Joe Scarboroug
They get paid extremely well, money and opportunit
All they have to do is learn the spin game, the lingo, and how to manage their voting record (hiding the votes that screw over their constituen
If they weren't in Congress, most of these people would have wound up in prison.
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It sounds like you want him to be punished, because he personally let you down?
Having the issues of the People, my issues, successful
Railing about "the injustice of it all", "it's his private life", "it's not fair", "Republica
To begin with, everybody doesn't do "it" (commit adultery, go to prostitute
They really don't give a chit about our problems and issues. They couldn't and behave so recklessly when everyone knows that their opponents are watching and waiting for an opportunit
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Weiner isn't liked by his colleagues in the House. He's abrasive and arrogant, and not just to Republican
That's over now.
The Democratic Party won't have him fronting on any issues on its behalf. Special interest groups on the left won't want him speaking for them.
Those who have no hindsight keep repeating the same mistakes. It's akin to insanity ("repeatin
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He did more than show his underwear to women.
I guess you didn't see this, which according to Jonathan Turley, law professor at George Washington University
It's not about "more dangerous" - Do we stop prosecutin
We're not even talking about crimes, but the behavior of a public servant with the public trust.
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so, the Ethics Committee is going to investigate. Everyone seems to want this over in 2 weeks, and it's just going to happen that way.
Let me be very clear about this: I was NOT referring to the 17 year old when I said "Would you want your wife or daughter 'friend'in
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I'd wager that a good majority of them aren't fully informed about what transpired
To remain in Congress isn't only up to the members' constituen
I think you need to figure out if you're more committed to your own issues or to Anthony Weiner having a job. Because he's thrown your issues, my issues, under the bus. He can do us on the left no good anymore.
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Why isn't Obama investigat
Why isn't Obama investigat
If Republican
Why are Obama-Demo
We have Obama-Demo
After just one month in the WhiteHouse
Obama and Emanuel never mentioned MitchMcCon
How does a Democratic president, on the heels of the most criminally corrupt administra
http://www
Obama's continuing just about all of the BushCheney policies, even going BushCo one better: How do any of Obama's 'most ardent supporters
As a Democrat, I don't know how any Democrat can get behind this. How do Obama's 'most ardent supporters
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So how can we expect him to be an effective front for, the face for, a champion of, our issues?
Anthony Weiner's supporters either aren't thinking this through or they really don't care about the issues he champions.
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This isn't about "friendshi
What Weiner has done is really a very sad act of a desperate and disturbed man. You don't take photos like that of yourself and send them to strangers, in accounts where you interact with the people in your role as a leader in the US government yet. That's cr@zy behavior.
Weiner's destroyed his own brand and the issues of those he's championed
Had Bill Clinton resigned after the discovery of Monica Lewinsky, Al Gore would have run in 2000 as an incumbent president. We'd probably never have had a Bush-Chene
When RichardCla
Bush's tax cuts wouldn't have happened, the surplus would have gone into a "lock box", and SocialSecu
We've got to stop throwing ourselves under the bus to save the careers of individual politician
Anthony Weiner has got to go.
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Would you want your wife or your daughter to 'friend' Weiner on FB?
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Dear President Obama,
Would you want Michelle or Sasha or Malia 'friend'in
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Weiner's office put out a statement confirming those reports and announcing that he had requested a "short leave of absence from the House of Representatives so that he can get evaluated and map out a course of treatment to make himself well."
I defended Bill Clinton, to the detriment of my own (and all of our) interests. Those are two years that directly enabled the destructio
There are more than 306 million Americans, about 650,000 of them are in Weiner's district. There are others who can do the job.
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Rehab takes way longer than two weeks.
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"I am absolutely confident that we can move forward on a plan that gets our debt under control, gets our deficit under control," Obama said in an interview to air Tuesday morning. " What it requires is everybody makes some sacrifices."
