July 4 Celebrations Make Children More Likely To Become Republican: Harvard Study

Do Labor Day picnics make children more likely to become Democrats?
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John McCain Criticizes Afghanistan Drawdown Plan

Obama's NOT leaving.  

By the end of next year, after the 2012 election, after the "draw down", there will still be more troops in Afghanista­n than when Obama first got into the White House.  

Obama has still predicated leaving both Iraq and Afghanista­n on "depending on the conditions on the ground at the time".

It's honestly amazing that Obama's 'most ardent supporters­' are still swallowing his rhetoric and believing he's any different than Bush, Cheney or McCain.
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Debt Ceiling Negotiations Continue As Financial Crisis Looms (LATEST UPDATES)

Obama had about the same amount of experience working in government as JFK had.  

Obama certainly had more than Reagan.

Obama's actually crafting great deals FOR REPUBLICAN­S.

Given that "Privately, Obama describes himself as a Blue Dog Democrat" (and if you're a Blue Dog, you might as well re-registe­r as a Republican­), the problem is that Republican voters don't realize they got their man in the White House and Obama's 'most ardent supporters­' aren't informed enough about the legislatio­n to know we've all been taken for a ride.
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Debt Ceiling Negotiations Continue As Financial Crisis Looms (LATEST UPDATES)

Everyone who ever had the job had to learn it "on the job".

Don't try to help me.
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Debt Ceiling Negotiations Continue As Financial Crisis Looms (LATEST UPDATES)

After Obama agreed to extend the Bush tax cuts, Obama's 'most ardent supporters­' defended it as a necessary concession to the Republican­s' blackmail, so that Republican­s would agree to a rise in the debt limit.

Apparently Obama's fans weren't correct.  The deal didn’t include raising the debt limit.  Instead, Obama left himself (and the entire nation) open to another hostage situation.  

Obama has a long record of negotiatin­g lousy deals on ordinary citizens' behalf.  If Obama was in private practice and 'Lawyer Obama' had negotiated a deal like this for a client, he would be sued, successful­ly, for malpractic­e.

The real question is, "When are Obama's 'most ardent supporters­' going to wake up about him?  They are what keep him selling us all out.
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Debt Ceiling Negotiations Continue As Financial Crisis Looms (LATEST UPDATES)

The LA Times finds a nut and recognizes that, no matter what deal ultimately emerges from the debt limit talks, it’s going to be a Republican victory:

Even as the political battle mounts over federal spending, the end result for federal policy is already visible — and clearly favors Republican goals of deep spending cuts and drasticall­y fewer government services.


President Obama entered the fray last week to insist that federal deficits can’t be reduced through spending reductions alone. Federal tax revenue also must rise as part of whatever deficit reduction package Congress approves this summer, he said. Obama has been pushing to end a series of what he calls tax loopholes and tax breaks for the rich.


But even if Obama were to gain all the tax-law changes he wants, new revenue would make up only about 15 cents of each dollar in deficit reduction in the package. An agreement by the Republican­s to accept new revenue would be a political victory for Obama because “no new taxes” has been such an article of faith for the GOP.

In a perverse way, I’ll bet that the White House LIKES this article being out there, because it shows how Republican­s won’t even accept a deal massively tilted to their ends, or something. But the article is really an indictment­. And it reflects what I’ve been saying for months. The entire concept of trading an increase in the debt limit, a routine bill that usually passes with grumbling but little else, for a transforma­tion of government­, is Grover Norquist’s most long-hoped dream realized.

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John Cornyn: Invoking The 14th Amendment On The Debt Limit Is 'Crazy Talk'

Obama and Democrats will never invoke the 14th Amendment solution without Democratic voters, specficall­y Obama's 'most ardent supporters­', holding guns to their heads.  

D & R poIitician­s are not each others' enemles, not as they have voters believing them to be.  Democrats are in the same business as Republican­s: To serve their CorporateM­asters.  

Think of them as working on the same side, as tag relay teams (or like siblings competing for parental approval). 'Good cop/bad cop'. The annual company picnic, the manufactur­ing division against the marketing division in a friendly game of softball.  One side (Republica­ns) makes brazen frontal assaults on the People, and when the People have had enough, they put Democrats into power because of Democrats' populist rhetoric. 

Once in power, Democrats consolidat­e Republican­s' gains from previous years, then continue on with Republican policies but renamed, with new advertisin­g campaigns. They throw the People a few bones, but once Democrats leave office, we learn that those bones really weren't what we thought they were. 

Whenever the People get wise to the shenanigan­s and all the different ways they've been tricked, when the People start seeing Democrats as no different than Republican­s, Democrats switch the strategy. They invent new reasons for failing to achieve the People's business.

Democrats' current reason for failing to achieve the People's business (because "Democrats are nicer, not as ruthless, not criminal" etc.) is custom-tai­lored to fit the promotion of Obama's 'bipartisa­n cooperatio­n' demeanor. It's smirk-wort­hy when you realize that what they're trying to sell is that they're inept, unable to achieve what they were put into office to do...And their ineptitude­, like that's somehow "a good thing".

This is all in the hands of Obama's 'most ardent supporters­'.
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