Gallup's Generic House Ballot: Why So Different?
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
What do you think I don't understand about reconciliation?
And if you're going to respond, answer the questions.
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'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Enforcement Must Be Halted, Federal Judge Rules
Richard Socarides, former Hill staffer and a senior aide to President Clinton writes about Obama's DoJ and it if had a choice to file a brief supporting DOMA (yes, it did -- It's under no obligation to defend DOMA in front of the courts):
http://www.americablog.com/2009/06/choice-to-defend-doma-and-its.html
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'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Enforcement Must Be Halted, Federal Judge Rules
Obama's DoJ has filed briefs defending DOMA in the court challenge of DOMA advancing legal arguments that, if pursued by the courts, could greatly damage gay and lesbian rights (that homosexuality is the equivalent of incest and pedophilia/child rape).
Contrary to what Obama's 'most ardent supporters' excuse and what an Obama spokeswoman at the DoJ said, "Obama opposes the law, and the administration was defending the statute because it was obligated to defend federal laws when challenged in court", the DoJ has no obligation to file a brief in favor of DOMA ( http://www.americablog.com/2009/06/choice-to-defend-doma-and-its.html ).
How does a Democratic president, on the heels of the most criminal and corrupt administration in the nation's history, not replace Bush-era US attorneys? This is what Obama's US attorneys do instead of returning the democracy to the American people -- Instead we get Bush-style obscenity prosecutions:
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_691667.html
FYI - Presidents may fire US attorneys, and they do so routinely at the beginning of a new administration. It is unusual to fire US attorneys in mid-term (as Bush did) except in cases of gross misconduct (which wasn’t the case during the Bush administration).
As a liberal Democrat, I don't know how any self-respecting Democrat can defend Obama.
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Gallup's Generic House Ballot: Why So Different?
What issues do you see coming up in the next months leading up to the next campaign (2012), and what Democrats are and aren't willing to support to get votes?
What issues are important to you? For example, do you have any expectations of a public option being added to get real healthcare reform? If not now, when? Ever? How?
Do you hear any of them, any candidates, Obama, Biden, anyone, talking about concrete legislation they intend to pass to get people jobs & stimulate the economy?
Why's the only thing we hear about the coming election next month is Christine O'Donnell, Sharon Angell, the Tea Party and polls? Why aren't the candidates, specifically the Democrats, being asked what they're going to do if elected?
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Gallup's Generic House Ballot: Why So Different?
What do you think Obama is going to do after the November 2 elections if Republicans take control of one or both Houses of Congress?
Do you think he'll veto the legislation they pass (through reconciliation & every other means they can manage)? Do you think Obama will take to the bully pulpit, urge Americans to bury Republicans in email, phone calls, snail mail, & urge Democrats to block Republicans every way possible?
Or do you think that Obama's going to be making deal after deal with them, spinning what he can as somehow "Good for the People and Democrats", and/or, "I'm president of all the People, & the People in their infinite wisdom put Republicans in the majority, so I must honor their wishes & work with Republicans, & not try to obstruct their will"?
And if Democrats keep control of Congress? Do you think Obama's going to continue trying to work in a "bipartisan manner" with Republicans, keep flip-flopping on his campaign promises, & say that the election was a referendum on his trying "change the tone in Washington", and voters want him to do more of the same?
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Obama Backs Foreclosure Probe By States, But Is Against Moratorium, Gibbs Says
It is NOT under promises broken!
Do you even bother to fact-check yourself before lying.
What a friggin liar. PATHETIC.
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I didn't say that it was, billyg.
You have a reading/listening comprehension problem.
It explains why you are taken in by Obama's 'lawyer-speak', and by politicians' rhetoric in general. It would also then explain how you, lost in that world where precision in language is the rule, pick the political party to root for as one would a sports team, i.e., you like the team's colors, the team's members (politicians) seem more like people in your family or your neighborhood, etc.
You can't recite what Candidate Obama's pledge was and what's actually happened since, can you, billy?
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'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Enforcement Must Be Halted, Federal Judge Rules
An ill-informed electorate is a combination of many factors, certainly all that you've listed, but we're not really socially conservative.
When informed of the issues, most Americans agree with liberal policies. Neither they nor I would characterize themselves as far-anything or extreme, but mainstream. For example, nobody likes the idea of abort!on, but most Americans do not want the government involved if they find themselves in the predicament of an unwanted pregn@ncy. And if you frame it as, "You like to k!II bab!es?!?!?!?!", even those who are generally immune to authoritar!an intimidat!on are going to have a hard time due to the moral judgment assumed in that question, and framing the issue in those terms.