HP and MSNBC (I'm watching Lawrence O'Donnell right now) have been enormously generous to Weiner, by showing the least objectiona
I can understand not showing this one on the air (which according to Jonathan Turley, law professor at George Washington University
Better he leave now, before we see more ads like this in this coming campaign season. For those of us whose issues Weiner championed
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When thinking people are given a choice between mediocre and horrific, the best they can do is choose mediocrity. Or do you think that a McCain/Pal in ticket would have restored the rights of Americans?
The DLC got into power by refusing to defend the word 'liberal' when RonaldReag
Instead of educating the public about liberalism , and how liberals were responsibl
When informed of the issues, most Americans agree with liberal policies. We're talking about 70 percent of the American people. Neither they (nor I) would characteri
If the Bush years taught us anything, it's that anyone can sell anything to Americans, if you're stolid and relentless in your sales pitch and tactics. It's not that Bush and R0ve were geniuses and knew something that nobody else knew; Bush & R0ve were just more ruthless in doing what politician
Obama didn't get to be the first black president, vanquish the Clinton machine (to get the nomination
Obama and Democrats know how to do it -- They don't want to do it.
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I think we need to reform the party we have. I am not interested in voting for a third party.
Bashing Nader again?
2000 was a stolen election. It was a coup d'etat; a bloodless coup, but a coup nonetheles
Al Gore won. Gore got more votes in Florida. Any way it was counted (and the biggest point that people seem to forget is that there were 179,000 perfectly readable ballots that never got counted), Gore got more votes than Bush.
Whatever the means necessary to get Bush-Chene
If the means for getting Bush-Chene
For pity's sake, the CIA was working on GOP absentee ballots in the weeks leading up to election day in Florida. That was the most amazing revelation from the televised court hearings in the post-elect
Have people really forgotten all the different ways that this election was gamed by the GOP? And that's just in Florida. And just the ways that we learned about because of legal proceeding
There was a coup d'etat in this country in 2000. A bIoodless coup, but a coup nonetheles
We were about to embark on that national discussion 9 months into the Bush administra
By Wednesday, September 12th, all copies had been removed from the stands nationwide
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Harry Reid really has to go. He keeps the Senate moving at a snails pace. The Senate is dysfunctional, and Reid is too caught up in the disease, he cannot see the cure nor will he act to remove the obstacles to the Senate doing its job for the country.
Democrats have had everyone they need to do the job they were put into power to do for the American people.
During the Bush years, Democrats said if the People wanted change, they had to put Democrats in the majority in Congress. So in 2006, we did.
Nothing changed.
NancyPelos
They said, "You have to give us more Democrats -- 60 in the Senate".
In 2008, we did. We gave them 60 for the Democratic Caucus. And we gave them the White House.
Obama came into office with the wind at his back. More people voted for him than ever voted for any other presidenti
And no sooner did Obama get elected than he slammed the brakes on the momentum of his election & a filibuster
Obama's political team and machine also disbanded the grass roots groups across the nation. If you knew anything about politics, you'd know that this is a ded giveaway that the last thing these politician
Mushy-mind
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White House Poised To Take On Judicial Vacancy 'Crisis'
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How?
By nominating conservati
If it all wasn't so serious it would be comical, the number of times that this administra
And then another year passes.
"Really."
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Overseas. Outsourced.
[T]he $2.3 billion spent on green manufacturing tax credits went to companies employing workers in China, South Korea and Spain. Of the eleven top wind farm companies receiving ARRA grants, over 70 percent of the monies for turbines and blades went to overseas manufactur ers. It’s a sad commentary that ARRA monies have created over 6,000 new jobs overseas while U.S. workers got only a few hundred new jobs.
Professor of Law at George Washington University Jonathan Turley: Will courts view certain Anthony Weiner images as obscene?
Turley says that it is unlikely Weiner will face criminal charges over the facts as they are known so far–you're allowed to lie to the media and your spouse. But the latest image of exposed genitals may be viewed by some courts as obscene and possibly illegal.
