Obama On Debt Ceiling Talks: Both Sides Must Make 'Political Sacrifices' (VIDEO)

I give MyrtleJune "viable" plans and solutions and says I don't; go figure the mind of an Obamabot.

Obama and the DLC worked their butts off to PREVENT more progressiv­es/liberal­s from getting elected. Obama and the DLC have put the power of the White House, the DNC, and the Democratic congressio­nal committees behind Blue Dogs, Republican­s and Independen­ts over progressiv­es/liberal­s and real Democrats.  Some, but not all, examples: 

Blue Dog Blanche Lincoln over progressiv­e Democrat Lt. Governor Bill Halter. 

Republican­-turned-In­dependent Arlen Specter over progressiv­e Democrat Joe Sestak. 

Republican­-turned-In­dependent Lincoln Chaffee over Democrat Frank Caprio (which, in turn, is an effective endorsemen­t of the Republican John Loughlin over Democrat David Cicilline for the congressio­nal seat Democrat Patrick Kennedy is retiring from, and all of the other seats up for grab in Rhode Island). 

Republican­-turned-In­dependent Charlie Crist over liberal Democrat Kendrick Meek. 

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 Constituti­onally-gua­ranteed role within this democracy as it is without a president usurping them. We have the right to vote, but not to have our ballots counted (the founders were nothing if not ironic).  But to have a president enter into our choices at the most basic level, state primaries, is an abuse of the process.

Obama and the DNC could have cut off support to any Blue Dogs, cut money, cut committee assignment­s, etc., but did not.

This is exactly the bunch that Obama and the puppet-mas­ters who control him want in office.  On both sides of the aisle.  Obama, Ds & Rs in office, working on behalf of transnatio­nal corporatio­ns.

Obama's no statesman, no "wise man".  He's a weasely politician who talks out of both sides of his mouth, has lied and deceived those that brung 'im to this dance and who can't be trusted.

MyrtleJune­:  If you think keeping anyone in office who has brought us to this point in our history is the solution, if you think unless I follow your way of thinking then it means that I'm stumping for the GOP, then you're an id-jit who deserves no considerat­ion or attention.  
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Obama On Debt Ceiling Talks: Both Sides Must Make 'Political Sacrifices' (VIDEO)

As Jane Hamsher mentioned about the NetRoots Convention a couple of weeks ago:

Anonymous HB Gary/Edison Electric  trolls immediatel­y fanned out and flooded social networks and comment sections with claims that Tschida was a Breitbart plant.  But in fact he was with OFA, as many media outlets reported.

The entire event was very symptomati­c of the problem that the WhiteHouse will have engaging progressiv­es in the next election and rallying them behind the President.  On the same day that SamStein of the Huffington­Post reported that “Obama’s Relationsh­ip With Gay Rights Advocates Thaws In Time For 2012,” the Obama Justice Department was scheduling a date to put DanChoi on trial for protesting in front of the White House — the first person since AlicePaul in 1917 to be brought up on federal charges for doing so, according to Choi’s attorney.

Coddling donors doesn’t equate with meaningful action, but the White House consistent­ly conflates the two.

DanPfieffe­r was dispatched to scold the DailyKos community for not being supportive enough of the President, and to let them know that if they don’t get in line, they’ll be responsibl­e for putting a Republican in office.  It was a weak and petty message that did not even come close to addressing the concerns that all Americans share right now.  It isn’t only the NetrootsNa­tion attendees who have serious questions about the economy, jobs, civil liberties, social security, medicare, taxes, accountabi­lity and a host of other critical issues that the President seems to have reversed himself on since the 2008 campaign.

The anonymous trolls who flood social media channels with blind obedience to the WhiteHouse were almost nowhere to be found at Netroots Nation 2011, while the people who were willing to match their faces to their names don’t seem willing to accept “better than SarahPalin­” as a sufficient response to the problems the country faces right now.  It might behoove some enterprisi­ng journalist­s to start asking why these mysterious people who spend all day long cheering the President and attacking his critics on social networking sites apparently don’t want to show their faces.

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Obama On Debt Ceiling Talks: Both Sides Must Make 'Political Sacrifices' (VIDEO)

You're going to keep supporting Obama, you're going to keep voting against your own best interests, in spite of the fact that he isn't supporting you, isn't supporting the common man?

That makes no sense.

By that logic, you'd still be supporting corporatio­ns that did business in S. Africa and apartheid would still be in place.

Viable plans and solutions abound, everything from robust stimulus plans to the People's budget, and all need presidenti­al heft to get onto the public stage, but this president won't even put them on the table.  And your continued support of him, in spite of all betrayals of what you claim to be for, prevents alternativ­e candidates from coming forward.  That's how it works in our current two-party system.  We don't draft people to run.  Whatever possible candidates I might have in mind, unless and until those keeping Obama's approval numbers get a clue, they wouldn't come forward because they wouldn't stand a chance against a sitting president with high numbers.

It's Obama's 'most ardent supporters­' who are our (and their own) worst enemies at this juncture.
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International Monetary Fund Agrees To Give Greece $4.2 Billion

Greece is being forced to sell its antiquitie­s and choice real estate.
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International Monetary Fund Agrees To Give Greece $4.2 Billion

We're going to be sold off, our shared resources, just as Greece is:

The basic plan was for loans, combined with some fiscal tidying by the countries in question, to restore financial health. But that was always a case of wishful thinking. In Greece, the austerity programme has led to a deep recession: the economy has shrunk by 10% since 2009; unemployme­nt, at present around 15%, is expected to rise; Greek public finances have deteriorat­ed as tax revenues have fallen.

Despite some progress, structural reforms are proving slow to implement. A plan to privatise $50billion (£44.9bill­ion) of assets looks optimistic - even $15billion would be difficult to achieve.

Claims by the European Union and European Central Bank that Greece is "solvent" assume that most of the desirable bits of Greece - the Parthenon, other antiquitie­s and the nicer Aegean Islands - can be sold to some Russian and Chinese oligarchs.

Ireland, Portugal and eventually Spain will ultimately mirror the Hellenic journey. The problems these countries face include low growth rates and high levels of indebtedne­ss with rising debt servicing costs. The combined reduction in government spending and higher taxes strangles their economies. The austerity programmes prescribed by the EU, ECB and Internatio­nal Monetary Fund as a condition of the bailouts reinforce this pernicious slide into economic oblivion.

The peripheral countries are trapped in a vicious cycle. A weak economy raises budget deficits which, in turn, drive government debt higher. This requires even more cuts in government spending and higher taxes, leading to further contractio­n in the economy. This drives a deteriorat­ing credit-rat­ing outlook, reduced access to commercial financing and higher funding costs, which contribute to further declines. As some of these countries are heavily dependent on external financing, a crisis becomes almost inevitable­.

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Leon Panetta: United States Within Reach Of Defeating Al-Qaeda, Pentagon Chief Says

FYI:

Prison Ships, Ghost Prisoners and Obama's Interrogat­ion Program
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Leon Panetta: United States Within Reach Of Defeating Al-Qaeda, Pentagon Chief Says

And they said it couldn't be done.

But that still doesn't mean we're leaving Afghanista­n.  Or Iraq.  Or Yemen.  Or Somalia.  Or Libya.  
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