It's time to step up to the plate for our President. I'm damn mad and want to send the

[Ninga]

GOP a loud message. NOW not later.



www.consortiumnews.com


Robert Parry

Only a few weeks into Barack Obama’s presidency, a threatening political and media dynamic has rushed to the fore cutting short a very brief honeymoon.



The Republicans and their right-wing media allies are doing whatever they can to strangle the Obama phenomenon in its cradle; the mainstream media pundits are stressing the negative so they don’t get called “in the tank for Obama”; and the Democrats are shying away from holding the Bush-Cheney administration accountable for its crimes.

None of these developments is particularly surprising. Indeed, they track closely to the political-media pattern that took shape the last time a young Democrat won the White House, when Bill Clinton became President in 1993.

Then, the dispirited Republicans got a lift from the loud voice of a younger Rush Limbaugh who used his popular three-hour radio show to pillory Bill and Hillary Clinton. That, in turn, encouraged the congressional Republicans to vote as a bloc against President Clinton’s budget and economic plan ......snip........

[Window]

1. I agree. We need to fight back hard and fast. The pukes will do

anything they can to undermine President Obama at every turn.

[K Gardner]

2. "trying to strangle the Obama phenomenon in its cradle." Bingo. K&R

[Ninga]

3. I too recognize that insidious statement. My problem is that I become paralyzed with

the inability to go beyond my anger and frustration.

We need to gather all of the people who attended the inauguration in DC, to return to the scene and camp on the door step of the evil, evil GOP.