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Here's an example of the article's spin: Obama "has improved pay parity for women".
Lily Ledbetter has been at the top of Obama's 'most ardent supporters
To begin with, claiming Lily Ledbetter as Obama's achievemen
Obama & Democrats got into power on a pledge to change the way Washington works. Little is ever said or explained about what that really means. I'm going to attempt it:
By the time that elected officials manage to enact legislatio
With Lily Ledbetter, it took 45 years to have the legislatur
And it wasn't 45 years of Congresses trying to fix it. It was a year and a half. It was in response to the Supreme Court's decision in 2007 in one woman's lawsuit. It's not going to affect millions, or thousands or even hundreds of others - Ironically
If you want to tout passage of Lily Ledbetter then you're going to have to take the blame for not following it up immediatel
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That article, written last year, is pure spin. The claims are prepostero
When someone like Tim Dickinson writes an article claiming that what Obama has done in office is "progressi
You clearly don't understand legislatio
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193,000 Jobs: The True Cost of the Wasted $60 Billion in Iraq and Afghanistan
U.S. Wasting Billions While Tripling No-Bid Contracts After Decade of War in Iraq, Afghanista
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#6 - Continue the Insanity, meaning we keep doing the same thing* over and over again hoping for a different outcome.
[* - Same thing = Continue to refuse to believe our own 'lyin' eyes', keep doing what we've been doing for the past 20 years, continue voting for DLC-contro
Clue: There aren't any grown-ups to save us; we're 'it'.]
What happens when millions are out of work, no jobs, no money, no hope. London, Philadelph
"Quickly Brad, there are thousands of lives at stake... Brad any answer..." - Roy Neary, 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind
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#4 - A Third Party Challenge
We're not limited to voting for just Democrats and Republican
#5 - The "Oh, F I_I C K it, let's get it over with - Vote for Republican
The horse is out of the barn and we should just let the radical right have its way. It's not like Obama and the gutless Dems are going to stop them.KEEP READING
It would be carnage for a few years, people eating other people (though that really only happens in the southern tier of states), old people dying (why are we so eager to keep them alive, anyway?) and cats and dogs living together...
Let it all come crashing down--but let's make sure to kill Soc Sec and Medicaid/Medicare. These Tea Partiers should be allowed to pay what the market will bear, right?
By the way, while our Tea-Party/Real Men (or whatever those guys who wouldn't pay taxes a few years ago are called) friends talk about how they'd like to keep more of their hard earned money and give less to the idiots who "gave us Vietnam and Iraq," perhaps they'd like to pick up the bill for the grading and paving of the road that leads from their home to their office--ca n't be what, more than $60K a year.
While they're at it, maybe they'd like to cut a check for the police and fire people they'd have to employ to protect their home and valuables from damage. If they could get one guy for another $30K, they'd be lucky. Oh, and then there's that water and waste service, if you've got that.
Really, just let these fI_Ickers get what they want.
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#3 - Primary Obama
Here are two powerful arguments for challengin
Michael Lerner's very powerful case for primarying Obama.
Ralph Nader's very powerful case for primarying Obama (and no, 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
Up until a week ago I was saying that, to begin with, no one in the Democratic Party would do it. Due to the hierarchic
Liberals/p
The DLC has gotten too powerful, what with a Democrat in the White House and a Democratic
As I said, that was up until last week. Word has it that a challenge is coming, but it's really not a serious one, not intended for anyone to get the nomination from Obama.
So unless Obama drops out (in which case another corporate tool will take his place), the only legitimate challenges to him will come from outside the Democratic Party (Republica
So what's left?
KEEP READING
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Are you aware of any web sites, political organizations, splinter groups, or very smart, brave people who have another candidate to propose for 2012? We need an FDR, not a Hoover representi ng Democrats and the nation in the White House. It's clear Obama is not the person we thought we elected. There are millions of people like us, deeply disappoint ed in him and looking for any reasonable alternate in 2012.
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I get this question regularly so bear with me for a moment as I explain the situation as I see it, the options available, possible solutions, etc.
#1 - Sitting Out The Election
I never advise people to sit out elections because the first rule of politics is, "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 Democratic base, from his administra
#2 - Getting More Liberals/P
A 'Tea Party'-lik
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Obama, Democrats Plot Out Follow-Through On Jobs Speech
Obama took single payer off the table BEFORE negotiatio
Then Obama went and made a secret deal with the pharmaceut
When word came out about the deal, the White House Iied it.
Obama took single payer off the table before negotiatio
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Obama passed his healthcare legislatio
The fact is that Obama never pressured BenNelson (or BlancheLin
The DNC could've taken away reelection funds. They didn't.
Reid could've actually forced Republican
The Progressiv
Obama DID unleash the attack dogs to go after HowardDean when Dean said it was a lousy bill. Dean was then forced to get back into line. Obama went after Kucinich, the last remaining holdout on the Progressiv
There is nothing that Lieberman (or Nelson or Lincoln) is doing that Obama hasn't ordered. Obama and the DLC-Democr
And the proof of this is that (since you mention Nelson), when Obama needed Nelson re: StupakAmen
There could be 100 "progressi
Obama and the DLC worked their butts off to PREVENT more progressiv
BlueDog BlancheLin
Republican
Republican
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There is no other solution BUT to borrow and spend (unless you are comfortabl
We are a consumer-d
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His policies actually caused a double dip depression.
