If you read the Rolling Stones article, the troops believe it's McChrystal who's making them hold their fire to prevent civilian casualties.
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Whatever happened to Candidate Obama promise to remove the incentives from offshoring Americans' jobs?: Once in the White House, President Obama shelved the proposal.
The Whirlpool plant in Evansville, Ind., is closing this week after more than 50 years:
==EVANSVILLE, Ind. — Having seen her father make a solid living at the Whirlpool refrigerator factory, Natalie Ford was enthusiastic about landing a job there & was happy years later when her 20-year-old son also went to work there.
But that family tradition will soon end because Whirlpool plans to close the plant on Friday & move the operation to Mexico, eliminating 1,100 jobs here. Many in this city in southern Indiana are seething and sad — sad about losing what was long the city’s economic centerpiece & a ticket to the middle class for one generation after another.
“This is all about corporate greed,” said Ms. Ford, who took a job at Whirlpool 19 years ago. “It’s devastating to our family & to everyone in the plant. I wonder where we’ll be two years or four years from now. There aren’t any jobs here. How is this community going to survive?”
At a time when the nation’s economy is struggling to gain momentum, Whirlpool’s decision is an unwelcome step backward. It continues a trend in which the nation has lost nearly six million factory jobs over the past dozen years, representing one in three manufacturing jobs..==
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What is it that you like about this bill?
About Financial Crisis
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Over the course of US history, corporations have managed to game our political system, and done it so effectively that the two-party system competes to serve corporate interests while defending that service as, "What's good for GM (corporations) is good for America (We the People)".
DLC Democrats who control the Democratic Party and Republicans are corporate t00Is. Like siblings competing for the attention and approval (campaign contributions) of a parent, Republicans and DLC-controlled Democrats try to outdo each other in delivering for their real constituent, Big Corporations. The trick for them has been to make it seem as if they were really working on behalf of We the People.
Democratic voters have mistakenly believed that Obama&Democrats were for strong regulations on banks, Wall Street, investigations, prosecutions, restitution of what has been robbed from the middle class and poor for the past 30+ years, environmental clean-up, clean, sustainable renewable energy (& that isn't nuclear), putting an end to the wars and occupation of Iraq & Afghanistan, affordable, quality universal healthcare (which ObamaCare is not), and more. The DLC-controlled Democratic party gives lip service to these & all populist issues, because like the Republican Party, the DLC works for the benefit of transnational corporations.
Unless & until there is drastic and uncompromising change to our campaign financing system, until corporations are no longer 'persons' and are prohibited from participating in elections and politics, all efforts to reform government are useless.
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Why are Democrats watering down anything? How many times do they need to hear that Republicans won't join them, no matter what?
Democrats control the Senate by a greater margin than either party has had in decades. Still Obama doesn't (& didn't) pressure the Blue Dogs, or threaten Lieberman with loss of his committee chairmanship.
But if you think that isn't enough, that it doesn't matter because Republicans can still filibuster anything and everything, there's Rule 22 of the Senate, which leaves it up to the discretion of the Senate Majority Leader (Harry Reid) whether to actually force them to do it or just let them threaten (bluff).
What we're talking about Republicans filibustering, they really haven't been: They've been THREATENING to filibuster.
And Harry Reid just lets them threaten, bluff. Reid's called them on it exactly once in the last 3 1/2 years, when it was something that Democrats really wanted and needed at that time (Republican Jim Bunning threatened to filibuster a bill to temporarily extend unemployment benefits, & Republicans caved). Filibustering is hard work, & not easy on soft, pampered bodies.
Obama & Democrats are constrained by nothing. If they wanted to pass this bill, they would and could.
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ALL of Obama's plans are somehow restricted by this nebulous thing known, by some, as POLITICS.
If Obama tried to stop offshore drilling, he would be blocked. So, he could waste his time showing that he agrees with people like you, or he could waste his time trying to negotiate something that will actually pass.
The difference is that compromising might result in SOMEthing being done, however trivial, while standing on an extreme principal will accomplish nothing better than losing any overtures of support from the GOP now and for the extended future.
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We would all get a lot done if we caved to conservatives' demands, ended all government services, handed the Pentagon a blank check to wage whatever wars it wanted, both foreign and domestic.
Obama has a nasty habit of conceding that which isn't his to concede. Obama cuts secret deals, out of oversight of the American people, literally and figuratively (Congress).
I've yet to find one issue on which Obama shares the values or beliefs of Democratic voters' interest groups; not environmentally, not on foreign or domestic policy, nothing. Obama would live quite contentedly in a Republican-ruled world. He's a DINO.
So for Obama to be negotiating on behalf of different left-leaning interest groups is something of a stacked deck. It would be like you playing against yourself in chess. That's not how fair negotiations take place, or how lasting contracts that everyone can abide by happen.
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