The Republicans won-the liberal Democrats lost & the president sided with the Republicans.

[kpete]

There really is no other way to say it: the Republicans won, the liberal Democrats lost, and the president sided with the Republicans... A Republican House aide tells me tonight it is "a damn good deal."



http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2010/12/streams-of-consciousness-dec-7.html

[jaxx]

1. The unemployed won. The middle class won.

The repubs got 2 years of tax cuts which have been on the books since 2001....hardly anything new. You bet they think it's a good deal...the teabaggers won't.

[aquart]

6. Yes. The rich get to keep looting the American treasury instead of putting money back.

Middle class Americans and the unemployed who think they got something will find they can't afford to pay for anything.

WE ARE BORROWING TO PAY FOR THIS GIVEAWAY. It isn't a cut. It isn't a cut for anyone.

[jaxx]

7. We borrow to pay for everything. Recession, big one, have you heard?

Putting money in the middle classes pockets means it gets spent. Stimulus. The unemployed eat and pay bills. Stimulus.

Those who have it all and need nothing bitch about it.

[RandomThoughts]

2. They are really pushing that thought.

They want people that are progressive to 'think they lose' Why is that, what is the intent.

Think on the intent of that trend of posting, why do they want you to feel that way.

Do you get it, they want you to feel lost.

[brentspeak]

4. Who is "they"?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. Yep. The hostage takers were rewarded and thanked by a grateful collaborator.

[Supersedeas]

5. meanwhile the fragging of those who defend a principal continues

Following the President's metaphor, the Republicans are holding the American people hostage for the sake tax cuts for the superwealthy.

During the hostage crisis, principaled Democrats demanded that the Republican be forced to vote on single issues of unemployment benefits prior to Christmas break, to vote on the single issue of tax breaks for the middle class prior to the Christmas break, to vote on Start prior to the break, to vote on the repeal of DADT prior to the break.

Loud narrow-minded Republican responded by THREATENING to filibuster anything and everything that did not have a super-tax cut for the superwealthy.

What should a person in charge do when faced with this hostage scenario?

On the ground, at the hostage scene, a few Republicans are threating, threatening the unemployed, the middleclass, and foreign treaties, and everything with a filibuster. On the ground, at the hostage scene, principaled Democrats radio the President about the threat---a few Republicans are wearing trench coats and threatening to shoot the hostages.

What should the person in charge order the principal soldiers to do in response to a few Republicans in trench coats...negotiate, press forward, attack, risk the lives of those held hostage? The principal soldiers on the ground demand that we press forward and make the hostage takers show us whether they are even armed--will they really shoot the unemployed before Christmas...to they even have any weapons hidden in their trench coats.

What should a person in charge do when faced with this hostage scenario when a few trench coat draped terrorist are threatening innocent people with trench coats for the benefit of the super wealth?

Well, I think we should force the small band of trench coats to at least show us that they are armed.

But instead, the President cedes to the threat of a few trench coats, capitulates to the demands of the terrorist, who may not have been armed in the first place, then...and here is the kicker...THEN

turns the guns and the propoganda against those who had the NERVE to demand that the trench coats show us their arms. Instead of confronting the trench coats, the President and his fan boys are assaulting the principaled soldiers who were there at the hostage scene staring down the small band of terrorists.

And the fragging continues in the Corp Media, from the White House podium, and right in...in DU.

So much for principal.

[Bandit]

8. A Core Democratic Principle was thrown out the window

Progressive Taxation. It has been the mainstay of the Democratic Party. Now not so much..:shrug: