We shouldn’t be surprised at PEBO, after all, adDave did conceed he’d do or say anything to get elected.

Come on, TGC. Serrano has proposing to lift the 22nd Amendment for years. And some Republican did it before him. By which I mean, there’s no necessary connection with Obama here.

I.e., no screeching or insults, just the facts. And then TGC or somebody would have replied:

OK, but it has a much better chance of moving forward now, doesn’t it? It fits right in with the general mindless adulation of Obama. I bet lots of other Democrats will get on board with it, now that it would benefit him.

And ADD might have further replied:

Well, that’s your bet, then.

But ADD didn’t want such an exchange. No fun.

You could deny that there’s any similarity than that and Obama’s announced hopes of creating a quasi-military, mandatory youth “service” corps, like Nazi Germany once did. You could deny that the Democratic Party is the party of drafting and enslaving people. You could pretend that Democrat Rangel’s attempts, which never had a chance while Republicans were in power, bear no connection to any “Obama plot”, even though they stand a slightly better chance of being passed (and signed) now, on Obama’s and the Democrats’ watch.

Just trying to help with a constructive suggestion.

You’re right about one thing only: You did pull your usual “Look over there! An old mistake from a totally inconsequential Republican invalidates the correctness of TGC’s prediction!” bullsh*ts with some facts / links for once. That is rare indeed, for you. Consider that aspect acknowledged.

On term limits – from the right…

All of which has *ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WHATSOEVER* to do with the fact that, in this blog thread, and in this moment in 2009:

- TGC was right in predicting Democrats would want to lift them for the Dear Leader
- Rather than either acknowledge the point or answer the point, ADD stepped in with his standard no-class insults and “Look over there!” distractions.

it seems like the biggest difference of opinion we have is whether the 1938 spike in unemployment was caused by roosevelt balancing the budget in 1937, or by some other amalgamation of factors that you identify. regardless of the cause, unemployment continued to decline in subsequent years when roosevelt resumed deficit spending. on these facts, i just dont buy GPW’s argument. be nice.

http://www.oilforimmigration.org/facts/?p=783

“In 1987, during Reagan’s term of office, Earl Michener, R-Mich., also proposed a repeal of the 22nd Amendment.”

http://www.oilforimmigration.org/facts/?p=754

The second article is similar to what I said in a filtered comment. According to the source that V posted Serrano has been doing this since 1997. Hardly an Obama plot.

- hike taxes massively (Somin seems to omit this)
- sign the Smoot-Hawley tariff which destroyed international trade
- establish new government agencies to hand out loans and… bailouts
- hike “relief” spending and run deficits that we would now call “stimulative”.

Sound familiar? Roosevelt merely extended and intensified Hoover’s disastrous policies, and add some perverted new ones like the laws V talked about, where you’d be prosecuted for giving consumers a better price on your product.

Another parallel to today: In the 1932 campaign, Roosevelt denounced Hoover for overspending and promised to enact a balanced budget. In other words: Roosevelt basically lied, selling himself as a prudent centrist. Would the latter remind you of anyone elected recently?

Yes, which is why so many of the rich are Democrats. Socialist policies essentially freeze everyone into whatever social class they are born into. Hence, the rich and privileged don’t have to worry about losing their status to up-and-coming entrepreneurs.

Chad also leaves out that in 1936, FDR raised marginal tax rates to 79% of income, and the Social Security payroll tax began in 1937. Those probably had a pretty big impact on unemployment in 1937.

The Roosevelt Administration reacted [to the Roosevelt Recession] by launching a rhetorical campaign against monopoly power… [it] was not [economically] effective, and the attack ended once World War II began and corporate energies had to be directed to winning the war… employment did not regain the 1937 level until the war boom began in late 1940.

With the Depression proper ending in 1943, according to most economists. Roosevelt took a severe recession and, by terrible policy, stretched it out for 10 years until only a World War finally ended it.

in 1938, unemployment spiked up to 19% after roosevelt decreased spending in order to balance the budget.

Nope. First, remember unemployment is a lagging indicator; it began spiking in 1937, peaking early in 1938. (As Wikipedia puts it, “personal income was only 15% lower than it had been at the peak in 1937″. Only!!!) Second, its cause wasn’t Roosevelt cutting the budget; its cause was the anti-freedom and anti-production policies Roosevelt had been following throughout the Depression, making it a ‘Great’ one. See #15 by V the K, and #16 by John W.

in subsequent years, the spending remained high and unemployment continued to decline

Yeah… like the 1940s, with World War 2. (No thanks on having a repeat, BTW.)

The Roosevelt Administration was, economically, the worst in United States history. They intensified bad policies of Hoover and added more of their own, stretching out the Depression to 1942-3.

TGC, if you dared to take an honest look in the mirror you would see a screeching liberal in the week leading up to W’s taking office. You look just as ridiculous and are just as completely wrong. It’s too bad that our tradition of the people electing their President is so disturbing to you. Four years is a lot of Depends, maybe you should just get over it.

Wha….?? Sorry. I can’t read dumbass. Once more, in English, please.

Obama may well lose Pakistan to Islamists,

That’s pronounced Pock-eeee-stahn, you racist bigot!

But trickle up poverty, as proposed by Comrade Obamam, will save us all, eh?

increased the poor in this country to where they’ve never recovered…

And the liberal’s “war on poverty”, which has taken 40+ years and trillions of dollars has done….what…exactly?

Here, I’ll make it simple for you. Why are liberal bastions like California, New Orleans, Detroit, NYC etc. full of poor people? Why do liberals shove them out of the way (Denver, DC etc) before their limousines arrive? If liberalism is so f*cking great, why are they ass deep in po’ folks?