David Axelrod Leaving White House In 2011: Will Work On Obama's Re-Election Campaign

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.

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 got the ball rolling to wreck it all to heII.
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Americans Vastly Underestimate Wealth Inequality, Support 'More Equal Distribution Of Wealth': Study

You're a paid political operative; what in heII would you know about honesty?

"The fear, OMIGOD, THE REPUBLICANS ARE COMING!!"


Teabagger Scott Brown gets elected and moves to the middle, and says, "Sarah Palin who?"

Sarah Palin herself governed Alaska as a Republican, which is no different than any DLCer governs.  If you're not afraid of Evan Bayh, 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.

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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Axelrod: If Tax Cuts Aren't Done Before The Election, 'We Will Insist On It After'

I wish with all of my heart and soul I was wrong.  But I'm not.

Sure he can count on fooling the electorate.   One important reason is that corporate media controls the message, and their narrative on the day to day workings of government is already out of Mother Goose.  Then there are the buffers or middlemen  -- 'all the president's men' who will fall on their swords and provide him plausible deniability in order to keep him 'likable' by the public.   

That's the key to getting Obama to deliver on his campaign promises, and move him to the left: Obama's 'most ardent supporters'.  They enable him to screw them and us over.  His 'likability'.  

When Obama starts getting connected to all that they are doing to sabotage the People, his numbers plummet and he will then deliver to the Democratic base (70% of Democratic voters).  

Until that happens, he's actively working to move the Democratic Party even farther to the right, to attract Republican politicians and their supporters to the Democratic Party.  He's trying to make the Democratic Party into a place where Republicans who are in danger of losing their jobs due to Teabaggers can feel comfortable.  At home.
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Axelrod: If Tax Cuts Aren't Done Before The Election, 'We Will Insist On It After'

"recessions are cyclical and vary in severity"
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Abzurd spin; it suggests inevitability

http://www.nber.org/cycles/july2003.pdf

The fact is that presidential administrations do everything that they can to inspire consumer confidence and avoid recessions.  When they go around dropping 'recession' into every conversation, it's because they want it to happen.  It serves a purpose, which in this case was Bush's proposed tax cuts for the rich.  And he had to do it fast, before 9/11, before the money would be needed elsewhere and 9/11 wrecked the argument about "Got to get the money out of Washington, before Congress spends it."
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Axelrod: If Tax Cuts Aren't Done Before The Election, 'We Will Insist On It After'

The crash happened on Bush's watch.  Before the election even occurred.  TARP.  

Did you just wake up?

Get back on the Tea Cup ride & suck up that snow cone, duder.
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Axelrod: If Tax Cuts Aren't Done Before The Election, 'We Will Insist On It After'

The Obama administration is trying to have it all ways.

They want the base of the Democratic Party to show up at the election, but if they continue the Bush tax cuts, if they don't let that legislation exp!re as it's on track to at the end of the year, the base (70% of Democratic voters) are done with Obama and the DLC-controlled Democratic Party.

So they're trying to telegraph (to the rich) that "We're there for you" while keeping the base on tenterhooks.

Between appointing Elizabeth Warren to an advisory position with no power or authority, touting a massive giveaway to Big Insurance & PhRma as "reform" that doesn't get Americans affordable quality medical treatment for all, an escalating mess in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq, and now this, how much more proof do 0bama's 'most ardent supporters' need before getting that this administration thinks Democratic voters are too stup!d for words?
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Axelrod: If Tax Cuts Aren't Done Before The Election, 'We Will Insist On It After'

Congress needs to come up with new legislation having NOTHING to do with the Bush legislation.

Let the Bush legislation d!e.

This cross-contamination, of legislation, of one administration's policies to the next, is abzurd.

It's intended to confuse the American people, and as you can tell from the knee-j#rk j#rks' reactions to the fact that Bush & Cheney created a recession to jam through tax cuts for the rich, it works.
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