GiannaX
Commented 19 minutes ago in Politics
“And, who are You?!”
Preserving the rule of law underpins how the US has been the most successful
We're in a brand new era, a new phase, where the game plan for ending the US is evident for anyone to see. And it begins and ends with the rule of law. By refusing to investigat
BushCo broke federal US laws, and the rule of law applies to all Americans, elected officials, too. Elected officials especially
The United States works, or it did work, because of a covenant We The People make with our government
It is under those conditions that we consent to be governed.
When we no longer trust in the process, when we no longer trust that the selection process by which our elected representa
And no government can stand once that happens.
For a president of the United States not to equally apply the law to all people, presidents
Not prosecutin
From those precedents spring aberration -- Obama already has built upon Bush's claims of 'Unitary Executive'
How any Democrat defends that is beyond my understand
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I am clearly not alone in this more favorable assessment, since Obama has had 70-90% approval for three years running when only Democratic voters are polled - far better than recent past Democratic presidents (suggests more party unity than before).
So, you're shilling for Ratigan?
Read here.
If you read the whole thread, you'd have found an answer to your question.
And it's not just at the link I provided, but at the time cable pundits and Washington reporters were all over the cable news channels (CNN and MSNBC) stating it, too. Go to their archives and read their transcript
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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 guess you also missed the news about 2004, Ohio, New Mexico, et al, and voting machine anomalies. Kerry won Ohio and therefore won the election. The court filing in the King Lincoln Bronzevill
The American people are not moderate or centrist, and don't reject the leftist policies, but it sure helps corporatio
The DLC got into power by refusing to defend the word 'liberal' when RonaldReag
KEEP READING
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In 2000 and 2004 they voted for Bush.
If you're trying to follow all of this by who supports and who objects (instead of understand
The wild card in all this, that neither party can count on or guarantee (although they do try and can be assured of managing these groups to a great degree) is any possible momentum stirred within their base's grass roots. The old adage that "Play with fire and you're sure to get burned" is always a possibilit
The Tea Party is controllab
I'll leave that to you to mull over.
In the meantime, I suggest that you learn what's in the legislatio
Just sayin'.
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So sign this.
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The problem is money.
Currently, this is the best opportunit
About Congress
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If Obama is a one term president, he will have delivered to the CorporateM
Over the course of US history, corporatio
Democrats (controlle
If you must continue to delude yourself into thinking Obama's a good guy who never would have started those wars, and who has only the best of intentions but got a bad deal (I don't share that opinion anymore), then think of all this as a business plan where the CorporateM
And after 8 years of BushCheney the American people aren't going to go for another team like that. They're going to want HOPE and CHANGE, with a persona they can believe in and trust. BarackObam
The truth is that Obama is no better than BushCheney
Unless and until there is drastic and uncompromi
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GET MONEY OUT OF POLITICS!
Go there, sign the petition.
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The last best chance here.
About Congress
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We live by, or used to for the first couple of hundred years of this country, the 'rule of law', and nobody is labeled a traitor, deserving of the ultimate penalty without being charged and tried.
The fact that you don't know this, that you would repeat rhetoric blather that is actually just backwards justifying of a feel-good outcome you'd like to see, makes you ignorant, dangerousl
We do NOT do that. We have clear laws that we have decided on. We try people for their actions when they break those laws. We do it publicly. We aren't afraid of what they have to say. A democracy, a democratic republic can not survive otherwise.
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I don't vote for Republican
Democratic voters been voting for Republican
In politics, in life, there really is only now. Each day that conditions remain the same or further declines (Obama has advanced BushCheney positions that should have you marching on Washington ), a sort of stare decisis sets in, making it more difficult (if not impossible ) to turn around. We have become the proverbial boiled frogs; there's a generation that's been born and doesn't know about life pre-9/11 and 4th amendment protection
No, putting Obama back in the White House is not the answer.
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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Before the 2010 midterms, Obama broadcast that he would be doing more of the same, even if Democrats remained the majority and in control of both Houses of Congress. More caving by Obama and Democrats, to Republican
Whether Democrats gained seats or lost control of the Congress, Obama said he was going to do more caving. What was he hoping to achieve by doing that by announcing that (along with Obama's flip-flopp
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 WhiteHouse .
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."
DickDurbin 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." TomDaschle says Obama has to reach out more: "The keyword is inclusion. He's got to find ways to be inclusive. "
Actually, they didn't (vote for Republican
Obama and the DLC-contro
Blue Dog Blanche Lincoln over progressiv
Republican
Obama himself effectivel
Republican
By the way, by getting involved in the election at the primaries' stage, Obama became the first sitting president in US history to interfere with the citizens' very limited rights in this democratic republic to select who they will trust to make laws to which they consent to be governed.
Citizens have little enough of a Constituti
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Here's one EzraKlein article talking about Obama's offer to make the Bush Tax Cuts permanent:
What Obama offered Boehner was an opportunity to take the BushTaxCut s off the table. So though $800 billion in revenue sounds sizable, it’s only half as much in total revenue as the WhiteHouse ’s April proposal, two-fifths as much as SimpsonBow les wanted, and one-fifth what we’d get if the BushTaxCut s expire next year.
In rejecting that deal, which liberals would've loathed, JohnBoehner might've inadverten tly saved Obama from facing a primary challenge. More to the point, he might've locked in higher taxes down the road. Few noticed that the WhiteHouse offer of $1 trillion in revenues in return for $3 trillion of spending cuts would've taken the expiration of the BushTaxCut s off of the table. That would mean the tax debate concluded this year, a time when the debt ceiling gives the GOP leverage, rather than next year, when the BushTaxCut s are set to expire and the WhiteHouse has most of the leverage.
