HuffPost: Obama Wants Bipartisan Reform Cover for Blue Dogs and Conservatives
Ah, the audacity of playing it safe! Obama clearly doesn't understand how positively this will affect people's lives, or he wouldn't be so lukewarm. The public option is polling well everywhere - including those conservative districts.
In fact, just about the only group not strongly supportive are the big contributors:
President Barack Obama is actively discouraging Senate Democrats in their effort to include a public insurance option with a state opt-out clause as part of health care reform. In its place, say multiple Democratic sources, Obama has indicated a preference for an alternative policy, favored by the insurance industry, which would see a public plan "triggered" into effect in the future by a failure of the industry to meet certain benchmarks.
The administration retreat runs counter to the letter and the spirit of Obama's presidential campaign. The man who ran on the "Audacity of Hope" has now taken a more conservative stand than Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), leaving progressives with a mix of confusion and outrage. Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill have battled conservatives in their own party in an effort to get the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster. Now tantalizingly close, they are calling for Obama to step up.
"The leadership understands that pushing for a public option is a somewhat risky strategy, but we may be within striking distance. A signal from the president could be enough to put us over the top," said one Senate Democratic leadership aide. Such pleading is exceedingly rare on Capitol Hill and comes only after Senate leaders exhausted every effort to encourage Obama to engage.
"Everybody knows we're close enough that these guys could be rolled. They just don't want to do it because it makes the politics harder," said a senior Democratic source, saying that Obama is worried about the political fate of Blue Dogs and conservative Senate Democrats if the bill isn't seen as bipartisan. "These last couple folks, they could get them if Obama leaned on them."
But with fundamental reform of the health care system in plain sight for the first time in half a century, the president appears to be siding with those who see the Senate and its entrenched culture as too resistant to change. Administration officials say that Obama's preference for the trigger, which is backed by Maine Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe, is founded in a fear that Reid's public option couldn't get the 60 votes needed to overcome a GOP filibuster. More specifically, aides fear that a handful of conservative Democrats will not support a bill unless it has at least one Republican member's support.
Getting the public option in the Senate bill makes it that much more likely that we'll be able to get it through conference, and not through the reconciliation process.
I don't want any Cons getting credit for healthcare reform. Thye have opposed it for decades. Why should they get to have their ugly names on it when we finally bring it to the American people?
the story in Huffpo is UNSOURCED, but we're supposed to believe that Obama is behind it. It stinks of (R)ahm and his bluedogs. Another motherfucking trial baloon for which Obama will get the blame because we're all supposed to believe it's attributable directly to Obama. Then, aftyer another public outcry, there will be another Obama speech or statement.
What's more scary is that this becomes more believable as Obama thinks Olympia Snows vote is more important than 51 Democrats.
Some stuff you can't make up!
position that Obama has taken that would anger the status quo on economic issues. Name a single one. There are many problems in this country. The biggest of which is the lack of direct participation in the functions of government by the general public. Electing people to office in the absence of direct participation does not work in a capitalist economy. The economic interests are a virtual senate and they control our government, they can in essence veto anything we want to put into place. Direct control would solve a lot of that, like the ability to reverse government policy if enough people support it, the ability to recall any official at any time (progressive countries in places like Latin America already have this). Obama ran a middle of the road campaign and the voters supported that, not someone with better and bolder ideas (like Kucinich). Anyone surprised or disappointed hopefully is learning some lessons that won’t be repeated in the future, and that includes not voting for the party that is even worse than Obama’s.
Beside that anyway, how many people posting here are directly involved? How many people here are directly involved in issues, how many press those in power directly (writing e mails and making phone calls is nice, it is better than nothing, but doesn't do much), how many here think there is a chance that needed change will happen outside the ballot box? Even if Obama were more progressive, he is facing down very powerful interests who control and own the media, Wall Street, most of the financial wealth and increasingly the means to deliver services that our government used to. The only way he could really get much accomplished is if people are involved and are actively pushing him. Isn’t that what the Obama supporters said they’d do? Vote for him then hold his feet to the fire? Is see the same nonsense I saw with Clinton. Privatize the commons, put in place policies that lead to wealth concentration and hollow out government. We got NAFTA, the Telecommunications Act, amongst other things. I don't see too many people involved. There's about a 10 to 1 ratio of people bitching vs. getting directly involved. Say what you want about the crazy ass right wing, they at least got off their asses and made their ignorant voices heard. If the "liberals" don't join the left in trying to CONSTRUCTIVELY criticize Obama they should be honest with themselves and accept partial responsibility for his failures.