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Democrats could get a whole heII of a lot further with recruiting new Democratic voters if they stopped behaving like politicians talking out of both sides of their mouths & start shooting straight, speaking honestly to the American people & actually working on behalf of the People instead of the Corporations.
More people voted in the 2008 election, for Obama and Democrats, than have ever voted before in the history of the country. More new and more returning voters voting for a black man in good old r@c!st USA because they believed he was going to change the way Washington did business. They believed that Obama & Democrats were going to kick corporations and their lobbyists out of government and to the curb of history.
Obama l!ed; he's been continuing most of the Bush-Cheney policies (and going even beyond what Bush and Cheney ever dared to do), and that's why voters are turning their backs on Obama & Democrats. All that Obama & Democrats have to do to win back supporters, motivate Democratic voters back to the election booths is to really start working in the People's interests instead of the Corporations'. But Obama & Democrats aren't doing that. They're running on the bash!ng a handful of extreme, fringe, rightwing Republicans (teabaggers).
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Democrats could get a whole heII of a lot further with recruiting new Democratic voters if they stopped behaving like politicians talking out of both sides of their mouths & start shooting straight, speaking honestly to the American people & actually working on behalf of the People instead of the Corporations.
More people voted in the 2008 election, for Obama and Democrats, than have ever voted before in the history of the country. More new and more returning voters voted for a black man in good old r@c!st USA because they believed he was going to change the way Washington did business. They believed that Obama & Democrats were going to kick corporations and their lobbyists out of government.
Obama l!ed; he's been continuing most of the Bush-Cheney policies (and going even beyond what Bush and Cheney ever dared to do), and that's why voters are turning their backs on Obama & Democrats. All that Obama & Democrats have to do to win back supporters, motivate Democratic voters back to the election booths is to really start working in the People's interests instead of the Corporations'. But Obama & Democrats aren't doing that. They're running on the bashing a handful of extreme, fringe, rightwing Republicans (teabaggers).
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There are about 306 million Americans, of which about 100 million of us vote. 50 million Americans are children, underage, ineligible to vote. The other half of America doesn't vote. Political parties try to expand their membership, but it's an expensive and difficult proposition. They spend their resources on identifying where likely voters are for targeting (and where voters who are likely to vote for their party hang out for the sales pitch).
Democrats traditionally have found college and university campuses to be good places for recruitment. But our modern American lifestyle doesn't lend itself to steady & consistent watering holes where we gather past our university years. We get in our cars, we drive to work, we go home and a few places in between.
In the 1980s, Ralph Reed figured out that a natural constituency existed that hadn't been tapped before. Sitting ducks for Republicans. Evangelical Christians, some of the most ig.no.rant & hypocritical souls ever to draw breath on the planet, and who can be found & pitched to at least once a week in their churches. RalphReed told Rove that he could organize the Bible Belt churches & reliably deliver them to the Republican Party; he's been doing so ever since.
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An ill-informed electorate is a combination of many factors, certainly all that you've listed, but we're not really socially conservative.
When informed of the issues, most Americans agree with liberal policies. Neither they nor I would characterize themselves as far-anything or extreme, but mainstream. For example, nobody likes the idea of abortion, but most Americans do not want the government involved if they find themselves in the predicament of an unwanted pregnancy. And if you frame it as, "You like to k!ll babies?!?!?!?!", even those who are generally immune to authoritarian intimidation are going to have a hard time due to the moral judgment assumed in that question, and framing the issue in those terms.
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Obama Defines Midterm Election Goals On The Campaign Trail
Even if that were true, it doesn't change the fact that Obama and the DLC-controlled Democratic Party & the GOP are corporate t00Is, trying to outdo each other in delivering for their real constituent, BigCorporations.
The trick for the DLC has been to make it seem as if they were really working on behalf of WeThePeople, and get Democratic voters to believe that Democratic politicians were for strong regulations on banks & WallStreet, investigations, prosecutions, restitution of what has been robbed from the middle class and poor for the past 30+ years, environmental clean-up, clean, sustainable renewable energy (& that isn't nuclear), putting an end to the wars and occupations of Iraq & Afghanistan, affordable, quality universal healthcare, etc., when they're not.
The DLC-controlled DemocraticParty gives lip service to these & all populist issues, because like the RepublicanParty, the DLC works for the benefit of transnational corporations.
