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In reply to the discussion: Unprecedented unity by EmoProg FireBaggers [View all]BluegrassStateBlues
(881 posts)Those in opposition were merely useful idiots that helped make it appear to all the right people that the President meant business.
The threat of military action was what solved the Syrian crisis and resulted in them giving up their chemical weapons.
The JP Morgan fine was a result of Eric Holder, an Obama appointee and Larry Summers was never even being considered. In politics, 'anonymous White House official' usually means bullshit.
But if it makes you feel good to think these "EmoProg Firebaggers," whatever they are, have any kind of meaningful influence or a monopoly on good ideas... that's just fine. Just be sure to vote in 2014 and 2016 for the goddamn candidates we tell you to vote for after the padded room candidates are eliminated in the primaries.