obama to pull a Carter and make nice with Pentagon for the last 2 years of the presidency, or it will be hell for him.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:14 | 5414071 Arius
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removed by whom?

 

He is voted by We the People.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:18 | 5414085 Oldwood
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Yes, but we the people can be some fickle shits.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:30 | 5414138 pods
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MIC releases some pics of him snorting a line off of Reggie's man thing through the NSA.

pods

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:34 | 5414161 LULZBank
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That would get the strongest lobby in US behind him. The gay lobby.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 11:45 | 5414749 PrecipiceWatching
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I didn't think any demographic could be more protected than blacks, but the Homosexual fascists have far exceeded even the ingrained, racist double standard enjoyed by blacks, for decades.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:41 | 5414189 Jahbulon
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Only the dumb a@# people.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 12:41 | 5415010 Kirk2NCC1701
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Arius = US Ari?

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:17 | 5414077 Oldwood
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There is a small chance that this situational awareness of economy may be reflected in our foreign policies as well. I don't think your classical "neocon" will have as much influence as you might think. These wars are fresh in everyone's minds now and the continual threats are numbing everyone out. Maybe, just maybe, we can have a little rational thinking for a change that allows us to act in OUR own interests, we the people.

I know, silly thought, but it my turn for a little "hope and change". My delusions persist.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:40 | 5414184 toady
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Yeah, I think the wars are probably the one area where Obama will let the red team run wild. With mcinsane at the helm of the war machine we'll be in Syria in a heartbeat.

Then Hillary can run as the anti-war candidate and get a peace prize.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 12:01 | 5414853 Grimaldus
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@toady

 

Constitutional conservatives do not interfere in the affairs of other sovereign governments. Only PROGRESSIVES do that kind of shit.

Hillary faces war crimes trials for her destruction of Libya and the birth of ISIS.

The only prize arch progressive criminal "Bloody Hands" Hillary will get is jail for life instead of execution.

Grimaldus

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 12:57 | 5415078 pods
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Constitutional Conservatives?

Are those like the famous Jackalope?

pods

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 10:59 | 5414536 tarsubil
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Wars are necessary to keep this whole shitshow going. Bringing the troops home would end the Empire instantly. You better believe the wars will continue.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:39 | 5414178 firstdivision
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Sooo...you're pro-nuking Russia and pro giving extreme jihadis moar weapons.  Yes, that sounds like the perfect thing that will help this country.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:10 | 5414053 TideFighter
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And..all the chillen' went to bed without their fried chicken. 

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 10:04 | 5414279 new game
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drippen ass greezy, ah just the way i like it, greez gas farts tomarrow...

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:12 | 5414054 summerof71
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Thank you Ben and Janet!

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:12 | 5414055 lordbyroniv
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Record Harvest, Comrade !!

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:11 | 5414056 Panic Mode
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He won't care. He will issue executive orders like ordering pizzas.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:37 | 5414170 Calmyourself
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WHATEVER DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT TASKED WITH ENFORCING THESE ORDERS SHALL BE DEFUNDED!  Power of the purse, no of course Republicans will not do this but a guy can dream of a real responsible legislative check on the presidency.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 10:23 | 5414363 NotApplicable
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Might as well be shooting heroin as to dream that dream.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 10:36 | 5414424 Calmyourself
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Pass the spike bro..  Your right of course, red/blue.  Pugs are red dems are blue both will fuck you,.  My skills as a poet leave something to be desired..

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:11 | 5414060 Oldwood
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So we finally have transparency?

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:47 | 5414211 toady
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If endless congressional fingerpointing is considered transparency, then yes!

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 11:41 | 5414726 Oldwood
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That's how the shit usually hits the fan. Just hoping.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:13 | 5414062 LULZBank
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If both parties are ONLY to serve people and working in People's best interest, why do we need to have 2 of them?

Im sure they can all work together on common goals?

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:31 | 5414144 Raoul_Luke
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To maintain the illusion of choice...