Rahmie is what's wrong with O-bought-ma. Rahmie is the one who has to have his 'bipartisonshit' and we don't want any part of it.
This Presidency Is a .......(fill in the blank) lying republican he lied when campaigning for the presidency..
I see no difference between Bush/Cheney's 8 years or 2 terms in office and the nine month 3rd tern of the Bush/Cheney BS with the deceitful Obama/Emanuel.
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...we coulda got this bullshit bill from someone like Mcsame. Obama needs to grow a fuckin spine, or go ahead and become a co-first lady with his wife. Or let BO run the White House. Shameful news.........
dandy
He's trying to make the industry fail itself, but that isn't going to work. You don't starve a leech by not eating, yourself. You break out the f*ing fire.
Thanks for reminding us that women are weak and men are strong! I had almost forgotten.
if he forces that shitty "trigger" through, I'm done with him. He won't get a dime or my time. And I'll actively work against anyone he supports.
he's a one-termer anyway. I'd love to see someone challenge him for the nomination in '12. Maybe a Grayson perhaps.
dandy
Well let's just have the election for president during the midterms then and forget about the next 3 years of President Obama's presidency. I mean the verdict is already in that he is a one-termer according to you. He doesn't have magical powers where he can just solve everything at the blink of an eye. Are several of the positions he is taking pissing me off? Hell yes they are. However, he can at least be afforded 4 years before making such a final judgement on his job performance and whether or not he should be re-elected.
when he keeps throwing his base under the bus?
If he keeps throwing his constituents under th bus, then he probably will not get re-elected. I am just saying it is premature to call him a one termer at this point. So many things can happen over the course of 4 years.
we've got nowhere else to go, except between a rock and a hardplace. They suckered us again.
Only far-left candidates will get my money, time and support if Obama fucks this up!! And if he so much as puts his arm around a candidate, I will support that person's opponent.
another Obama apologist still using the " not in office long enough " excuse. I thought you all died and went to heaven. Obama walks and talks like a duck but some people still think he is the second coming, pathetic.
We voted the real democratic candidates down the toilet in the primary election for this republican ......... (fill in the blanks)
Even John Edwards was more sincere..
The democrats believe they have the left , progressive or his real base in lock up in chains... They believe WE would never vote "other than" one of their democrat imposters...
Well before I vote for most of the so-called arrogant corporate paid democrats I would vote for a republican just to get their slimming a... out of office..
The policies they create and vote on are the same as the republicans and the only difference is the BS they feed us..
Think about a real health bill By Canada which other nations have for their citizen ......when you look at this web site..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_C...
In general, costs are paid through funding from income taxes though three provinces also impose a fixed monthly premium *****$54/month***** in British Columbia which may be waived or reduced for those on low incomes. There are no deductibles on basic health care and co-pays are extremely low or non-existent (supplemental insurance such as Fair Pharmacare may have deductibles, depending on income).
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...............paid for by the slaves of the USofBLOODYISRAEL!!! How's that for a sickening irony??
Obama/Emanuel 3rd term of the Bush/Cheney administration will have completely finish the transfer of America's wealth and power to these Global Corporations and even foreign countries... It is one thing to not be able to complete his campaign promises , but another one to turn around in the opposite direction...
I am now feeling the same way toward Obama/Emanuel's lies and deceit as I did with Bush/Cheney.. When they come on the news media I would change the channel.
Face it as a democrat Obama sucks.
Joe Wilson nailed Obama...
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promi...
http://speeches.demconwatchblog.com/2008/09/o...
