Who could have imagined six months ago that a Republican vowing to stop Health Care in its tracks would become Kennedy's successor? Do we remember, at Kennedy's funeral, how everyone spoke of his death being a rallying point for health care? Then came the chaos, brutality and hilarity of all those debates, then the Pharmaceuticals weighing in as the fifty tons of gorilla they are, just as Wall Street had weighed in earlier. Then Obama (just like Bush) gave them everything left that hadn't already been taken by Goldman (let them eat cake) Sachs et al.
Now here we sit. Has there been a worse president since Herbert Hoover (only he was a Republican)?
When do we face the music, folks - those of us who are progressives (the rest of you can tell us you told us so)? We made a mistake. Obama has made nothing but mistakes - his war, his economy, his promises, his weak-kneed intellectuality. Nothing has worked so I would say he's finished even before he got started. And for this Massachusetts debacle to happen a day after Martin Luther King Day simply points up the sad fact that we have all seen Martin Luther King (more or less) and Obama? You're no King.
Am I upset? You bet I'm upset. I would like Obama out of office now except...except...if he could just finally wake up out of whatever dream Harvard-world he's been living in -- wake up now out of his deep articulate sleep and finally go after Wall Street with the gloves off, yeah, bite the hand that fed him and bite it hard. Because if he doesn't, he's going to end up being one more poor fella who fell on his sword for douche bags.
I'm sorry, I'm being particularly unpleasant tonight, but I feel plenty unpleasant as I look at Massachusetts and I see what the Democrats have done to themselves, what they've done to us (forget about the Republican's; they've always screwed us).
And I hope Obama feels unpleasant too. Worst than unpleasant, way worse - maybe then he'll actually do something and he'll do it, not so much with panache, but with power. (For he still has the power). And if he does wake up and does start acting like a man, if he starts biting those soft pudgy hands around him, then I'll vote for him again in a heartbeat. I'll vote for anyone he stumps for.
Otherwise I'll do the same damn thing they did up there in Massachusetts, and I'll put odds on it that pretty much everyone else in this country will do the same.
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Are you ready for a new level of American insanity?
Jeb/Liz,,,
Wouldn't that be something? maybe they'll win and then hold hearings charging the Obama administra
Sometimes I am so sad for my country, I just want to cry.
*SARCASM*
Utterly disgusting if you consider the costs:
Ted Kennedy's Senate Seat (A few MONTHS after his death)
I think I'm going to puke.
Ted Kennedy held that seat for decades. But he never once claimed ownership of it, and he never once took it for granted. That's a lesson today's Democrats have yet to learn.
Uh, yeah! His name was George W. Bush. Perhaps you remember him.
The GOP did not win, the majority of Democrats and Liberals simply did not vote.
Does this make his administra
That probabilit
Right now, Obama has a sinking feeling in his political gut telling him his people are incompeten
Follow your gut, and clean house... dump Rahm, Geithner, Summers, Caine, and all the Clintonist
Isn't it possible that Obama is trying his best to save the concept of the United States?
How is that, you might ask?
Well, imagine if it becomes the norm that each Senate will need 60 votes to pass anything. Imagine if the party in the minority always uses the filibuster to get its way. Doesn't that mean we end up with the minority party actually ruling the country? However, in our current short sightednes
It's called the Byrd Rule.
"Who could have imagined six months ago that a Republican vowing to stop Health Care in its tracks would become Kennedy's successor? "
Mr. Gyllenhaal
So when the mass media says soemthing that we know is a lie, we don't say anything in return to call it out. We just shake our collective heads and think that the average person will know it for a lie. But, then the lie keeps getting repeated and before you know it, that lie is the new truth.
Want an example?
How about that it takes 60 votes in the Senate to pas a bill? Since when was the US Constituti
If you want to build a bridge to nowhere that costs $250 million dollars, it takes 51 votes.
The process of reconcilia
What we're going to get now are piece meal portions of health care reform that can be attached to other bills. Each individual piece can be done through reconcilia
After 8 years of W . . . this. Pathetic!
"Otherwise I'll do the same damn thing they did up there in Massachuse
The two parties could not be further apart than they are now. Anyone, who tries to convince you that they are all corporate shills is just latching on to the populist anger that results from a bad economy, an economy that went bad because the worst President started 2 wars, reduced taxes while increasing spending, and did not govern free markets.
Sotomayor'
This is what hangs in the balance: the future of the Supreme Court. Tread lightly because I am not with you. I'm with him.
The far left listened to the right, and engaged them in a screaming match. During the course of the argument, they forgot that there was no need to argue. There was simply a need to unify. I am not with you. I'm with President Obama. I kinda wish the far left would go into a corner, far far away right now, and let us right the ship that the Republican
Vote for hope and change...a
We did not vote for 0bamarahma
And you want to rationaliz
Support those that lied to us, because its better than the people before that li ed to us?
0bamarahma has been as politicall
Quit crying about morally discipline
Progressiv
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Does it call for the public option?
Does it call for capping CEO pay?
Does it call for Gay Marriage?
Does it even call for re-enactin
Take a look at what you voted for.
Obama the "candidate
Now Obama the "president
ONLY Progressiv
Oh, and we're still fighting two endless, purposeles
See this for what it is. A rejection of a bad candidate, a poorly run campaign, and a complacent Democratic establishm