You must be very young not to know history accurately
The SEC is another department that worked great until corporatio
The IMF didn't actually come into being until after FDR died. The world's economy (as was civlizatio
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Utter nonsense.
Obama made the same mistake going into this "recession
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What pulled us out of the depression was World War II
If you and people like you continue supporting Obama instead of getting a real Democratic candidate, we will have the same Republican policies and legislatio
Obama has already continued just about all of the Bush-Chene
As a Democrat, I don't know how any Democrat can get behind this.
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The list of issues that 'pragmatis
If 'pragmatis
If 'pragmatis
If 'pragmatis
[Here's another example of the folly of 'pragmatis
If it isn't affecting them, it won't affect them, and so it's nothing that they should have to waste their time on. Or in their 'bottom line'.
There's nothing "pragmatic
But it's certainly not a Democratic value.
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The #1 obstacle to getting to what we thought we were voting for when we put Obama and Democrats into power: The'Pragmatis
Lord, help us from those ever "well-mean
We hear about "pragmatis
'Pragmatis
'Pragmatis
Two of the best recent examples of the Obama Administra
See here.
And here.
And here.
And here.
KEEP READING
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You might find this interestin
A psychologi
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BEFORE THE MIDTERMS, Obama broadcast that he would be doing more of the same, more caving by Obama & Democrats, to Republican
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. "
Republican
Just to show you where Obama's and the DLC's real heart lies, there are so many things he and the DLC/DNC could have done, could be doing, to get real Democratic legislatio
Obama and the DNC could have cut off support to any Blue Dogs, cut money, cut committee assignment
There is plenty that a President and a Speaker of the House and a Senate Majority Leader can do to pressure representa
Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, and all Democrats in leadership positions took tools off the table for fighting BushCheney and beating Republican
Obama and Democrats in Congress continuing BushCheney
There is nothing that the Blue Dogs are doing that Obama and the DLC doesn't want them to do.
Before the midterms of 2010, I asked, facetiousl
How much evidence do you need before you realize that Obama isn't any kind of Democrat?
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#4 - A Third Party Challenge
We're not limited to voting for just Democrats and Republican
#5 - The "Oh, screw 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 Social Security 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 a-holes get what they want.
Real Democratic policies aren't that hard to sell to Americans. When most Americans want Medicare and other government programs which they've benefitted from to continue and teabaggers shout "No government control of healthcare
The DLC got into power by refusing to defend the word 'liberal' when RonaldReag
When informed of the issues, most Americans agree with liberal policies. 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 Rove were geniuses and knew something that nobody else knew; Bush and Rove were just more ruthless doing what politician
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I think many are coming to the conclusion I've come to: That they had mistakenly cut Obama much slack (believing him to be a good and noble man with a likable persona who had the misfortune to have inherited BushCheney
By Chris Hedges:
Barack Obama’s politically expedient decision to betray and abandon his pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, exposed his cowardice and moral bankruptcy . In that moment, playing the part of Judas, he surrendere d the last shreds of his integrity. He became nothing more than a pawn of power, or as Cornel West says, “a black mascot for Wall Street.” Obama, once the glitter of power fades, will have to grapple with the fact that he was a traitor not only to his pastor, the man who married him and Michelle, who baptized his children and who kept him spirituall y and morally grounded, but to himself. Wright retains what is most precious in life and what Obama has squandered —his soul.
While I have no idea if Obama was threatened
If you go back and watch Candidate Obama's speeches, interviews and debates in 2008, listen with your now 'experienc
Obama got into office by misleading Democratic voters. He ran to the left of Hillary Clinton. It's why even his 'most ardent admirers' still argue about whether he's a liberal or a centrist or a moderate Republican
Each party's candidates use high-price
After having read his books, listened to all of his speeches/i
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Obama and the DLC have worked their butts off preventing progressiv
To add insult to the injury, before the 2010 midterms, Obama broadcast that he would be doing more of the same, more caving by Obama & Democrats, to Republican
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. "
And Republican
Harry Reid could've actually forced Republican
Harry Reid has had no problem forcing the GOP to actually filibuster when it's something that the DLC wants and perceives it needs. For example, when Democrats needed unemployme
Democrats could even have changed the supermajor
But Democrats put off their critics for not forcing the Republican
They didn't.