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:14 | 5414065 Last of the Mid...
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Basically it's just like I thought the day Obola went into office. Now we're 4 trillion down the road and nothing has been fixed. The same corrupt system is in place and nothing in the US will get better until the system is changed. Also expect HUGE give a ways from Dem's in '16 everything from Ipads to a Hillary BJ (shudder) to try and regain the mojo again through public deception.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:22 | 5414099 knightowl77
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4 trillion down the road....

actually it is closer to 8 trillion and not only has it not been fixxed, it is worse than 6 years ago...

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:28 | 5414131 LULZBank
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If exponential functions are any guide, watch what the next placeholder will do.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 10:02 | 5414266 pods
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By the time this is over Bush II will be the greatest president ever, just edging out Obama.

Worst president will be the one who has to use scientific notation on the currency.

pods

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 10:11 | 5414304 Ghordius
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so some president will be blamed in the future... for something President Nixon started in 1971?

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 10:15 | 5414333 pods
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I don't blame Nixon. He was tired of the gold outflows that Les Francais needed IIRC. Maybe it was England.  idk But there was a gigantic outflow of gold.

It was started by the creation of the FED, who could skew monetary policy and avoid the cyclical crashes endemic to fractional reserve currencies.  Of course, that just makes the crash bigger if they let it, or it eventually takes down the currency if they don't.

When it all goes kaboom, those surviving will thirst for reasoning, and we can only hope that they really see the reason, instead of falling for that next shiny new object (fractional reserve currency)

pods

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 10:28 | 5414378 Ghordius
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of course you don't blame Nixon. No American blames Nixon, at least not for the Nixon Shock. After all, it wasn't Americans that were told that a golden promise wasn't golden anymore

in fact, in 1971 Americans weren't even allowed to hold gold. It wasn't you that was... shocked

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 10:49 | 5414487 Cathartes Aura
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aye, no amrkn blames Nixon, not for working closely with Kissenger to "open China" for the Rothschild's, not for the "Nixon Shock" nor for his corrupt VP Agnew, nor Nixon's "stance" on civil rights and integration. . .

40+ years on, white-washed to a dull gloss.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 18:36 | 5416951 Vendetta
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No one wants to remember that he took US off the gold standard so he could accelerate the efforts in vietnam.  Fortunately, later on, China got our entire manufacturing sector and the US got a couple of panda bears. 

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:13 | 5414067 Peter Pan
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By the time he leaves the presidency people will be almost nostalgic about George Bush junior. 

On the other hand, the 1% got what they wanted....free money, rising stock markets and almost zero prosecution for all the frauds they had perpetrated.

As for the people, the word hope has now lost all respect and meaning.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 10:04 | 5414272 Ghordius
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before, send our beloved George W. Bush to us on the european continent. we'd love to show him some of our respect for him

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 10:23 | 5414360 RaceToTheBottom
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When do we vote for either a Clinton or a Bush?

That will produce the change we need!!!

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 10:32 | 5414408 StychoKiller
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So, will ya be tossing Oxfords, loafers or sneakers?  :>D

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 10:44 | 5414465 Ghordius
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nah, this is an Arab custom. we'll be throwing Freedom Fries as confetti, and stage a thriumph modeled after those of the Divine Emperor Caligula

in the train of the triumph, floats will be carrying all the WMD's that were found in Iraq, or at least models of them

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 10:26 | 5414369 Save_America1st
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well, it's been the dopes who had hope in the Gov-scum in the first place who let themselves get bamboozled for the last, hell, I dunno...20+ years since Reagan. 

I hope they've learned the lesson now that Gov-scum are sociopaths and traitors and can't be relied on or "hoped" for anything other than poverty.

I'm pretty sure they haven't learned their lesson yet though, because I don't think they were looking to learn a lesson in the first place.  They want free shit, and they will always want free shit.  So they'll just vote for the next scumbags who promise more free shit.

I consider myself a hardcore Constitutional, conservative, Libertarian type and I don't want jack squat from the Gov-scum...and you know what?  That's pretty much all we get from them anyway...jack and squat. 

People need to understand the R vs L paradigm is the evil that has divided and conquored America, and the rest of the world for that matter.  We aren't going to get a damn thing out of the majority of these Republi-tards who just took over all of CON-gress.

At best they will just be place-holders and won't use their power to shrink government, reduce spending, or lift all these repressive taxes like obamcare.