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No, that's not true. We're seeing virtually the identical situation now as happened in 1937 when, after the economy was improving, Republican
It was MASSIVE government spending, on the war, on Lend-Lease and employing war armaments' workers and soldiers, that got us out of the Depression
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FDR ushered the way out of the Great Depression with MASSIVE government spending.
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How Obama has handled the massive problems is EXACTLY how Republican
The real shame, the real tragedy for all of us is that Obama could have been a transcende
On the domestic front, the job creation possibilit
The 'job creation' reform that survived was billions spent on the Patriot Act-like invasion of citizens' privacy and the outsourcin
The SinglePaye
With single payer universal health care, there would be more treatment shifted to non-physic
It's true that if universal health coverage were to become an official reality, we'd need to expand training programs for both MDs and non-MD providers to insure there were enough to go around, but in the long run it would mean cheaper and more effective service, along with job creation. As would a real stimulus bill (been a job creator), and an alternativ
These are all good things, but Obama and the DLC-contro
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Obama can't really do anything about jobs with a hostile Congress, but he could at least draw stark contrasts with his Republican opponents.
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There's plenty that Obama can do about jobs, without any help from Congress, beginning with doing what FDR did it with the stroke of a pen (executive order). He created the Civil Works Administra
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Obama Halts EPA Regulation On Smog Standards
Smog Levels to Remain Higher than Scientists Suggest Safe for Public Health:
Smog—or ground-level ozone, as it is known to science—co ntributes to ailments ranging from asthma to heart attacks, as well as an estimated $500 million in crop damage every year. More than half of all Americans are currently exposed to unhealthy levels, largely due to emissions from two things: coal-fired power plants, and cars and trucks.
Back in 2008, in updating smog standards under the CleanAirAct, the BushAdmini stration ignored its scientific advisory panel‘s advice to lower those standards to between 60 and 70 parts-per- billion (ppb). Instead, new standards dropped to 75 ppb from 84 ppb. And that’s now where they will stay for the time being. When the ObamaAdmin istration took over, it promised to reconsider the 75 ppb standard. In a July 13 letter to Sen. TomCarper., Environmen talProtect ionAgency administra tor LisaJackso n wrote that “the 2008 standards were not legally defensible given the scientific evidence.” As in, the CleanAirAc t requires the government to take its scientists advice on effective levels of air pollution to protect public health.
That is exactly what the AmericanLungAssociat ion charged in a lawsuit it dropped in 2009 that now will be revived, according to CEO CharlesCon nor. That suit charged that the 75 ppb standard set by the BushAdmini stration did not uphold the scientific standards required by the CleanAirAc t. “For two years, the administra tion dragged its feet, delaying its decision, unnecessar ily putting lives at risk,” Connor said in a statement announcing the group’s determinat ion to renew the legal fight. “Its final decision not to enact a more protective ozone health standard is jeopardizi ng the health of millions of Americans, which is inexcusabl e.”
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Regulation
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Greek Debt Inspectors Suspend Review, Leave Athens After Deficit-Fixing Disagreements
Italian Town Printing Its Own Money
ROME (Reuters) – A small town in central Italy is trying to go independent and mint its own money in protest at government austerity cuts.
Filettino, set in rugged hill country around 100 km (65 miles) east of Rome, is rebelling against a proposal to merge the governments of towns with fewer than 1,000 inhabitant s to save money.
Filettino has only around 550 people, but instead of merging with neighboring Trevi, mayor Luca Sellari is trying to go it alone and set up a “principal ity” along the lines of the famous republic of San Marino to the north.
He has started minting Filettino’s own bank currency, the “Fiorito,” with his photo on the back, which he says is already being used by the townsfolk.
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Obama Halts EPA Regulation On Smog Standards
It's not too late.
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Don't worry Progressives, he is only doing this to help himself get re-elected . He is planning on a reinstatem ent if elected.
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What leads you to believe that?
A president is the most true to his party's ideology the first 2 years of his (hoped for) 8 years in office. Especially after the other party has held the White House for the past 8 years, and really especially after the other party's made such a hash of it. A president'
A president is at his most powerful then, his bully pulpit is stuffed to the gills and overflowin
After that first two years, then the first mid-term elections, it's a steady move to the middle, to attract the Independen
If he gets reelected, he'll be working on his legacy, his post-White House years. Positionin
What we've seen is Obama as 'left' as he's ever going to be, and that ain't anything. With his readiness to cut social programs at this stage in his presidency
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U.S. Adds Zero New Jobs In August As Jobless Rate Stuck At 9.1 Percent (VIDEO)
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The TeaParty is an effective nemesis for Obama and the DLC-contro
If Obama and the DLC-Democr
Instead of taking to the bully pulpit and announcing increased security on government properties hosting these events, Obama disappeare
What Obama did instead during the same TownHall time period was unleash federal security forces to Pittsburgh (using the new weaponry on dissenters who the 'establish
Obama has no problem quelling dissent or inspiring our better angels when he wants or needs to.
Obama wants to drive a wedge between the base of the Republican
The Tea Party serves this end in several ways. Chiefly though, it lets Democrats keep a legislativ
Obama didn't invent this plan -- It's been on the drawing boards of the DLC for years.
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