Reply #63: Prove to me that they don't adhere to FISA. Even Bush started adhering to it after awhile.

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The fact that you complained about wiretapping vs warrantless wiretapping shows me that you don't even understand what the issue was to begin with. You are just spouting off phrases about things that you know very little about, as a lot of people around here tend to do these days. I don't cut and paste talking points. People like you don't deserve blue links. You don't read them and thats why you don't actually know anything.

Yes, people were laid off and we have 9% unemployment. None of your petty grievances that you've mentioned have anything to do with that. More drilling kills the environment, but it doesnt lay people off. Extending the Bush tax cuts runs up the deficit, but it doesn't lay people off. As a matter of fact, the compromise Obama made to get unemployment benefits extended and the middle class tax cuts extended are extremely stimulative measures because it puts money in the pockets of people who spend it, the lower and middle class income folks. That does a whole hell of a lot more to create jobs than the alternative which would have been to let the damn things expire with no unemployment extension and no additional tax relief for middle class incomes. That sounds like what you would have done had you been President which means you would have been responsible for more layoffs, a rise in middle class taxes, and a halt to extending unemployment benefits further. That lack of stimulus would have caused more layoffs, layoffs that President Obama averted by finding a way to get Congress to continue those middle class oriented measures of relief. You lose.