Correct.
This is completely political on Obama's part.
He's afraid of being pegged by Republicans as "being soft on security" ( http://www
I don't know how many ways Democratic voters need to be told by the politicians that they put into office that they don't matter.
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I don't know why you think she would be given more respect as president than as a candidate for president, as the wife of a president, or as a senator. Contrary to what was reported in mainstream media during the primaries, Hillary wasn't liked in the senate by her colleagues. She's likable enough when she's on even-footing, when there's nothing at stake, when there's no power challenge, but that's not Washington or how anyone comes to know her.
Likability, though, isn't really the issue.
Effectiveness is the issue, & she's not.
I think you're deceiving yourself. but that's what the passage of time allows.
Hillary ran a terrible campaign, and campaigns are pretty good indicators of what kind of chief executive a candidate would be. Refresh your memory with this - http://www
During the 2008 campaign, the media & Republicans went silent on Bill Clinton's business deals after leaving the WhiteHouse. He made $100 million, a good amount of it as a result of some of his decisions when he was in the White House, & partnered with some sketchy characters. Ron Burkell & Yucaipa, for example. The only reason we didn't hear much about it during the campaign is because Hillary didn't get the nomination. We might not have heard about it during the general election campaign, but you can bet that we would've heard about it 24/7 had Hillary won the general election.
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^ - Pure myth.
As is Obama's timidity. He's plenty tough when it comes to standing up to the Democratic base.
Democratic voters have mistakenly believed that Obama&Democrats want what they want. The DLC-controlled DemocraticParty gives lip service to all populist issues (like PublicHealthcare).
If the Bush years taught us nothing else, it's that anyone can sell anything to Americans, if you're stolid & relentless in your sales pitch & tactics. It's not that Bush&R0ve were geniuses & knew something that nobody else knew; Bush&R0ve were just more ruthless (clumsy & careless many political graybeards would say) in doing what politicians & the parties had gone to great lengths to hide from Americans.
Obama didn't get to be the first black president, vanquish the Clinton machine (to get the nomination) & the oldest, most experienced politicians in our nation's history (including the Rove machine) by not having mastered these skills. Nor do Democratic politicians (more incumbents than ever, in office longer) not know how to do it. How do you think Democrats managed to keep impeaching Bush&Cheney off the table & have us still reelecting them, not marching on Washington with torches&pitchforks?
Obama&Democrats know how to do it -- They don't want to do it.
The trick for them has been to keep the many different populist groups believing that they really do support our issues, but they're merely inept. And to get us to keep voting for them despite their failure to deliver on any of our alleged shared
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So Obama reaches out for Republicans, watering down the legislation that they won't vote for. Because everything that the parties do, both parties, is for the next election campaign. It's all about putting off, not getting anything done, making everything an election issue.
The second point is that Democrats could even change the supermajority rule. Right now. Get everything and everything passed through simple majority, like it used to be.
All 200+ bills that the House has passed in the past 18 months, that sit waiting for Harry Reid to put them on the floor for a vote. But he doesn't because not only don't the Democrats in the Senate want what's in the House's legislation, the House Democrats don't want what they voted for. They only voted for these bills because they needed the cover of their yes-votes back home, with their liberal constituents, but they knew that the Senate Democrats would never pass these bills, so their campaign war chests would continue to get corporation donations.
It's a s!ck & dysfunctional cycle they have going.
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60 votes are required to block the threat of a filibuster, and republicans have threatened most legislation (except military spending or money to corporations).
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No.
There are two points you don't understand. One is Rule 22 & the fact that Democrats refuse to exercise the discretion that Rule22 allows: Making Republicans actually filibuster, instead of just threatening to do it.
Rule 22 gives the SenateMajo
HarryReid should make them do it, over every issue where they threaten to do it. Filibustering is hard on those soft, pampered bodies. Americans love reality TV. 'Survivor - Washington, DC'.
But Obama & the DLC-controlled DemocraticParty aren't doing that. Because it might actually work to get Democratic voters' legislative agenda made into the law of the land & do good for the People. And that's not what Obama&Company are there for. They're there to do the work of the transnational corporations, & preventing that are the liberals.
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The second point is that Democrats could even change the supermajority rule. Right now. Get everything and everything passed through simple majority, like it used to be.
All 200+ bills that the House has passed in the past 18 months, that sit waiting for Harry Reid to put them on the floor for a vote. But he doesn't because not only don't the Democrats in the Senate want what's in the House's legislation, the House Democrats don't want what they voted for. They only voted for these bills because they needed the cover of their yes-votes back home, with their liberal constituents, but they knew that the Senate Democrats would never pass these bills, so their campaign war chests would continue to get corporation donations.
It's a s!ck & dysfunctional cycle they have going.
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You couldn't be more wrong.
There are two points you don't understand. One is Rule 22 & the fact that Democrats refuse to exercise the discretion that Rule22 allows: Making Republicans actually filibuster, instead of just threatening to do it. Rule 22 gives the SenateMajo
HarryReid's called Republicans on it exactly once in the last 3 1/2 years, when it was something that Democrats really wanted & needed at that time (when Republican
HarryReid should make them do it, over every issue where they threaten to do it -- Americans love reality TV. 'Survivor - Washington, DC'.
But Obama & the DLC-controlled DemocraticParty aren't doing that. Because it might actually work to get Democratic voters' legislative agenda made into the law of the land & do good for the People. And that's not what Obama&Company are there for. They're there to do the work of the transnational corporations, & preventing that are the liberals.
So Obama reaches out for Republicans, watering down the legislation that they won't vote for. Because everything that the parties do, both parties, is for the next election campaign. It's all about putting off, not getting anything done, making everything an election issue.
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Have you considered that the reason that the DLC-controlled Democrats who you're talking about don't happen to believe what you (and I) think Democrats stand for?
We're dealing with a political party that has been taken over and is now controlled by DINOs, moderate Republican
The DLC, now led by Obama, has moved the political center line far to the right. Obama, and Clinton before him, has been flipping off the left and trying to attract Republican politicians and their supporters to support Democratic politicians. Whenever Obama has the opportunity he waters down Democratic policies and legislation, in spite of the fact that the Republican Party has decided to reject everything Obama does.
The Republican Party announced what their intention the first day Obama got into office; it's not been any secret. But Obama continues to crank out what is really Republican-style legislation, and at the last hour, he gets it passed through reconciliation. Why would anybody do that if that end result, lousy policies that don't represent Democratic policies nor get the job done as Democrats were put into power to accomplish, wasn't exactly the policies that Obama and the DLC like?
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