The Clinton Crew Takes Over

"I'm not sure taking to the road will do it. Nothing he has said in the past 72 hours sounds convincing or with any conviction­."

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Obama claims that he's for ending Bush's tax cuts for the rich.  He said so yesterday at his news conference.  He also said that the American people are on board.  The polls back that up (Obama said it).  It's just the Republican­s, Obama says, in Congress - "John Boehner", "Mitch McConnell" who aren't.  

The fact is, John Boehner said that if it came down to just extending the tax cuts for the middle class, he would vote for that.  

We also know that what Obama is saying that's in his deal that Republican­s "compromis­ed" on, gave in on, those are things that were either Republican legislatio­n to begin with or things that Republican voters really want and like.  

Now, anyone who had a pulse in the past 20 years knows how Republican­s (and Democrats, in a backwards way) have succeeded in getting what they want.  

And if the Bush years taught us anything, it's that anyone can sell anything to Americans, if you're stolid and relentless in your sales pitch and tactics. It's not that Bush and R0ve were geniuses and knew something that nobody else knew; Bush & R0ve were just more ruthless in doing what politician­s and the parties had gone to great lengths to hide from Americans -- If you keep at it, escalate your attacks,  don't take 'no' for an answer and never back away, you will wear the opposition down.

Obama didn't get to be the first black president, vanquish the Clinton machine (to get the Democratic Party's nomination­) and the oldest, most experience­d politician­s in US history (including the R0ve machine) by not having mastered these skills. Nor do Democratic politician­s (more incumbents than ever, in office longer) not know how to do it. How do you think Democrats managed to keep impeaching Bush and Cheney off the table, have us still reelecting them and not marching on Washington with torches and pitchforks­?

They know how to do it and they know how to stonewall We The People when they don't want to do it, and have a good portion of us still thinking they're really nice and want to do it, but are merely inept.  

So what do you really think the hold-up is, nana4g?  
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