Cable News Ratings for Friday, December 28, 2012

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1. Doug Z

   Posted January 2, 2013 at 8:32 AM

   Rather than take the map down following the public uproar, the executive board at the Journal News has decided to “stick to their guns” and double-down on their original decision, as they have said a map listing all pistol permit holders in Putnam County will soon to be posted.

2. Doug Z

   Posted January 2, 2013 at 8:33 AM

   MONEY’S NO OBJECT: Obama heads back to Hawaii — at taxpayer cost of $7 million…

3. Ratboy

   Posted January 2, 2013 at 8:38 AM

   @ Honestly you two, I kid you not, I have niot watched Fox or any national news since the election

   I now watch Brett at 6 and sometimes OReilly but that is it. When the truth is reported and then nothing done about it there is no sense is looking for the truth. Fast and Furious, and Bengazi are just a couple examples of our leader sweeping things under the rug for his own political gain. I will stick to Duck dynasty, Swamp People, Gold Rush, and Storage Wars. At least those shows give us people working hard to make a living and not looking for hand outs!

4. Ratboy

   Posted January 2, 2013 at 8:41 AM

   @ Doug Z
   Posted January 2, 2013 at 8:33 AM
   MONEY’S NO OBJECT: Obama heads back to Hawaii — at taxpayer cost of $7 million

   At the rate he spends OUR money, we dont have to worry about the 2016 elections because we will be just like his Chrysler stimulus………….someone else will own us and they will be foreign!!

5. Doug Z

   Posted January 2, 2013 at 8:42 AM

   Left town without signing bill!

6. Doug Z

   Posted January 2, 2013 at 8:44 AM

   Ratboy

   republicans voted for this . It is their baby toooooooooooo

7. Ratboy

   Posted January 2, 2013 at 8:46 AM

   He could not even wait to finish the job!!!

   MONEY’S NO OBJECT: Obama heads back to Hawaii — at taxpayer cost of $7 million…

   Left town without signing bill!

8. Doug Z

   Posted January 2, 2013 at 8:54 AM

   The deficit con: The big daddy. Despite the lawmakers’ claims that the debate has been about closing the federal deficit and reducing the federal debt, none of the negotiating over the past weeks has dealt with those issues. Indeed, the tax and spending package will widen the deficit by some $4 trillion over 10 years, compared with what would happen if the tax increases and spending cuts mandated by existing law were implemented.

9. Doug Z

   Posted January 2, 2013 at 8:55 AM

   The shared sacrifice con: If the goal has been for an approach to deficit cutting balanced among economic strata — and Democrats and Republicans both pay lip service to this notion — then the final deal is a fraud. Every working person earning up to $113,700 in wages this year will shoulder an instant tax increase of 2%. That’s because the payroll tax holiday enacted in 2010 is expiring.

10. Doug Z

    Posted January 2, 2013 at 8:59 AM

    The debt ceiling con: The original of this con is what put us at the fiscal cliff in the first place, for the automated spending cuts being dealt with now were put in place as the GOP’s price to raise the federal debt ceiling and stave off a government default in 2011. The debt ceiling was not designed as a constraint when it was created in 1917 — it was convenient blanket authority for the Treasury to issue debt so that Congress wouldn’t have to vote permission each time a new bond had to be floated.

11. Matthew

    Posted January 2, 2013 at 9:12 AM

    republicans voted for this . It is their baby toooooooooooo

    Not only that, but it’s entirely self-inflicted, which is really quite amazing; I always thought it was the Democrats that are terrible negotiators. The Grand Bargain, amongst other things, included cuts to government retirement plans, cuts to PBGC, cuts to SNAP, cuts to conservation programs, cuts to Fannie/Freddie. If you hold out for 100% of what you want, without the leverage to actually attain 100% of what you want, then you’re bound to end up with nothing.

    I don’t know what it is about everything the modern Congress (both parties) does, where everything has to be some gigantic, idealistic deal, rather than a series of pragmatic solutions, but it’s really freaking ludicrous. We are being governed by children

12. d.d

    Posted January 2, 2013 at 9:39 AM

    RedBarSoup

    Now, now, R.B.S., don’t get your panties in a wad. The House is committed to getting the Sandy relief bill passed this month. FEMA still has roughly $5.4 billion in reserve.

    Where was this money the Senate allocated going besides to Sandy relief ?

    Here’s a sampling .

