His signature achievement:
"This economic mandate represents a wholly novel and potentially unbounded assertion of congressional authority: the ability to compel Americans to purchase an expensive health insurance product they have elected not to buy, and to make them re-purchase that insurance product every month for their entire lives," a divided three-judge panel said.
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The three-judge panel that made the ruling was comprised of two Democrats.
First ever Credit Downgrade:
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2 of the 10 largest drops in the history of the dow in the last 5 days:
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Unprecedented federal debt:
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Your signature legislative achievement crumbling before your eyes:
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But Obama is awesome!
The three-judge panel that made the ruling was comprised of two Democrats.
First ever Credit Downgrade:
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A credit downgrade? Now how much stock (no pun) do you put in rating agencies who are PAID to provide those ratings. Their very existence depends on revenues to rate financial instruments from the companies that create/provide them. No conflict of interest there!
They rated CDO's (i.e. the derivatives that were comprised of all the subprime mortgages that couldn't be paid), TRIPLE A right up until the collapse of Lehman Brothers and AIG who leveraged their firms on these 'reverse-bets' which lead to the global financial crises. Does anyone, with any ounce of integrity or intellect, still put stock in these ratings?
2 of the 10 largest drops in the history of the dow in the last 5 days:
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In comparison, a remarkable SEVEN of the 10 biggest drops came under the president that preceded this one. That's only 3.5 times as many (and I won't even bother going outside of the top ten). Nothing significant there!
Unprecedented federal debt:
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Sounds like a good argument. Until you analyze where the debt came from and who saddled the overwhelming majority of his administration with it. He's responsible for some of it but the man who is sipping mint juleps on a Texas ranch may have had something to do with the overwhelming majority of it:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/obamas-and-bushs-effect-on-the-deficit-in-one-graph/2011/07/25/gIQAELOrYI_blog.html
Your signature legislative achievement crumbling before your eyes: Check Crumbling? Did you not think this administration didn't fully expect this and wasn't prepared for legal challenges? Or have you not, as mentioned previously, heard of the Supreme Court of the United State, who will ultimately decide on its constitutionality? Also, have you not heard of one of the biggest UNFUNDED entitlements in the history of the federal government (unfunded being the key word when speaking about the deficit issue in this country), that NO ONE mentions anymore, which has a present value of $15.5 trillion? It is called MEDICARE PART D and was passed, again under the previous administration. I'll be the bank teller in this one: SECURITY! Arrest this child and remove him from the premises! NEXT!