We've been doing it your way (the DLC's way) for 20 years now, & the government & the Democratic Party keeps moving farther to the right.
If you and I are on the same side, if you and I want the same policies (real Democratic policies), and going about getting them your way (protecting Obama, siding with Obama) is getting Republican policies, NOT Democratic policies, when do you realize that maybe you don't know what you're talking about?
Do you ever realize it?
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Not too bad at all; others will.
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Obama Backs Foreclosure Probe By States, But Is Against Moratorium, Gibbs Says
And you really aren't the brightest bulb on the Xm@s tree, are ya, billy?
It's Politifact's current status of Promises Broken, etc., by Obama.
Barack Obama Campaign Promise No. 434: Set a three-month moratorium on foreclosures
#1, it was to be for all foreclosures, and it wasn't done.
"Voluntary" doesn't mean chit, billyg. As we've seen with the banking industry with these 'deals' Obama makes with them, they is no requirement on them to comply. It's entirely voluntary, and the banks have chosen not to volunteer.
And as we've also seen on all of Obama's 'deals', either Obama is the worst of the worst deal-makers, and he winds up holding the short end of the stick (and that's We The People who wind up holding the short end of the stick, because he's making these deals on our behalf), or he's corrupt to the bone and would prefer looking inept. Apparently that's working for him in that he still has the stup!dest of all supporters, the 0bamab0ts, laying down their lives for him. They (you) would sooner continue voting against your own best interests. You're no better or brighter than a Bushie.
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Obama Backs Foreclosure Probe By States, But Is Against Moratorium, Gibbs Says
You can't even quote comments (or attribute them) accurately, billy.
READ AND LEARN:
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/promise/434/set-a-three-month-moratorium-on-foreclosures/
http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=10863
http://www.rttnews.com/Content/TopStories.aspx?Node=B1&Id=739463&Category=Top%20Stories
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5imp3 k3M6zpobE3 2JP-iqt0CdZ5mw
For those who want to know how Obama and the DLC-controlled Democrats sold the American people down the river, Bill Greider explains it rather well here - http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Greider/We'reScrewed_ ByDemocrats.html
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Obama Backs Foreclosure Probe By States, But Is Against Moratorium, Gibbs Says
Hey, Chlamyd!a, READ AND LEARN:
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/promise/434/set-a-three-month-moratorium-on-foreclosures/
http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=10863
http://www.rttnews.com/Content/TopStories.aspx?Node=B1&Id=739463&Category=Top%20Stories
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5imp3 k3M6zpobE3 2JP-iqt0CdZ5mw
For those who want to know how Obama and the DLC-controlled Democrats sold the American people down the river, Bill Greider explains it rather well here - http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Greider/We'reScrewed_ ByDemocrats.html
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Obama Backs Foreclosure Probe By States, But Is Against Moratorium, Gibbs Says
Coming from you, BillLoney, a political operative paid to spread disinformation by the DLC, I'll take that as a supreme compliment.
Notice how none of you can argue the issue, or defend Obama and the DLC-controlled Democrats in Congress on anything they've done.
If you and Obama and the DLC-Dems can't win me over, you can't win. You won't win.
Getting the DLC out of the Democratic Party is the only way that the average, ordinary American citizen is going to be able to get the country back on course, working for the middle class.
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Obama Backs Foreclosure Probe By States, But Is Against Moratorium, Gibbs Says
I am an old FDR liberal Democrat. Whether you think that's left or far left (or far right, depending on some people's perspective), then that's what you think about FDR.
I am one of the 70% of liberals that comprise the Democratic Party, and what Obama and Democrats are doing is not what Democratic voters put Obama & Democrats into power to achieve on their behalf.
The DLC is DINO, ideologically the moderate Republicans of the 1950s & 1960s. It is anti-populist and a t00l of the corporations, just like Republicans. The DLC, through no acclaimation of the People or Democratic voters, controls the Democratic Party. That's YOU, dearie.
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Obama Backs Foreclosure Probe By States, But Is Against Moratorium, Gibbs Says
Hey, Chlamydia, READ AND LEARN:
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/promise/434/set-a-three-month-moratorium-on-foreclosures/
http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=10863
http://www.rttnews.com/Content/TopStories.aspx?Node=B1&Id=739463&Category=Top%20Stories
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5imp3 k3M6zpobE3 2JP-iqt0CdZ5mw
Bill Greider explains it rather well here - http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Greider/We'reScrewed_ ByDemocrat s.html
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Obama Backs Foreclosure Probe By States, But Is Against Moratorium, Gibbs Says
And Obama and the DLC-controlled Democratic Party are allowing it. They're helping them, actually.
