Santorum
Ladies and gentlemen, the future president of the United States. No, not Santorum. He's toast, whatever he'd have you believe. I'm referring to the young fella in the foreground, little Oliver, who couldn't look less thrilled to be at a presidential rally if you gave him extra Smarties.
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Yahoo! Politics (4 months ago | reply)
Great photo! Would love to see it in the Election 2012 pool.
Best,
Phoebe
Deborahwrites1 (4 months ago | reply)
Have conservative females ever heard of hair products?
richluscombe (4 months ago | reply)
This photo was invited and added to the Election 2012 group.
change 60 (4 months ago | reply)
i beiivie he has a chance to win he looking good
Brooklyn Charlie (4 months ago | reply)
He looks like Haley Barbour.
lantenec (4 months ago | reply)
Why so serious...?
richluscombe (4 months ago | reply)
It was past nap time, he wanted milk, his teddy bear and his crib. That's why he was grumpy. As for my boy Ollie, I'm not sure what his problem was.
hair09 (3 months ago | reply)
What are obama's qualification to be a president??? give the answer to yourself.
Libertarianmajority (3 months ago | reply)
Electing a Libertarian Party majority, or even a minority, by write-in, if necessary and, where possible, to help Ron Paul or Lee Wrights or another Libertarian nominee as President, with the other as Vice President and, with a Libertarian cabinet, can ensure ongoing success in restoring individual Liberty to every American to freely create his or her own and our country's entrepreneurial prosperity. That individual, entrepreneurial prosperity can be THE real way to create equality of opportunity and more equal well-being for all. Individual Liberty allows for self- and voluntary common defense, more affordable health, economic (true) morality, and therefore, harmony and peace--necessarily by allowing the same for all others.
Individual Liberty is THE solution for our individual and America's restoration, instead of discriminatory wage-slavery and war to keep the Republican elites and their big enterprises in their exclusive privileges or, instead of dependency on the Democrats' welfare plantation along with gratuitous regulations to keep individuals from becoming free, innovative, entrepreneurial competitors of the elites. Voting for these Libertarian candidates can begin to build that Libertarian presence in our government:
Connecticut US Senate Paul Passarelli
Connecticut 2nd Dist. Congress Daniel Reale
Indiana US Senate Andrew Horning
richluscombe (3 months ago | reply)
Thank you, dear Senators and Congressman, for your comment. But my boy is only two, he can't vote yet, and has way more individual liberty than he probably ought to have at his age, especially in the ice cream department.
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Waldo7711 (2 months ago | reply)
Santorum should get out, if he makes a stupid comment about Romney and the one in the White house as equals it shows he is brain dead and is a Obama team player. What an idiot.
Sander de Wijs (2 months ago | reply)
Obama's qualifications are:
being calm, cool and collected in the face of the most vicious onslaught on a president EVER.
Also:
Banking and Financial Reform
1. BROAD POLICY:
2. Established the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. ref
3. Established President’s Advisory Council on Financial Capability to assist in financial education for all Americans. ref, ref , ref
4. Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010. ref, ref
5. Dodd-Frank (DF) Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the biggest financial reform law since the Great Depression. ref
6. Managed the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) ref
7. Assigned a Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program Act of 2009. ref
8. Pension relief Act of 2010. ref
9. Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act. ref, ref
10. Played a lead role in G-20 Summit re: financial crisis. ref
11. Reformed deferral rules to curb tax advantages for investing overseas. ref
12. Established new offshore investment policy that promotes in-sourcing. ref, ref
# FUNDING:
# Cut salaries for 65 bailout executives (Pay Czar). ref
# Banks have repaid 75% of TARP funds, bringing the cost down to $89B as of June 2010. ref
# Closed offshore tax safe havens, tax credit loopholes. ref , ref , ref
# TARGETED ACTIONS:
# Created the Financial Stability Oversight Council to monitor stability of the financial system and individual firms (DF). ref
# New requirements for reporting financial data (DF). ref
# Created self-funded Office of Financial Research (OFR) to collect information from financial firms (DF). ref
# OFR employees must wait a year before working for certain financial firms. ref
# Provided for orderly liquidation of financial companies (DF). ref
# Limited trading activities of banks (Volcker Rule) beginning 2 yrs after passage (DF). ref
# Swaps Pushout Rule prevented federal assistance to swaps (including derivatives) traders (DF). ref
# Derivatives must be traded transparently through a clearing house (DF). ref
# Defined the amount and nature of assets required to meet capital requirements (DF). ref
# Originators of asset-backed securities must retain 5% ownership/risk (DF). ref
# Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (DF). ref
# Stronger client fiduciary duty for broker-dealers (DF). ref
# Higher standards for securities advertising and disclosures (DF). ref
# Expanded “insider loans” (DF). ref
# Higher standards for sytemically important ($50 billion assets+) institutions, including annual stress tests and restrictions on bank acquisitions (DF). ref
# Executive compensation must be determined by an independent committee (DF). ref
# Issued compensation guidelines for bank executive salary and bonuses. ref , ref
# Financial agencies must establish Offices of Women and Minorities to promote more diverse hiring (DF). ref
# Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure Act. ref, ref
# Credit CARD Technical Corrections Act of 2009. ref
# Established a credit card bill of rights. ref
# Reformed credit card swipe fees. ref
# Created new criminal penalties for mortgage fraud. ref
# Congress pursued Goldman Sachs for securities violations. ref
# Permanently extended Research and Experimentation Tax Credit for domestic investments. ref
# RESULTS:
# (Treasury) Sold 1.5 billion shares of Citigroup at a profit. ref
# G-20 summit produced a $1.1 trillion deal to combat the global financial crisis. ref
# Negotiated deal with Swiss banks to permit US government to gain access to records of tax evaders and criminals. ref
# Financial reform has ‘strongest consumer financial protections in history.’ ref
# BROAD POLICY:
# Introduced Oil Spill Recovery Bill to remove oil company liability cap. ref ref
# Created offshore drilling safety review board. ref
# Created new drilling agency with investigative arm. ref
# Ended previous practice of having White House aides rewrite scientific and environmental rules, regulations and reports. ref
# FUNDING:
# Ordered $20 billion escrow fund by BP to reimburse lost incomes in Gulf. ref
# Ordered $100 million to compensate those hurt by drilling moratorium. ref
# TARGETED ACTIONS:
# Dismantled the Minerals Management Service, cutting ties between industry and government. ref , ref
# Mandated new safety rules for offshore drilling. ref
# Opened civil and criminal investigations into Gulf oil spill. ref, ref
# (Congress) Launched investigation into gas drilling practices. ref
# Established the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling. ref
# Amended Oil Pollution Act of 1990 authorizing advances from Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. ref
# Expanded oil rig workers’ families abilities to sue and recover. ref
# Fined BP subsidiary $5.2 million for false reporting. ref
# (EPA) Barred Texas’ authority to issue refinery operating permits. ref
Sander de Wijs (2 months ago | reply)
Ron Paul wants to let an uninsured person die, if they are in a life threatening situation! What a doctor!
"Pay me first, or die!"
ya gotta love that!
Ron Paul would solve poverty by letting all the poor die of starvation.
phere1 (2 months ago | reply)
Ron Paul for Liberty and Justice for ALL!!!!!