Right now both sides are in the locker rooms still best buddies and still scheming on how to continue the fleecing of the sheep-tards.  The narrative changes, but that's about all that really changes.

Maybe some of the socialism and Marxism will slow down for a while to lull the sheep-tards back to sleep...that's about the best we can expect out of these sociopaths. 

Sure, there are a few good people in office, but they're still heavily outnumbered.  And with scumbags like Mitch McConnell running the Senate the TEA party-type Libertarians aren't going to be able to exert much influence.  McConnell himself just stated that he wanted to "Crush the TEA party movement".  Need I say more about that piece of shit?  And he has plenty of backing in CON-gress from both so-called "sides" who are against any TEA party people.

Anyways...I don't see much changing in the next 2 years in any substantial way.  Then we're going to go through this whole racism, sexism, slavery, amnesty, homo, gender, bullshit freakshow fight all over again, because that's how they play the vast majority of the sheep-tards against each other who still don't understand they're being played like this over and over again.  It's pathetic.

We here who know what's going on need to just keep preparing for the end of the monetary system as we know it and keep stacking supplies.  Keep trying to wake some people up the best we can and educate them on what's really going on. 

Keep stacking phyzz...it's still on deep sale today and for as long as we can still get it.  That won't be for much longer as we all know it. 

I'd say we've got no more than 2 or 3 years before the SHTF for good in this country and indeed world-wide.  They will try to hold it together until after 2016 elections.  If we thought shit has been crazy since obama, just wait until after that piece of garbage is finally gone. 

Prepare accordingly.  It's going to be a seriously fucked up ride. 

 

 

 

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 18:51 | 5417013 Vendetta
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yep.  The word terrorism has taken on new meaning and its purveyors don't have to wear an american flag lapel pin to prove they're a member of the club that George Carlin warned us about.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:14 | 5414068 holdbuysell
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They're all collectivist Rhodesians controlled by the CFR. Nothing will change.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:30 | 5414143 blabam
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MIC can haz moar war?

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:14 | 5414069 Dick Gazinia
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Obama took a real ass-fuckin last night.  But with Reggie around that makes it just a normal tuesday

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:14 | 5414070 Dr. Engali
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Clearly the reason that we can't advance "the people's agenda" is because we don't have a large enough majority. Sending your contribution now to stop Obama's nation destroying progressive agenda. With your help 2016 is the year we move the nation forward..... Lol

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:16 | 5414080 TheFourthStooge-ing
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Green sharts! Moldylocks economy!

/kudlow

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 12:49 | 5415039 Kirk2NCC1701
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Let the Blame Games continue.  Here comes the next round [ding]

Meanwhile... Bread & Circus for the Unwashed Masses.  Bread & Circus.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:16 | 5414076 williambanzai7
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Look, a bright shiny object!

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:18 | 5414084 TheFourthStooge-ing
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Oooooh, sparkly....

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:18 | 5414079 TideFighter
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Harry Reid is done blackballing for Obpla, that in itself was worth the whole shebang. 

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:30 | 5414139 Bastiat
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Arpaio and his posse have been stting on something big , waiting until after the election so it wouldn't be dismissed as political.  Looking forward to it.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:36 | 5414163 Rip van Wrinkle
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If Arpaio is sitting on something big I suggest he blurts it out quick. Or we may find he's fallen from a 30th floor balcony.....or nail gunned himself......or been heart attacked.....

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 18:58 | 5417030 Vendetta
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What? Come one, is it pile of illegals that were panhandling the construction companies for paid under the table work in front of a home depot in Tempe at 4 am or what?

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:18 | 5414088 Bumbu Sauce
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Dog Eater Presser scheduled for this afternnon.  I bet he is coked to Colombia and back for this one.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:18 | 5414089 wmbz
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"As for everyone else, well there is 2016, and then 2018, and so on... because the lie must go on".

It really is easy to fool, fools and the voting public is slam full of them. Over and over and over again, yet they still can't figure out the scam right in front of their faces.

 


 

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:19 | 5414090 kowalli
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Things will go even worse. New masters -new taxes. I would expect a new war in 2 months.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 11:10 | 5414574 gatorengineer
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Hey, I am not even used to the old wars yet.....

