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Better Believe It (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 02:33 PM Original message |
Call Their Bluff, Mr. President |
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w4rma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 02:39 PM Response to Original message |
1. Obama is a pushover. (nt) |
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cleanhippie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 02:39 PM Response to Original message |
2. dupe |
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cleanhippie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 02:40 PM Response to Original message |
3. I think he may be calling OUR bluff. |
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Andy823 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 02:44 PM Response to Original message |
4. My question is |
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Vinnie From Indy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 02:44 PM Response to Original message |
5. It is mind boggling that Obama did not make the GOP fight publicly for billionaires |
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FBaggins (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 02:48 PM Response to Original message |
6. The problem is that it was never a "bluff" |
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wtmusic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 03:02 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. It's Democrats who are killing the proposal? |
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FBaggins (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 03:36 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. It's not a GOP meme... the people who are now opposing the "deal" are largely progressives. |
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wtmusic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 03:46 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. "He's either willing to veto or he isn't" - exactly my point. |
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FBaggins (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 03:54 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. And he's focusing on his own reelection, not progressive purity. |
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wtmusic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 04:19 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. If that is truly his focus, it may backfire |
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deaniac21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 03:09 PM Response to Reply #6 |
11. If Cam Newton is the QB, then they are right. |
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Andy823 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 05:48 PM Response to Reply #6 |
19. I agree. |
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DearAbby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 02:51 PM Response to Original message |
7. I think the time to call their bluff is over |
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Overseas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 02:54 PM Response to Original message |
8. Frustrating that Democratic Legislators didn't push their colleagues more too. |
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FBaggins (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 03:51 PM Response to Reply #8 |
14. "The Blue Dogs were too scared of doing it. And they lost a lot of seats." |
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Overseas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 04:02 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. I think things could have been different if we had made economic justice more of an issue |
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FBaggins (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 04:13 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. The problem is that we were in control. |
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Overseas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-09-10 04:36 PM Response to Reply #17 |
21. I'm talking coulda woulda shoulda here. |
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howaboutme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 02:57 PM Response to Original message |
9. Strings are being pulled |
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Scurrilous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 06:18 PM Response to Original message |
20. K & R |
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