Bill Maher, who has declared frequently that his two issues are the environment and marijuana legalization, pumps money into the campaign of the most conflicted double-talking politician on those two particular issues we've ever seen.
About Barack Obama
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That's all very well and good, but this country has been governed and legislated from the right under the guise of 'compromise' for the past several decades.
And it's not compromise when it's going in the wrong direction. Not when the finances are coming from my pocket and going into yours. That's the direction it's been going for years, decades, and that pocket has been tapped out. It's empty. Your pockets, on the other hand, are DEEP and STUFFED.
And on all of this talk of compromise -- What's the compromise position on ending Bush's Obama's tax cuts? Do Obama's 'most ardent supporters' know that Obama offered in these negotiations to make those tax cuts permanent?
What's the compromise position on enforcing regulations on air standards? Not enforcing them?
What's the compromise position on a woman's right to choose? Make it impossible for her to actually obtain an abortion?
What's the compromise position on Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid and veterans' care and SCHIP, etc.? Empty out the trust funds to pay bond holders and war profiteers so that there's nothing left for those who paid into into the trust funds?
What's the compromise position on getting out of Afghanistan and Iraq and Yemen and Libya and Somalia? Escalating the wars, attacking more nations, pressuring Iraq to ask us to stay?
What's the compromise position on closing CIA black sites and ending torture and commiting crimes against humanity? Prison Ships, Ghost Prisoners and Obama's Interrogation Program? Ending habeas corpus and a president indefinitely detaining anyone he believes might be thinking about committing a crime, American citizens included, and killing them with no due process, no oversight?
There is no 'center' on most issues. We're 'centered-out'. The left has done more than 30 years of compromising. You either believe in Social Security and Medicare and a woman's right to choose and gays' right to marry and clean safe food and water, and a safe workplace, and living wages, etc., or you don't.
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Do Republicans in Congress not passing his proposals then mean that his proposals aren't "Republican-like"?
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Even Stewart gets it: Obama's the best Republican president that the GOP could have wished for, but conservatives are just too stupid or stubborn to realize it.
Now when will Obama's 'most ardent supporters' get it?
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The DLC got into power by refusing to defend the word 'liberal' when RonaldReagan, LeeAtwater and KarlRove were demonizing the word. Instead of educating the public about liberalism, and how liberals were responsible for creating the largest middle class in the history of the world, a strong regulatory system that provided clean water systems, nutritious affordable food for everyone, a public education system that led the world, etc., the DLC convinced Americans that liberals could never win another election. The DLC attributed to ideology what is more accurately explained by lousy campaigns outgunned by election dirty tricks and fraud.
When informed of the issues, most Americans agree with liberal policies. Neither they (nor I) would characterize themselves as far-anything or extreme, but mainstream. For example, nobody likes the idea of abortion, but most Americans don't want the government involved if they find themselves in the predicament of an unwanted pregnancy. And if you frame it as, "You like to kiII babies?!?! ?!?!", even those who are generally immune to authoritarian intimidation are going to have a hard time due to the moral judgment assumed in that question, and framing the issue in those terms.
If the Bush years taught us anything, it's that anyone can sell anything to Americans, if you're stolid and relentless in your salespitch and tactics. It's not that Bush-Rove were geniuses and knew something that nobody else knew; Bush-Rove were just more ruthless doing what politicians had gone to great lengths to hide from Americans: If you keep at it, escalate your attacks, don't take 'no' for an answer, never back away, you'll wear the opposition down.
But Obama only does that to progressives.
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What are you winning when you put DINOs into power?
When you put DINOs into office, you get Republican-like legislation.
Right after 9/11, when the PatriotAct and the DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity and all kinds of other legislation was enacted seemingly to protect us by violating our Constitutional rights and privacy, I wrote about how it was easy to keep Americans safe if you put us in isolation and monitored all of our activities and communications.
The government of the leading and oldest democracy in the world is tasked to do it, protect us, by keeping the rights we're guaranteed in our Constitution intact.
Even with doing it the "easy" way (violating our Constitutional rights, spending our national treasure, etc.), we're still not safe and live in a chronic state of imminent attack. So the "easy way" isn't working.
The same is true for putting DINOs into power.
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; Get your hands off my Medicare", the answer is EDUCATION -- But Obama doesn't do that. Obama gives ground, concedes issues, lets Republicans define the issues and set the parameters.
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