A pocket veto, by definition, can only occur when Congress has adjourned.
The Senate is still in session.
Apparently the bill will become law tomorrow.
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That wasn't the agreement.
The agreement wasn't that Harry Reid adjourn the Senate and Obama wouldn't make recess appointments.
The agreement was that Harry Reid keep the Senate open, pro forma, to prevent Obama from making recess appointments.
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Correct, but then it would be up to Congress, if it was able to override the veto with a 2/3rds majority vote.
Harry Reid cut a deal with Mitch McConnell to keep open pro forma, to keep Obama from making recess appointments.
There are several possible outcomes; the jubilation is premature.
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You need to get your head out of your @$$.
Put down the Kool-Aid, step away from the faxed talking points ("Sound like the old trailers for Japanese horror films of the 1950s, like Rodan -- 'OMIGOD, THE REPUBLICANS ARE COMING!!'").
The fear campaign again that we thought we were getting rid of when we put Democrats and Obama into power. No more pre-election Osama B!n Laden tapes leaked. No more 'overseas travel advisories', and non-specific terr0rist threats plastered all over the media in the weeks before an election.
We were supposed to be done with all that; Democrats were supposed to be better.
The fact of the matter is that once teabagger Scott Brown got elected, he moved to the middle, is in the Republican Caucus (he ran as a Republican) votes like one, and said, "Sarah Palin who?"
Sarah Palin herself governed Alaska as a moderate Republican, which is no different than any DLCer governs. If you're not afraid of Evan Bayh who is to the right of moderate Republicanism, you have no business being afraid of Sarah Palin.
Liberals need to take control of the Democratic Party and start educating the American people on what liberal policies are, explain them in detail and then discuss why they are the solution. Liberal policies were, after all, what made this country great, built the American dream and created the greatest middle class in the history of the world. And then Nixon came along and wrecked it all to heII.
But that is going to take a while, and it's never going to be possible with the DLC controlling the Democratic Party.
The DLC is ideologically aligned with Republicans. It's the old Republican party, before Ralph Reed delivered an organized Christian Right to the Republican Party. Pro-corporate, anti-populist, pro-war, anti-civil rights, pro-police state, chipping away at privacy rights, abortion rights -- There's no defending that out of any Democrat.
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Blue dog corporate wh0res at it again. Looks like the Prez's first veto.
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While he infuses their campaigns with cash:
http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=8558
The DNC is pumping money into Blue Dogs' campaigns, and not so much into (in trouble) Progressives' campaigns.
Maybe Obama will veto, maybe he won't. A lot will depend on how much noise this story gets.
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Obama never pressured any Blue Dog, by their own admission. The Democratic leadership has all kinds of tools it can use to keep loyalty within the caucus, from taking away committee chairs of members that join with Republicans to filibuster or take away reelection funds coming election time, etc., but it hasn't used any of them because Lieberman & BlueDogs (& Republicans) provide cover to Obama & the DLC-controlled Democratic Party, to let them continue to serve corporate interests over the interests of the People.
Since Obama has gotten into office, he's continued most of Bush's policies & his 'accomplishments' are being spun as "reform" when, in fact, they're Republican in nature. There could be 100 "progressives" in the Senate & 435 in the House, & they & Obama would still find a way to deliver to corporations instead of the People. And then try to blame it on Republicans.
It's way past time to get the DLC-Democrats out of office, out of the Democratic Party, and put real Democrats in. That's what we thought we were doing when we put Obama in over HillaryClinton. But in came Obama who put the Clinton team into the WhiteHouse, and not one liberal in his administration. He actually kept liberals neutralized for close to a year, with vague promises and nomination paralysis (waiting to be confirmed, where they weren't free to speak out about his Republican-ways. No recess appointments, just half-hearted excuses). The only ones who Obama is tough with is the DemocraticParty's base. So either he's corrupt or he's inept, and can only be powerful beating up on his own. Whichever it is, corrupt or inept, the American people lose out.
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Dems don't have the majority they need in Congress.
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Democrats have 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.
Democrats said, "You have to give us more Democrats -- 60 in the Senate". In 2008, we gave them the 60. And the White House.
Obama came into office with the wind at his back. More people voted for him, a black man in America, than ever in the history of the US. They did it because of his ability to persuade that he was going to change the system, end the corporatocracy, lobbyism in government -- He was going to be the People's president, not a corporate t00I.
And no sooner did Obama get elected than he slammed the brakes on the momentum of his election & a filibuster-proof Senate (tentative yet, with 2 senators, Kennedy & Byrd, at d.e.a.t.h's door), Obama did a 180-degree turn on his promises & sloooooowed everything down. To "work in a bipartisan manner with Republicans", after Republicans had already announced they were going to block everything Democrats wanted to do, vote no on everything, in lockstep.
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If Obama really wanted BlueDogs' votes or JoeLieberman's vote on legislation like real healthcare reform, he would have done to Lieberman & the BlueDogs what he did to DennisKucinich (the last hold-out on the ProgressiveCaucus, all of whom had pledged to vote for a healthcare bill only if it had a public option, and who all caved). Obama flew to Cleveland and rallied Kucinich's constituents against him and he got Kucinich's vote.
Where was that mentality with JoeLieberman, BlancheLincoln, the other BlueDogs and even OlympiaSnowe? If the president of the UnitedStates had used the bully pulpit against them, a lot of progressives would have respected that and said, "You tried your best". But Obama didn't try. He cut a deal, months earlier, cutting the will of the People off at the knees. The public is powerless in backroom deals.
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