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Wed Jan-20-10 01:16 PM
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President Obama spent the first year reaching out to rethuglicons |
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i hope he spends the next three telling them to go fuck themselves.
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Wed Jan-20-10 01:22 PM
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1. He can't - he has to reach out to Snowe AND Collins to get ANYTHING passed |
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Telling them to go fuck themselves means he will be a Do-Nothing President.
Which is excatly what the RW wants.
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Wed Jan-20-10 01:23 PM
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2. in your opinion....fuck them |
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Wed Jan-20-10 01:24 PM
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Wed Jan-20-10 01:31 PM
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12. he reached out to them this year....look what he got |
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Wed Jan-20-10 01:34 PM
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14. He got demonization from his own party - and they carried the RW's water |
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Wed Jan-20-10 01:35 PM
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15. ho got nothing from the right..... |
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Wed Jan-20-10 01:36 PM
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16. He got demonization from the right and the left |
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and now we have ourselves a Scott Brown
woopeee!!111
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Wed Jan-20-10 02:26 PM
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21. That's what happens when you try straddling the fence - |
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you get it from BOTH sides.
Brown would NEVER have been elected if democrats had been united on liberal principles, rather than selling out to the republicans. All that did was show the independents that the Dems can't get anything done.
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Wed Jan-20-10 02:30 PM
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26. Do you expect him to act differently? |
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Edited on Wed Jan-20-10 02:31 PM by peace frog
Obama believes in One America, not a Democratic or Republican America. He will worship at the alter of bipartisanship even as he is escorted out of the WH by the new Republican president in 2013.
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Wed Jan-20-10 01:24 PM
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5. Telling them to go fuck themselves is what the American people want. |
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If they want to be obstructionist, it'll blow back in their faces. The Republicans are getting what they want already.
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Wed Jan-20-10 01:25 PM
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8. It blew back in their faces last night in Boston |
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Wed Jan-20-10 01:25 PM
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9. And then after the next election it will be Snowe and Collins and McCain |
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Edited on Wed Jan-20-10 01:26 PM by jgraz
And then Snowe and Collins and McCain and Grassley.
And then...
(Which, btw, is *really* what the right wing -- of both parties -- wants)
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Wed Jan-20-10 01:30 PM
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11. Snowe is up for election in 2012 - Maine folks are watching her very closely |
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Edited on Wed Jan-20-10 01:30 PM by jpak
if she doesn't work with Obama, Maine Dems - who are the ones that reelect her - will make her reeelection doubtful.
and she already has a teabagger problem - I hope they run a Libertarian agaisnt her...
rock meet hard place
(note Maine isn't Mass. - we cut ourselves loose of that shit back in 1819)
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Wed Jan-20-10 01:37 PM
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17. So he made his bed, and now he has to lie in it. |
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Wed Jan-20-10 02:07 PM
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19. yes - the Bad Obama MUST fail! |
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Wed Jan-20-10 02:29 PM
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25. Just summarizing your remarks |
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but what you're up to now...well I'm sure you think it's profound.
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Wed Jan-20-10 02:28 PM
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24. I dare say the Snowe/Collins agenda is nothing to get excited about |
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Wed Jan-20-10 01:23 PM
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3. Maybe he could practice on Rahm... |
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Wed Jan-20-10 01:27 PM
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Wed Jan-20-10 01:24 PM
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6. I think its time he tried reaching out to liberals |
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.......before they write him off completely.
Talk is cheap, he needs to be the President they thought they were voting for.
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Wed Jan-20-10 01:24 PM
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7. He is committed to governing across the aisle, to the point of giving away anything our |
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side may want. Is there anyone here who thinks he will change his approach one iota?
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Wed Jan-20-10 01:32 PM
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13. ...otherwise he'll leave office a disgraced DINO. |
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Oh wait, didn't Bill Clinton spend the greater part of his times in office fighting with a Republican Congress?
Just like George W. Bush won the presidency albeit with an asterisk explaining some election discrepancies, Obama is a liberal with an asterisk explaining a lot of right-wing accommodations.
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Wed Jan-20-10 01:48 PM
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18. Insanity is doing the same thing but expecting different results. Using the same people who |
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repeatedly hand you failure is pretty insane, too.
Barack, perhaps now is a good time to re-evaluate your staff and the shitty advice they've been giving you to act like a Moderate.
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Wed Jan-20-10 02:12 PM
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20. Not even a moderate. They at least used to give us a little speech |
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Edited on Wed Jan-20-10 02:13 PM by old mark
on occasion. He tells us to fall in and shut up.
Obama started to run with the GOP from the beginning, right after we elected him as a Democrat. He is a master politician, and as someone pointed out elsewhere, he can sell snow to eskimos.
He certainly seems to have sold a lot of it to us. One of the few things I still like about Obama is that he is making the Clinton years look better to me.
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Wed Jan-20-10 02:27 PM
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22. No, he spent the first year acting as Wall Street's government liaison officer. |
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Edited on Wed Jan-20-10 02:27 PM by Marr
"Bipartisanship" is about the thinnest excuse for pushing corporate policy I've ever heard.
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Wed Jan-20-10 02:27 PM
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23. This is who he is. I predict no change from him at all. nt |
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Thu Jan-21-10 12:30 PM
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27. And he's pulled back a bloody stump |
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Why negotiate with cheaters, liars, criminals, cronies, and thugs?
Ya think that's how PROGRESS is made, cutting deals with the depraved?
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