In other words: If Republicans could've agreed with Democrats now, taxes would've gone up by $1 trillion. If they can’t agree with Democrats next year, they’ll go up by more than $4 trillion. And Republican s had a better hand this year than next year. I expect they’ll come to wish they’d played it.
Here’s what appears to have been in the $4 trillion deal they offered the Republicans: A two-year increase in the Medicare eligibilit y age. Chained-CP I, which amounts to a $200 billion cut to SocialSecu rity benefits. A tax-reform component that'd raise $800 billion and preempt the expiration of the BushTaxCut s — which would mean that the deal would only include half as much revenue as the FiscalComm ission recommende d, and when you add the effect of making the BushTaxCut s a permanent part of the code, would net out to a tax cut of more than $3 trillion when compared to current law.
So why isn't the Justice Department prosecutin
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And my statement still stands.
A Democratic president (and Democratic congressme
Nothing of what you said changes the fact that Obama had little to do with the Lily Ledbetter Act and that Lily Ledbetter affects a miniscule few, and that the real reforms needed for parity in wages between the sexes in order to bring lawsuits under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, i.e., disclosure of salary differenti
The National Women's Law Center has said nothing different from what I've said. It's a political organizati
Liberal organizati
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The old 'lesser of two evils'-arg
When Obama has continued just about all of BushCheney
What would Obama/Demo
He/They are for more *AFTA treaties, which means more Americans' jobs leaving the US.
Are Obama/Demo
Are Obama/Demo
Are Obama/Demo
Are Obama/Demo
Are Obama/Demo
Didn't Obama just have an American citizen killed, no charges, no due process? Yes.
If George W. Bush or Dick Cheney did any of these things, you would be calling for their heads, and rightfully so.
Obama's/De
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According to whom?
For you to believe that means you really don't understand the issues and what Obama has and hasn't done. One example, but certainly not the only example, is Lily Ledbetter, which has been at the top of Obama's 'most ardent supporters
To begin with, claiming Lily Ledbetter as Obama's achievemen
Obama and 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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For starters, have you signed this?
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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."
By the way, SinglePaye
Had Republican
A weak PublicOpti
Then Democrats caved over the budget.
When the budget process began, Republican congressma
At $64 billion and Democrats moved all the way over to where Paul Ryan was when the process began. So even if Democrats got that number (which in Washington would be considered a "win" for Democrats)
Nothing's going to change until and unless Obama and Democratic politician
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Given how voting districts are drawn, the outcome of the 2008 election made government as Democratic as it's ever going to get in the foreseeabl
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"The voters bear some blame," Davis added, noting recent elections in which the greatest energies were on the edges, not the middle.
The old "lesser of two eviIs" argument.
In spite of the fact that Obama's continuing just about all 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'd argue that Obama-Demo
Consider our elections as a business plan where the 'Corporate
If you want to l!e the country into war for oil and profiteeri
And after 8 years of BushCheney the American people aren't going to go for another team like that. They're going to want HOPE and CHANGE, with a persona they can believe in and trust. BarackObam
Obama's 'most ardent admirers' just like the packaging better. I'm not talking skin color, although that may be a factor for some of them; I'm talking about how a 'D' after the name is a brand they trust believe and trust in, despite the fact that it's the same 'soap' (product).
You continue to support Obama-Demo
Why should Obama-Demo
About Marriage
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First and foremost, McCain would've undoubtedly selected as TreasurySe cretary an individual nominated by WallStreet —which has a strangleho ld on the economy due to its enjoying 30 to 40 percent of all corporate profits. If he didn’t select TimGeithne r, a reliable servant of financial interests whose nomination might have allowed McCain to trumpet his “maverick” credential s, whoever he did select would clearly have also moved to bail out the financial institutio ns and allow them to water down needed financial reforms.
Ditto for the head of his NationalEconomicCoun cil. Although appointing LarrySumme rs might have been a bit of a stretch, despite his yeoman work in destroying financial regulation —thus enriching his old boss RobertRubi n and helping cause the Crash of 2008—McCai n could easily have found a JackKemp-l ike Republican “supply-si der” who would have duplicated Summers’ signal achievemen t of expanding the deficit to the highest level since 1950 (though perhaps with a slightly higher percentage of tax cuts than the Obama stimulus). The economy would have continued to sputter along, with growth rates and joblessnes s levels little different from today’s, and possibly even worse.
But McCain’s election would have produced a major political difference: It would have increased Democratic clout in the House and Senate.
I swear you Obamaphile
If I wanted Republican policies and legislatio
If McCain Had Won
McCain would probably have approved a failed troop surge in Afghanistan, engaged in worldwide extrajudic ial assassinat ion, destabiliz ed nuclear-ar med Pakistan, failed to bring Israel’s BenjaminNe tanyahu to the negotiatin g table, expanded prosecutio n of whistle-bl owers, sought to expand executive branch power, failed to close Guantanamo , failed to act on climate change, pushed both nuclear energy and opened new areas to domestic oil drilling, failed to reform the financial sector enough to prevent another financial catastroph e, supported an extension of the BushTaxCuts for the rich, presided over a growing divide between rich and poor, and failed to lower the jobless rate.
Nothing reveals the true state of American politics today more, however, than the fact that has undertaken all of these actions and, even more significantly, left the Democratic Party far weaker than it would have been had McCain been elected. Few issues are more important than seeing behind the screen of a myth-makin g mass media, and understand ing what this demonstrat es about how power in America really works—and what needs to be done to change it.
Has Obama changed? What would Obama/Demo
He/They are for more *AFTA treaties, which means more Americans' jobs leaving the US.
Are Obama/Demo
Are Obama/Demo
Are Obama/Demo
Are Obama/Demo
Are Obama/Demo
Obama's/De
About Barack Obama
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