Biden: Clear mandate on taxes from the vote.

[no_such_reality]

Oh my, 50-49 and it’s a clear mandate…

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/wp/2012/11/07/biden-hopes-for-gop-soul-searching/?hpid=z2

[no_such_reality]

Donald Trump snaps (no big surprise) http://now.msn.com/donald-trump-calls-for-revolution-against-obama?ocid=ansnow11

Did Rush survive, got to imagine he’s having a coronary.

[enron_by_the_sea]

[quote=no_such_reality]Oh my, 50-49 and it’s a clear mandate…
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I have long memory.

In another time and place there was another president who also won 50.x-48.x but claimed a mandate!

[quote]

President Bush proclaimed his election as evidence that Americans embrace his plans to reform Social Security, simplify the tax code, curb lawsuits and fight the war on terror, pledging Thursday to work in a bipartisan manner with “everyone who shares our goals.”
Bush staked his claim to a broad mandate and announced his top priorities at a post-election news conference, saying his 3.5 million vote victory had won him political capital that he would spend enacting his conservative agenda.
“I earned capital in this campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it,” Bush told reporters. “It is my style.”

[/quote]

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Bush-claims-mandate-sets-2nd-term-goals-I-2637116.php#ixzz2BZrvbs22

[an]

[quote=enron_by_the_sea][quote=no_such_reality]Oh my, 50-49 and it’s a clear mandate…
[/quote]

I have long memory.

In another time and place there was another president who also won 50.x-48.x but claimed a mandate!

[quote]

President Bush proclaimed his election as evidence that Americans embrace his plans to reform Social Security, simplify the tax code, curb lawsuits and fight the war on terror, pledging Thursday to work in a bipartisan manner with “everyone who shares our goals.”
Bush staked his claim to a broad mandate and announced his top priorities at a post-election news conference, saying his 3.5 million vote victory had won him political capital that he would spend enacting his conservative agenda.
“I earned capital in this campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it,” Bush told reporters. “It is my style.”

[/quote]

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Bush-claims-mandate-sets-2nd-term-goals-I-2637116.php#ixzz2BZrvbs22%5B/quote%5D
And we all know how that turned out.

[paulflorez]

[quote=AN]And we all know how that turned out.[/quote]

Which is why the current President is in the process of bringing all of Bush’s wars to an end as well as letting some of Bush’s tax cuts expire. Neither of those things turned out that great.

[an]

[quote=paulflorez][quote=AN]And we all know how that turned out.[/quote]

Which is why the current President is in the process of bringing all of Bush’s wars to an end as well as letting some of Bush’s tax cuts expire. Neither of those things turned out that great.[/quote]So, this time, the “mandate” is different than the last “mandate”?

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