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Obama Takes Responsibility For Voter Frustration On Election Night

Wednesday, November 3, 2010


Let's be real here -- You guys don't give a tinker's d@mn about deficits. You didn't care about them when Bush & Cheney were running them up, and you won't care when Boehner lifts the debt ceiling in a few months.



There are certain economic facts of life, and one of them is that in times like these, you have to spend money to make money. The only choices available to us are to really grease the wheels to put people to work on big infrastructure projects or not to. That's it. If we don't, we're looking at a slide down deep into that Depression nobody wants to say that we're in. That's a whole lot more people out of work, at least another decade of dire times. If that's the choice, expect wars (with us, beyond Afghanistan & Iraq), chaos and upheaval here at home, famine, water shortgages, and I don't want to even go into it.



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I'm a liberal & I was calling for Feingold's ousting.



I think you misunderstand, in general, what happened & what's happening in the coming months & years from the left, and despite what you see online from Feingold & Grayson fans, the loss of them yesterday is no big deal, & actually a good thing in the long run.



Feingold wasn't an 'earner'; he's been a drain, a liability. He's not even been earning his own keep. When we keep losing ground, not even maintaining the status quo, then we need to identify & clear out the de@d wood.

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Just voting right on a bill isn't enough. Perhaps at one time, life in the Senate could be like that ('gentlemen' gathering together, debating, 'Marquess of Queensberry'-type rules, vote, majority decides, no hard feelings, move on to the next issue), but that's not what's been true of our political system for a long time.



Feingold had a longer run than his record deserved. His vote on the PatriotAct was in 2001. McCain-Feingold, his crowning legislative achievement, was in 2002 (& was overturned last year). His no vote on TARP was 2 years ago.



I like Russ Feingold; he's just the wrong guy for the job.



Grayson, that's another story for another day.
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I'll point you to this to explain overall what happened (and the fact that the Blue Dogs were crushed yesterday, and most other liberals survived just fine, even after pundits greatly exaggerated their early demise):



http://www­.salon.com­/news/opin­ion/glenn_­greenwald/
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He's not talking about a third party.



He's talking about doing to the Democratic Party (currently controlled by the DLC) what the Tea Party did to the Republican Party.
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You know that political parties have platforms, and stand for particular things, don't you?
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Alvin Greene received 358k votes -- 184k more than Chris Coons, 77k more than Joe Manchin. And just 3k fewer than Harry Reid.
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