There's not just one way (or even two) for Democrats to get bills passed without Republican votes.
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But Obama and the DLC-contro
Democrats have had everyone they need to do the job they were put into power to do for the American people. They don't want to do it.
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So payroll tax holidays make sense to you? Less money going into the Social Security fund?
The solution is to raise the cap.
And the only place I hear Hillary mentioned is here. She's not the answer. She's more of the same, only worse. She and Bill co-founded the DLC. Obama ran to Hillary's left. Obama has surrounded himself with Clintonite
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As far as too much money in politics, yes.
Have you signed this petition yet?
Dylan Ratigan kicked off the campaign to GET MONEY OUT OF POLITICS this past week.
Ratigan has committed to using his show on MSNBC as a platform to force this issue to the center of the 2012 elections with a petition for a Constituti
Here is the proposed Constituti
"No person, corporation or business entity of any type, domestic or foreign, shall be allowed to contribute money, directly or indirectly , to any candidate for Federal office or to contribute money on behalf of or opposed to any type of campaign for Federal office. Notwithsta nding any other provision of law, campaign contributi ons to candidates for Federal office shall not constitute speech of any kind as guaranteed by the U.S. Constituti on or any amendment to the U. S. Constituti on. Congress shall set forth a federal holiday for the purposes of voting for candidates for Federal office."
The TeaParty is an effective nemesis for Obama: A paper tiger that serves the purpose of scaring Democratic voters into voting against their own interests and accepting Obama's embrace of BushCheney
If the TeaParty was a threat to Obama, if Obama and DLC-Democr
What Obama also did during the same TownHall time period? He unleashed federal security forces to Pittsburgh to break up peaceful protests of the G20 meeting, 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 it several ways. Chiefly though, It lets Democrats keep a legislativ
Obama didn't invent this plan, by the way; it's been on the drawing boards of the DLC for years.
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We on the left have been doing it your way, the DLC's way, for over 20 years and the government and the Democratic Party keeps moving farther to the right. That's because your way is to cave, to lie to the American people and put Republican
If you and I are on the same side, as you insist, and want real Democratic policies, and going about getting them your way (protectin
When do you realize that you've become that classic definition for 'insan!ty' ("Doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results")?
Do you ever realize it?
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It wasn't a primary challenge that caused JimmyCarte
Obama came into office with the wind at his back. More people voted for him, a black man in good old raclst America, than ever voted for any other presidenti
That's 'Titanium' political capital, and Obama came into office oozing it. So much that the GOP was in a puddle in the gutter outside of the US Capitol. Is that really a vague memory? After the 2008 election, Republican
His political team and machine also disbanded the grassroots groups across the nation. If you knew anything about politics, you'd know that this is a dead giveaway that the last thing these politician
And after more than a year of making secret deals with BigInsuran
Obama's 'most ardent supporters
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Hillary would have been no different.
Do people actually forget that Hillary and Bill were co-founder
And that Obama ran to Hillary's left?
Obama golfed with Bill last weekend and the very next day Obama gave Clinton's 'Sistah Souljah's' speech to the Congressio
Obama has surrounded himself not only with the Clintons, but with Clintonite
About Barack Obama
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"...that we're not actually broke."
Yes we are
Incidental
It's too late for that now.
For the past 35 years I've been writing about how after the Vietnam War ended and Richard Nixon resigned from office, the left packed up their protest signs and went back to pursue happiness in the suburbs while conservati
Like marriage, a healthy people-cen
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Funny you should ask. Read here.
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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
About Barack Obama
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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.
#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
About Barack Obama
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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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Republican
Just to show you where Obama's and the DLC's real heart lies, there are so many things he and the DLC/DNC could have done, could be doing, to get real Democratic legislatio
Obama and the DNC could have cut off support to any Blue Dogs, cut money, cut committee assignment
There is plenty that a President and a Speaker of the House and a Senate Majority Leader can do to pressure representa
Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, and all Democrats in leadership positions took tools off the table for fighting BushCheney and beating Republican
Obama and Democrats in Congress continuing BushCheney
There is nothing that the Blue Dogs are doing that Obama and the DLC doesn't want them to do.
Before the midterms of 2010, I asked, facetiousl
How much evidence is needed before Obama's 'most ardent supporters
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