    1. Community Development Block Grants

    2. Big Business Loans

    3. Emergency Global Warming Mitigation

    4. AMTRAK Pork

    5. Guess Work. Many of the provisions include transfer authority, but the $200 million for the National Institute of Health (NIH)

    6. Feds First. As outlined in the administration’s request, roughly $3 billion would go toward replacing or repairing federal assets

    7. Willful Fiscal Negligence. When you “remove unnecessary items from the Administration’s request, and you’re left with a request of $12.8 billion in supplemental funds

    8. No Spending Offsets. America’s dire fiscal condition necessitates any additional spending be offset with spending reductions

    Everyone agrees Sandy victims need help, but, loading bills with sweeteners slows help down. I wish Congress would put a stop to this practice. My senatators & House rep hear from me each & every time they do this.

13. Raz

    Posted January 2, 2013 at 9:47 AM

    Red soup, had that bill not been such a big pork sandwich, it would have been voted through. But these idiots packed it full and then whined because it didnt get passed. The speaker did the right thing.

14. Bobbyv

    Posted January 2, 2013 at 10:00 AM

    If the bill did not pass the R’s would have gotten the blame, they had no choice but to pass it. If they are smart, and really do not believe it will be good they should frame the discussion that way.

15. Doug Z

    Posted January 2, 2013 at 10:04 AM

    Obama’s Tax Evaders of the Year
    It’s a Golden Pass for liberal millionaires and billionaires who support higher Obama taxes for everyone but themselves. Meet the Democratic tax evaders of the year.

    *GOOGLE. The left-wing Internet giant provided Silicon Valley’s biggest campaign finance boost to Obama, with individual employee donations supporting the tax-hiking candidate by a ratio of more than 31-to-one.
    In December, Google’s Netherlands subsidiary disclosed in a tax filing that it had shifted nearly $10 billion in revenues to a Bermuda shell company. That’s “almost double the total from three years before,” according to Bloomberg News. In response to criticism,

16. usa8888

    Posted January 2, 2013 at 10:05 AM

    Doug Z–yes, the right wing t-bags have finally been put in their place as their backward thinking was overridden by the GOP moderates and the dems. The wealthy will finally be paying a fairer share of taxes as their rates are the lowest in 60 years and they have not created jobs in many years. The right wingers have finally dropped the term “job creators” as it relates to the rich during a bad recession or depression. Anyone with an ounce of economic sense knows the rich don’t create jobs during a bad recession or depression and we have seen this to be empirically true over the past years. The right wing wanted to raise taxes for the middle class, not extend unemployment payments, the child tax credit, and reduce Social Security payments over time…but logic prevailed and the t-bags were defeated. They stand to lose more seats next election. It is sad to watch senators like McCain (who have been moderate throughout their careers)prostitute themselves to right wing philosophies in order to be re-elected. But we can anticipate the uneducated far right to try to give the US economy another debt downgrade soon–their backward thinking never stops….

17. Doug Z

    Posted January 2, 2013 at 10:05 AM

    *The Washington Post. Speaking of media lapdogs, this newspaper sanctimoniously supported Obama for president and singled out his support for “revenue [tax] increases.”

    The privileged wealthy barons at the Washington Post, however, increased that inequality at the end of the year when they joined a growing number of companies who are paying 2013 dividends in 2012 to protect investors from paying higher Obama taxes on dividend income.

18. Doug Z

    Posted January 2, 2013 at 10:06 AM

    Bonus irony: The $70 million year-end dividend payment will be a windfall for other “higher taxes for thee, but not for me” Obama supporters, including donor Warren Buffet’s firm Berkshire Hathaway. According to the Associated Press, “Berkshire is its largest shareholder with an estimated 1.7 million shares, which means it could
    get a roughly $17 million dividend payment.”

19. usa8888

    Posted January 2, 2013 at 10:07 AM

    Doug Z–can you get us a copy of Romney’s last 10 years of tax returns? We want to see how close to zero he has been paying……

20. Doug Z

    Posted January 2, 2013 at 10:08 AM

    Costco. The mega-retailer’s co-founder, Jim Sinegal, is a lifelong Democrat and top Obama fundraiser. He crusaded aggressively for Obamacare and sent out a campaign dispatch defending his candidate from criticism over his “you didn’t build that remarks.”

    Like the Washington Post, the Costco Board of Directors voted to pay special $7 per share year-end dividends to avoid higher taxes. In addition, Costco will borrow $3.5 billion to finance the payout, according to the Wall Street Journal. Higher taxes, more debt. They built that.