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Obama Backs Foreclosure Probe By States, But Is Against Moratorium, Gibbs Says
You're such a DLC-t00I, BillLoney!
Not even Politifact will come to your rescue - http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/promise/434/set-a-three-month-moratorium-on-foreclosures/
http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=10863
http://www.rttnews.com/Content/TopStories.aspx?Node=B1&Id=739463&Category=Top%20Stories
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5imp3 k3M6zpobE3 2JP-iqt0CdZ5mw
Bill Greider explains it rather well here - http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Greider/We'reScrewed_ ByDemocrat s.html
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Obama Backs Foreclosure Probe By States, But Is Against Moratorium, Gibbs Says
Are you now really trying to defend Obama as always having been a corporate t00l? Oh, I absolutely love this!
It's only a matter of time before you come fully around (after your head stops spinning around Linda Blair-style).
http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=10863
http://www.rttnews.com/Content/TopStories.aspx?Node=B1&Id=739463&Category=Top%20Stories
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5imp3
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/promise/434/set-a-three-month-moratorium-on-foreclosures/
Bill Greider explains it rather well here - http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Greider/We'reScrewed_
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Report: Wall Street Pay to Hit Record $144B
A new study says Wall Street pay is set to break a record high for the second consecutive year. According to the Wall Street Journal, the top thirty-five financial firms are on pace to hand out $144 billion in compensation and benefits this year—a four percent increase from 2009. Total profits are estimated at $63.1 billion, a 20 percent decline from 2006.
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/usa/Report-Wall-Street-Pay-to-Hit-Record-144-Billion-104788109.html
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Obama Backs Foreclosure Probe By States, But Is Against Moratorium, Gibbs Says
Facing Poor Unemployment, Foreclosure & Bankruptcy Rates, Obama Campaigns on Economy in Lead-Up to Nov. Midterms
John Nichols, the Washington correspondent for The Nation magazine, says Obama should borrow a page from FDR and call for economic justice.
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/9/7/facing_poo
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Obama Backs Foreclosure Probe By States, But Is Against Moratorium, Gibbs Says
As Fraud Scandal Grows, White House Opposes National Moratorium on Foreclosures
A coalition of as many as forty state attorneys general is expected to announce Wednesday a joint investigation into the recent revelations that major lenders may have committed fraud while forcing thousands of people out of their homes. While senior congressional Democrats have joined the calls for a national moratorium on foreclosures, the White House is arguing against punishing the industry.
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/10/12/as_fraud_s
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Obama Backs Foreclosure Probe By States, But Is Against Moratorium, Gibbs Says
Bailed-Out Banks Are Illegally Breaking into Struggling Borrowers’ Homes -
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/10/12/why_are_ba
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Obama Backs Foreclosure Probe By States, But Is Against Moratorium, Gibbs Says
Candidate Obama pledged bankruptcy reform and a moratorium on foreclosures, and has reneged on both.
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Civilian Police Recruitment Growing By The Thousands As Budgets Tighten
As a criminal defense attorney, you have no problem with either situation?
You see the denial of your clients' Constitutional rights, due process, as "harmless error"?
You don't see it as your clients being wrongfully convicted?
Do you also have no problem with the state keeping your clients in prison beyond their served sentence? How about Obama's planned 'preventive detention'?
Are you in private practice or are you a public defender?
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Civilian Police Recruitment Growing By The Thousands As Budgets Tighten
Why do you believe that?
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Obama Defines Midterm Election Goals On The Campaign Trail
By the way, I'm talking about a president who is a popular leader, who comes into the White House with more Americans having voted for him and his campaign of CHANGE than had ever voted before in the history of the country. Political capital, and Obama came into office with a huge amount. So large, the GOP was in a puddle in the gutter outside of the US Capitol.
After the 2008 election, Republicans weren't just on the ropes; they were down for the count. What did Obama do? He issued them a pardon.
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'Party government' runs the US Congress, has since the late 1790s, and the Democratic Party has controlled both Houses of Congress (with a supermajority in the Senate) and the White House since 2008.
That's what being in the majority party's caucus means -- You get the perks of the power.
Democrats like to hide this from the people, the 'hierarchy of party control and power', and lend the illusion of democracy (small 'd'), like "herding cats", "no organized party", etc., but that's how it is, and it's the only reason there are political parties.
