When given the choice between having Barack Obama reach across the aisle to work with the GOP or pursue the policies he advanced during his campaign, a significant majority of Americans want him to stick to his guns (56 percent to 39 percent). And 79 percent of the public wants Republicans to drop the partisanship and work with Obama. No wonder Obama seems to be driving Republicans over the edge, with Tom DeLay calling the president's address to Congress "insane," John Bolton cracking jokes about the nuclear annihilation of Chicago, and Bobby Jindal using his time in the spotlight to rave -- inaccurately -- about wasteful "volcano monitoring" programs. You know times are tough for Republicans when the highlight of CPAC is a two-minute speech delivered by a 13-year old.
Everything....about the republican party is a lie. Their sole interest are the rich and to make them richer...their sole mission is to con the middle class and the poor into voting against their own interests. To think of ways of rallying them ..to unite them and to keep them coming back for more.
What blows the mind is that so many follow blindly...no matter what they see happening.
Obama is trying to work with a group of people who thought Sarah Palin was smart enough to be second in command to who would be the oldest President in history..... He's giving them WAY TOO MUCH CREDIT.
Get tough Obama. America elected YOU.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
FOX & Conservative Luminarios
FOX news on February 28, during the CPAC confrence called Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter the "luminarios of the Conservative Party."
I am almost without words. Almost. This is like announcing that boiled Spam will be served for Thanksgiving. No wonder nobody showed up. (last election) I seriously thought it was a joke, thought maybe the newscaster was just playing with me, but, nope, dead serious. Sorry, I didn't mean to insult the Spam.
Posted by CharlesLewis at 10:28 AM
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Now what is left of the right is kooky and getting kookier, Cantor, Bachman, Palin, Jindal, these are not the smart wizened fat cats of old, good luck with them. In Congress and Cali legislature, no Repub wanted to cross the aisle because whiny loud-mouths with radio shows.
Having said that, the country will swing back to some type of conservativism if the Dems don't deliver. There has been NONE, ZERO, NADA change from Bush to Obama in the most important issue of our times, the financial and real estate melt-down. Geitner, Sumner are way more of the same. Until Dems open their eyes to how the bloated FIRE sector has parasitcally taken over our country's economy and politics, their hope of making the economy better, improving social programs and income equity will have lno traction. The only difference between Obama and Bush financially is that while Bush saved rich peoples money with our national debt/interest, Obama gives some crumbs to regular people, through even more debt, after saving rich people. When someone of that group dares to screw with Wall Street as much as they have screwed twith taxpayers and workers, then, and only then I will know they are serious.
I heard Tom Delay and his attacks of President Obama.
I was wondering myself about Bi-Partisanship as a goal,,, without understanding the true costs.
Umm? What I am running around in my thinking is that the present opposition is groundless,, as President Obama, or America, have not yet had the time to see if his policies will work.
My point of comparison would be the way in which Americans were once in support of the Bush White House perusing Bin Laden into Afghanistan. There was great support for these actions until removal of the Taliban Government, Interventionism and Nation Building became the obvious goal,, rather than finding ben Laden.
Yes, there were those who opposed all war,, on both sides,, but general support for Bush was high early on. It was when the deceptions rose to media dominance and public awareness, and the search for bin Laden abandoned, that Political opposition to the Bush administration began to climb. (Late 2002 to spring 2003.)
We saw on September 11, 2008 (WHPB), bin Laden is not even being accused as the Mastermind of 9/11. as we were once led to believe.
Financial types have been warning of “Predatory Lending” for years,, including Congress.
As far as Obama, the attacks seem to be against the MAN, racial fears and ideologically based.
Not even a 100 day honeymoon????
My gosh,, seems these attacks started November 5th, as if the election never happened.
All the best
Knute
It would be interesting to see a bill come up in Congress to accomplish this feat and then see what scatter brained rants the Republicans come up with to vote against the bill. Let them fillabuster as the more they are seen as obstructionists the better off the country will be in the long run.