This isn't about Vitter (or Ensign, or Coburn) -- It's irrelevant what Republican
I don't expect good behavior from Republican
This is about us, our issues, and our putting forth the best possible representa
Look at what's coming down the pike.
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Try to stay on point when you discuss issues and not resort to personal attacks, i.e., implying I'm not an old liberal FDR Democrat. I most definitely am, as should all real Democrats (old, FDR or other) who care about the issues and our 'brand'.
This isn't about Vitter, Ensign, or Coburn or Thomas (and of course Thomas should be impeached, and for substantiv
This isn't about "friendshi
What Weiner has done is really a very sad act of a desperate and disturbed man. You don't take photos like that of yourself and send them to strangers, in accounts where you interact with the people in your role as a leader in the US government yet. That's cr@zy behavior.
Weiner's destroyed his own brand and the issues of those he's championed
Had Bill Clinton resigned after the discovery of Monica Lewinsky, Al Gore would have run in 2000 as an incumbent president. We'd probably never have had a Bush-Chene
When RichardCla
Bush's tax cuts wouldn't have happened, the surplus would have gone into a "lock box", and SocialSecu
We've got to stop throwing ourselves under the bus to save the careers of individual politician
Anthony Weiner has got to go.
About Anthony Weiner
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Hoping to keep the support of a key Florida supporter, the president's political team suggested that top White House aides give him the sense that his voice was "being heard" inside the administra tion.
"Part of the job of the next American president is making Americans believe that our government is working for them, because right now they don't feel like it's working for them. They feel like it's working for special interests and it's working for corporations"
Not actually making the government work for them, but "make them believe" it is.
Lynn Woolsey, head of the Progressiv
Democrats have had the ability to accomplish putting the wars on budget (and thus end the wars) since they took over control of Congress in 2006 and haven't done it. They haven't needed Republican
As the head of the Progressiv
Woolsey then led the 79 to renege on the pledge.
Unbeknowns
Democrats have let Obama continue with just about all of Bush-Chene
Democrats have abdicated their Constituti
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Profession
Their only problem with this is that corporatio
Democrats in both chambers of Congress work as a team. And when they also hold the White House, the president controls and dictates all of it. They identify what they hope to achieve (pro-corpo
Democratic politician
Here's an example of how they tag-team us:
KEEP READING
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Weiner has no future in the US Congress. Nobody is going to work with him, nobody will associate with him, nobody will co-sponsor any of his legislatio
This is where the real meaning of 'bipartisa
When you're trying to sell your position on issues, issues that voters on the right have been programmed
It's over for Anthony Weiner, and it's a tragic end for a talented politician
Where the heck are the gray beards in the Democratic Party (and I don't mean the Clintons), taking Weiner aside and explaining the facts of life to him, that he's got to go and NOW!
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If Weiner remains, it's because the 'graybeard
Anthony Weiner's scandal lets the Democratic Party serve corporate interests. With Weiner in Congress, it lets the party fail to deliver on the populist promises they purport to be behind, without actually getting their own hands dirty.
An argument can be made for the fact that Weiner, while eloquent on the issues, is no great friend to us, no great champion of our issues because he's been no more successful at achieving our alleged shared goals than the rest of the Democratic Party's politician
Whether it's sexting during work hours, engaging in extremely risky behavior in your identity as a US congressma
Unless "getting the job done" means doing the People in.
You do all that, you 'play' on company time, you enjoy the perks of the office AFTER you're delivered on behalf of your constituen
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Just as a side note to think about, why would Obama do that if not to discourage already angry and discourage
Democrats lost seats in the 2010 midterms because of Obama's and Democrats failure to do what Democratic voters put them in office for in 2008. And it was Blue Dogs who lost their seats in huge numbers, and lost Democrats the control over the House and lowered the total in the Senate -- Progressiv
But how has Obama tried to spin that loss?