If you do not get behind what the leader of your political party tells you to do, you're going to find your life really cold and lonely for the duration of your term in office. And come reelection time, you will NOT have the party organization behind you either at a state or national level, and that is certain de@th for your time in office, not to mention your overall career in politics.
There are all kinds of other 'carrots and sticks' you use to keep your party together, and if Obama really wanted to, it would have happened.
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Obama insisted Lieberman remain in the Democratic Caucus. In spite of multiple betrayals by Lieberman before and during the 2008 election (Lieberman endorsed McCain, campaigned FOR McCain).
Over REAL Democratic senators, Obama insisted Lieberman keep the chairmanship of the Governmental Affairs & Homeland Security Committee. That's the committee that whitewashed the Bush administration's failure during Hurricane Katrina. Obama rubberstamped that committee's not investigating Bush once Democrats took over control of government after the 2008 election.
Does anyone really believe that Obama got nothing for that concession? No agreement that Lieberman would vote as Obama told him to vote? No agreement from Lieberman that he couldn't join Republicans in filibustering? No agreement that he would sign on to a public option?
If Obama got nothing for that concession, why didn't he? Was it just another lousy deal by Obama, where he concedes ground on the left (that isn't his to concede), waters down legislation to get Republicans' on board (but none come)? Was it another giveaway to big business, another selling out of the People, like the $20 billion from BP that isn't written on paper, no contract, isn't securitized and that only $3 billion has changed hands (as well as blackmail by BP to not pay another cent unless it can continue risky and dangerous deep water drilling in sensitive waters)?
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There is nothing that Democrats in Congress are doing that Obama hasn't signed off on, much less ordered.
When you're the president, you are the head of your political party. When your political party controls both Houses of Congress and the White House, you do what the head of your party tells you to do. The only people who don't understand this are those who have never worked in politics or in government.
Democrats like to hide this from the people, and lend the illusion of democracy (small 'd'), like "herding cats", "no organized party", etc., but that's how it is, and it's the only reason there are political parties.
If you don't get behind what the leader of your political party tells you to do, you're going to find your life really cold and lonely for the duration of your term in office. Come election time, you will NOT have the party organization behind you either at a state or national level, & that is certain de@th for your time in office, not to mention your overall career in politics.
The Democratic leadership could've taken away committee chairs of members in their caucus that joined with Republicans and threatened to filibuster a public option for healthcare.
The DNC could've taken away reelection funds. But it hasn't. Because Lieberman & Blue Dogs (& Republicans) provide cover to Obama & the DLC-controlled Democratic Party, to let them continue to serve corporate interests over the interests of the People.
KEEP READING
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You're another one who just can't accept that Obama may not be what you think he is, and that you got punk'ed.
You did not answer the question, and it looks like you're setting up the election as a way to justify Obama's moving even farther to the right, trying even more caving to Republicans for the sake of 'bipartisanship'. You would cut off your own nose to spite your own face, rather than hold Obama to account to what he promised, and do the job that is that of a president.
Whether "the people let him down" or not (and I think that's one of the more ridiculous excuses I've heard around here), it would explain why Obama's been continuing just about all of Bush's policies, going Bush-Cheney one better on asserting unitary executive powers for himself (preventive detention, murdering Americans without due process or oversight, etc., continuing rendition and t0rture, cloaking it all in the 'State Secrets'-Act). That's why voters are turning their backs on Obama & Democrats.
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The rightwing attacking Obama and their refusal to work in "a bipartisan manner" should have pushed Obama to play hardball and move populist legislation through Congress quickly and decisively. To undo the Bush-Cheney abuses, especially with the tentative hold on a filibuster-proof majority Democrats were given in the 2008 election.
Instead, he let Republicans dictate the pace and shape a debate that was already done and voted on and won by Democrats in 2008.
If Republicans are so bad (and I think they are), why is Obama blocking all investigations and prosecutions into the Bush-Cheney administration? Perhaps if Bill Clinton hadn't done the same thing for the Reagan-Bush administration, we wouldn't have been saddled with Bush-Cheney at all.
When Obama came into power, the GOP wasn't on the ropes; it was down for the count. And Obama issued them a pardon. He expresses absolutely no remorse or plan to do anything differently.