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:21 | 5414094 TrulyStupid
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Meet the new boss... same as the old boss.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:20 | 5414096 disabledvet
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That's the KKK thats coming to town not "the right wing."  Surpring turn out as well.  "Con gusto."

Cross burnings, grand wizards...you folks are in for a real 'merican treat these next few years.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:23 | 5414104 Toolshed
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Wow, disabledvet. Did you learn to be such a racist in the military, or from your parents?

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:26 | 5414116 Oldwood
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You should be stumping for Obama with bullshit like that...or do you? There has never been a larger group of murderous racists than the democratic party. Please read a bit. Or are you for "protecting" the poor ignorant minorities. Exactly what democrat slave owners were telling us.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 10:19 | 5414350 overmedicatedun...
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diabledvet had severe head trama..let him prattle on like some ol drooling dementia patient ..he thinks elections matter. reptiles rule from ambush not in plain sight.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 10:34 | 5414419 Bunghole
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He got disabled when one of his pole sniffing buddies sneezed while felating in the barracks.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:20 | 5414097 B2u
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The next 2 years for Obama?  Lot's of trips to the golf course and luxury destinations around the world.  

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:25 | 5414110 Seasmoke
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Happiest guy in the country. ..... His part in the charade is now over. 

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:28 | 5414125 Wahooo
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His next two years will be run by michelle.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:38 | 5414179 Calmyourself
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Correction: Valerie, the she man..

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 10:00 | 5414260 toady
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And lotsa new commemorative veto pens.

Or not. Think he'll bend over and sign everything like Clinton and Carter? I guess that's the question. He'll probably sign everything except stuff related to Obamacare. Can't let'em mess with the legacy!

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 12:50 | 5415053 Kirk2NCC1701
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Yup, he's now on Cruise Control:  Cruising and Puttering.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:25 | 5414101 Chuck Knoblauch
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Smart money moved into war stocks recently.

Israel must be happy with this victory.

The decline into hell continues unabated.

Watch the R's manipulate their mandate.

The people want war, not an economic recovery.

That's how I'm playing it.

Gold and oil will be up again soon enough.

 

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 11:14 | 5414583 gatorengineer
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right on oil, not sure on gold.....

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 12:59 | 5415077 Kirk2NCC1701
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The ONLY way I see gold going up any time soon, is if... Russia demands to be paid in gold for its gas and oil.

It would also stop the FX attacks on its currency.  Russia can pump oil+gas a lot longer than the West can sell gold.

BTW, notice how the unlikely suspects -- the Chinese -- benefit the MOST from Russia's woes?  Would not be surprised if they are playing both sides of the game.  It would be the Chinese thing to do, since all foreigners are "devils" to them -- according to the "Xenophobe's Guide to the Chinese", which is a remarkably accurate series of books.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:22 | 5414102 Seasmoke
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Eric Cantor must be feeling like Bernie Madoff this morning.....The Black Sheep Jews of the family. 

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:29 | 5414129 Chuck Knoblauch
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.........................................

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 10:06 | 5414130 Chuck Knoblauch
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Israel still has McCain & Graham & Boehner & McConnell & Reid & Pelosi & Boxer & Feinstein.

The only thing that's changed in Congress is the majority's colors.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:23 | 5414103 Baby Eating Dingo22
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Well the key thing is, now the Reps have control, we know  brighter days lie ahead.

 

must I note the sarcasm?

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:37 | 5414176 AdvancingTime
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Damned if we do, damned if we don't. The important thing is we are damned either way!

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 19:27 | 5417183 Vendetta
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whack-a-mole contests are fun!

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:25 | 5414109 blindman
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Harvey Organ- By December Whole Thing Going to Collapse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZwSiHBxm0c
.
mark the calender.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:25 | 5414113 yogibear
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It doesn't matter, it's another reason to elevate the market.

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 09:25 | 5414117 youngman
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We have some pretty good Republican leaders emerging..but its not Mitch McConnel...he is the old guard..backroom deals...and such....we need to pass the consertative laws and do what a consertative does....and let Obama veto them if he wants...but comprimise...no way...we are in contol..lets do what the democrats do when they had control...they took over....I hope we do this..or we are done as a party...

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 10:01 | 5414265 negative rates
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Okay ur done, confidence rules.

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