The same way that Republican
Since the midterm elections, Obama has tried to spin this as some mandate for more Republican
The old "Democrats are the lesser of two eviIs"-arg
Obama's continuing just about all of the BushCheney policies, even going BushCo one better: How do any of Obama's 'most ardent supporters
As a Democrat, I don't know how any Democrat can get behind this.
At this point, I would argue that Obama and Democrats are worse. Bush-Chene
Why should Obama and Democrats do anything for you if they know they've got you over a barrel, that you're going to vote for them no matter what, because you're terrified of Republican
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We don't goose step in a flock like the republicans.
I hear ya buddy, but voting for third parties is a wate of time. Pressure the Dems and help them win back the House.
Aides say that the president's been spending "a lot of time talking about Obama 2.0," brainstorm ing with administra tion officials about the best way to revamp the strategies & goals of the White House.
And despite the predictions that Democrats may relinquish a large degree of legislatin g power, including perhaps control of the House & even Senate, Obama isn't thinking of the next two years as a period that'll be marked with the same obstructiv e nature from the GOP.
"It may be that regardless of what happens after this election, [Republicans] feel more responsibl e, either because they didn't do as well as they anticipate d, & so the strategy of just saying no to everything & sitting on the sidelines & throwing bombs didn't work for them," Obama says. "Or they did reasonably well, in which case the American people are going to be looking to them to offer serious proposals & work with me in a serious way."
Dick Durbin says Obama's post-election agenda "will have to be limited & focused on the things that are achievable and high priorities for the American people." Tom Daschle says Obama has to reach out more: "The keyword is inclusion. He's got to find ways to be inclusive. "
I see, so when Obama can't get Congress to pass a progressiv==========e bill than thats Obama's fault
Harry Reid, the most worthless, useless public servant of them all, or the biggest and best tool Obama has to hide behind when he tries to blame it on Republican
Harry Reid, and Senate rule 22.
Harry Reid has always had the ability to play hardball with the GOP on filibuster
The Senate rules could have been changed at any time, too, by the way, and not just at the beginning of a new Congress. But Senate Democrats refused to do it, and floated the Iie that it could only be done at the beginning of a new Congress. The joke is that in the weeks before and after the midterms of 2010, we heard more big talk from Democrats about changing filibuster rules, and then, "If any change", they said, "only small (insignifi
They then dropped the subject entirely.
The entire Congress, both Democrats and Republican
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Obama has had ZERO cooperation from the right,fill ibuster after fillibuste r
Obama has had ZERO cooperation from the right,fill ibuster after fillibuste r
As an old, OLD liberal Democrat (an FDR Democrat) who has never voted for a Republican
I never advise people to sit out elections, because if you're not at the table, you're on the menu. It's what p!sses me off about Obama, and one of many reasons I know him to be a con man "betraying them that brung 'im". Because by shutting out liberals, the base, from his administra
A 'Tea Party'-lik
Unless Obama drops out, the only challenges to him will come from outside the Democratic Party (Republica
Michael Lerner's very powerful case for primarying Obama.
Ralph Nader's very powerful case for primarying Obama (and he's not running again).
Michael Lerner's argument is sweetly naive, IMHO, in that he's hopeful that Obama and Democrats can be moved to the left. I don't think that's true anymore. I think the party and the culture of Washington
I tell people that they're not limited to voting for just Democrats and Republican
They'd better start doing it because with each passing day it becomes impossible to turn it all around.
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The real shame is that Obama could have been a transcende
Obama and Democrats continued funneling the money into the no-win, destructiv
Just on the healthcare
The 'job creation'-
The SinglePaye
With single payer universal health care, there would be more treatment shifted to non-physic
If universal health coverage were to become an official reality, we'd need to expand training programs for both MDs and non-MD providers (more jobs created in education) which, in the long run, would mean cheaper and more effective service, along with more jobs created.
It would be a good thing. But Obama chooses the dark side. The CORPORATE side. Every time.
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