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Thu Oct-20-11 08:48 PM
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#OWS: Sorry for the inconvenience |
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Edited on Thu Oct-20-11 08:49 PM by Fire Walk With Me
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Thu Oct-20-11 08:53 PM
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1. absolutely love it. Brilliant! |
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Thu Oct-20-11 08:57 PM
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We must bongo more to be convincing... ;-)
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Thu Oct-20-11 08:59 PM
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Thu Oct-20-11 09:00 PM
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4. I thought we were doing that when we elected Obama. |
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Yet I now realize I had no idea how that change was supposed to look...except I did want masses of green energy.
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Thu Oct-20-11 09:45 PM
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5. Somehow electing someone passionately committed to bipartisanship just doesn't scream change to me.. |
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Thu Oct-20-11 10:00 PM
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6. So you weren't thinking big things? |
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Thu Oct-20-11 10:23 PM
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7. Oh, we got big things all right.. |
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Big bailouts, big wars, big bonuses for the 1%..
Those weren't really the big things I had in mind though..
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Thu Oct-20-11 10:31 PM
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Thu Oct-20-11 11:03 PM
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10. I was hoping it was a sales pitch, it was mostly all that wasn't. |
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Edited on Thu Oct-20-11 11:04 PM by TheKentuckian
I mean who would believe something so fucking out there stupid?
We are talking about the evil, greedy, warmongering, willfully ignorant, country wrecking, thralls of the wealthy, fuckwit motherfuckers who have actively been dismantling our nation here.
When a smart guy that I figure isn't evil talks about being "bipartisan", it has to be a political ploy. Something to give them a little rope and come back hard on them after a few months.
A major pooch screwing on our part. In hindsight, anyone who even talks such nonsense is too fucking hard to pin down on anything to even have a decent guess at their agenda.
Who wants a shitload of really bad ideas, horrid policies, and pretty sinister intents.
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Thu Oct-20-11 10:37 PM
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9. Nobody expected that amount of sabotage from the Republicans. |
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It is sabotage, calling it anything else is glossing it over.
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Thu Oct-20-11 11:05 PM
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11. Funny, the Republicans didn't surprise me at all.. |
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To expect anything other than sabotage from the Republicans was prima facie evidence of terminal naivete.
What really upsets me is that I think the majority of the Democratic party secretly agrees with the Republicans.
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Thu Oct-20-11 11:34 PM
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14. I had little faith in them, but there's always an expectation |
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that when there is an emergency they'd drop the shit and pitch in.
Let's face it, they just aren't that into us.
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Thu Oct-20-11 11:19 PM
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and I think many others did as well. What I didn't expect was the Democrats to show so much weakness when they held the Presidency and majorities in the House and Senate.
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Thu Oct-20-11 11:39 PM
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15. Without a filibuster proof majority, they knew they had to try |
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to win enough support to get anything done. They refused to believe that a person who swore an oath would commit such horrific acts against the American people.
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Fri Oct-21-11 11:36 PM
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17. Nobody expected The Spanish Inquisition but there it was. |
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Sat Oct-22-11 07:50 AM
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19. Ha! We had the naive belief that when a congressman takes an oath to |
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Thu Oct-20-11 11:26 PM
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13. The problem most of you have is |
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the idea that Obama will carry out the same type of abuse as Bush II, so it is somewhat understandable to see how some on the left can be outrage.
We have all forgotten that Obama was a constitutional professor, do people really understand the profile of a constitutional professor? What it takes to become a constitutional professor? Maybe? or do they just brush it aside because when they look at Obama they see him as just another black man privileged due to affirmative action he was able to breakthrough?
I guess my argument here is that if people on DU have been paying close attention and not get caught up in the primary fight with all the sound bite, they would have taken the time to learn more about him than they do now. People need to stop looking for sound bites and learn to do their homework before building up false outrage that does nothing but provide ammunition to republicans.
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Fri Oct-21-11 11:29 PM
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16. Pres Obama has set this up perfectly... |
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He tried to be bipartisan when we had the majority. The Repubs came back and used it against him and said he didn't do anything when he had the majority. He used up the time trying to pull everyone together. That's where he had to start.
Then the budget and no "increased taxes" That got us a reduced credit rating.
He set this up to show that the Repubs won't agree to anything that will look like Obama did anything. The refused to package.
Now he is presenting each separate piece to the jerks and in order to not show they would vote it down they filibuster - but, in essence, they accomplished the same thing.
They will do the same with each part of the proposal and in doing so will show the American people (along with all the middle class Repubs) that they are screwing America and are only out to support the wealthy.
At the same time, if the Dems don't support these proposals (if the Repubs don't filibuster every time) it will show what Dems are "bought". also.
I can see a lot of changes in the next few elections. Not only is congress bought but the Supreme Court, too!!! For some reason, the Repubs think that they can continue to screw the middle class and keep their jobs. They have been doing it for so long and getting away with it that they don't believe the people will wake up and vote them out.
Bye, bye lice!!!
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Sat Oct-22-11 02:34 AM
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18. And Wall Street closed...uhhhh...what earlier this afternoon? |
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"Changing the world" involves voting, not clogging streets. At least in an Democracy. Something I expect not one vitriolic replier to this post to grasp, or really ever understand. But living forever in the hagiographic cocoon of 1968 is not really very productive versus, say, electing the most progressive President in American history - the one currently occupying the Oval Office.
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