Obama's not the Democrat that you think he is. He's not any kind of Democrat; he's a DINO. And if you didn't like the Republican Party of the last 35 years, the party of Reagan (forget just the past 8), you're going to hate where Obama and the DLC are taking the 'new & improved' Democratic Party from which they hope "to govern for 100 years".
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Obama and RahmEmanuel have never gone after the Republican leadership directly. Not MitchMcConnell, not JohnBoehner, not EricCantor, not JohnMcCain (the titular head of the Party, as the last presidential nominee). Because they don't want to offend them.
The White House put its full weight & support behind Blanche Lincoln over the true progressive (& union-backed) candidate in the primary, Bill Halter.
This wasn't unlike when Obama made a deal with Arlen Specter and put the full weight and support of the Democratic machine behind Specter during the 2010 primary in Pennsylvania, trying to buy off (among other alternative candidates Democratic voters in PA might have wanted to vote to have representing them) Joe Sestak. Consider that -- Obama actively went about trying to prevent Democratic voters from choosing their preferred candidate for the US so that a DINO, Republican Arlen Specter, could retain the seat.
Lincoln is 40 points down behind the GOP candidate John Boozman.
Guess who could beat Boozman in Arkansas? Lt. Governor Bill Halter. Because, like just about all Americans, Arkansans would prefer an authentic candidate, even if it's a progressive. We appreciate honesty.
But more progressives in Congress means real populist legislation getting passed into law. Real reform bills, that re-regulate banks and big business. Real stimulus bills, with jobs creation, green clean energy development, and more.
But that's not who or what Obama and the DLC-controlled Democrats are about.
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Obama, Rahm Emanuel, the DLC, David Axelrod, David Plouffe, all have worked their @$$es off to prevent real progressives getting into office in order get and keep more Blue Dogs in office (Blanche Lincoln is one example of that) while doing everything possible to make sure the GOP got back on its feet after the 2008 election and helping make the Tea Party a viable force to be reckoned with.
Once in the White House, Obama and Rahm Emanuel didn't go after the Republican leadership in Congress, or even the Bush-Cheney administration for their many crimes. No, Obama and Emanuel blocked all investigations into Bush-Cheney, & then elevated the teabaggers, SarahPalin & RushLimbaugh, two people with absolutely no job, no position in the GOP.
Why?
Because that's who Obama & the DLC-controlled DemocraticParty wants to run against, both in 2010 & in 2012. Obama wants to drive a wedge between the base of the RepublicanParty that controls the RepublicanParty (teabaggers) and the rest of the RepublicanParty, move the Democratic Party over even farther to the right-of-center than the DLC has moved it in the last 20 years, in order to attract moderate & conservative Republican politicians and their supporters into the Democratic Party. From there, the DemocraticParty believes it can "govern for 100 years", with the base of the DemocraticParty out & marginalized, just like the Teabaggers that are currently controlling the GOP.
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Obama Defines Midterm Election Goals On The Campaign Trail
Barack Obama got into office by misleading Democratic voters. He ran to the left of Hillary Clinton. He convinced centrists that he was a centrist. He convinced liberals he was a liberal posing as a centrist. But first and foremost, Obama is a lawyer, and I mean that in the worst sense of the word, choosing his words very carefully (lawyer-speak) during the campaign, giving people the sense of what they wanted to hear to get their vote. It's why even among his most ardent admirers, they still argue about whether he's a liberal or a centrist or a moderate Republican.
Doing what is right for transnational corporations is what Obama is about, and trying to sell it as good for Americans is what he does afterwards. He's the epitome of the 1950s Republican, "What's good for GM is good for America."
He did a job on everybody.
Since he took office, and even before with his FISA flip-flop and then the flip-flop on windfall profits taxes on gas.
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Obama Defines Midterm Election Goals On The Campaign Trail
You're another one who just can't accept that Obama may not be what you think he is, and that you got punk'ed.
You did not answer the question, and it looks like you're setting up the election as a way to justify Obama's moving even farther to the right, trying even more caving to Republicans for the sake of 'bipartisanship'. You would cut off your own nose to spite your own face, rather than hold Obama to account to what he promised, and do the job that is that of a president.
Whether "the people let him down" or not (and I think that's one of the more ridiculous excuses I've heard around here), it would explain why Obama's been continuing just about all of Bush's policies, going Bush-Cheney one better on asserting unitary executive powers for himself (preventive detention, murdering Americans without due process or oversight, etc., continuing rendition and t0rture, cloaking it all in the 'State Secrets'-Act). That's why voters are turning their backs on Obama & Democrats.
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