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backdoor deals were already made with the Clintons before election day. Obama will hand off to Hillary and Bubba as VP. I'd like to see Grayson burst the bubble on that deal or Fiengold and or Senator Whitehouse. Obama wants to be one of those permanent worldly statesman who travels, wines and dines. Like a parasite similar to another fuckup Tony Blair. Obama is a lightweight and needs a guy like Emanuel around to play the organ grinder. Maybe you young people don't remember the organ grinder and the monkey act that would play for nickels and dimes on the sidewalks.
Check out the Obama cheerleaders on Daily Kos. As long as Obama doesn't change his name to McCain, they continue to excuse his corporate appeasements. Progressive rhetoric doesn't work on everyone though, some watch actions.
if obama continues to push for a public
health option with a trigger, then he is
also pushing for the immediate trigger vote
to remove All the democrats now in office.
we will not be fucked over by washington dc
corporate whores any longer.
Obama/Dems too scared of having their names on the bill.
What's pathetic is they're willing to compromise the healthcare of the people of this country for a laughably obvious token ONE repub vote.
Disgusting.
no, no, sorry but no. Medicare for everyone. If you don't get it, leave town. Plenty of people to replace you.
Trial balloons…
Lead balloons…
The public option with or without a trigger is flim flam.
What is really important is: the very least we should accept is HR 676, single payer.
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is the only way to insure that most if not all Americans get healthcare coverage. President Obama's reticence in supporting that is unconscionable! He is putting too much importance on bipartisonship and Sen Snowe. She is "snowing" him into thinking that her vote is more important than any other senator's. No matter what the president gives her, she will NOT vote for any kind of healthcare reform. She is a RETHUG and wants to see him fail! She is wasting our valuable time. More people are dying EVERY SINGLE DAY because of her stand. She doesnt give a damn about anyone but herself. SHE has single payer healthcare yet she wont even go along with the public option, which to most people is inferior to single payer!
SENATOR SNOWE, I AM CALLING ON YOU TO REFUSE YOUR SINGLE PAYER HEALTHCARE COVERAGE SINCE YOU OBVIOUSLY FEEL THAT ITS NOT GOOD FOR THE COUNTRY.
Im with Freddy Knuckles however inegelantly he expresses his opinion.
Pres. Obama has asked his contituents time and time again to have hope and say "Yes we can!" His constituents elected him as president. His contituents maintained a majority in the House. His constituents gave him a majority with 60 Democrats in the Senate.
The majority of the people in this country want a public option and many feel the insurance companies have had plenty of opportunity to provide a beneficial service. They have failed over and over again and will continue for the simple fact that insurance providers are FOR PROFIT.
President Obama needs to return that same hope and faith in the people that he has so generously accepted from those that voted for him. If it is really true that President Barack Obama is actively discouraging Senate Democrats in their effort to include a public insurance option with a state opt-out clause as part of health care reform, then who exactly is President Obama working for? For someone who pretty much had a stand off approach at the beginning of the health care debate in this session of Congress, President Obama needs to atone
Where the hell is that "Hope and Change" guy? You know, the one that said he was a proponent of single payer? What happened Obama? Corporate whore now I guess? God is this man dissapointing. I never did support him and it has become abundently clear why. Same shit, different President.
"Hope and Change" comes in the form of president obama even attempting reforming health care insurance. The health care insurance industry was ready for this battle before obama was in office. There are many other decision makers besides obama. in my opinion, people can be idealistic about avoiding/deflecting the power of corporations/special interests but the reality is much different. Part of the "change" strategy is reducing the division/fragmentation in this country hence the intentions/attempt for bipartianship regarding health care insurance reform. damn if he tries damn if he doesn't.
That's bullshit! He wasn't elected to ATTEMPT health care reform, he was elected TO REFORM HEALTHCARE. The American people gave him the Presidency, and Democratic majorities in the House and Senate. There is absolutely ZERO, NADA, NONE, ZILCH, reason why this shouldn't have been a done deal already. The sad part of all this is that it's the DEMOCRATS who are burying national healthcare coverage for all Americans.
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
OK your absolutely correct i'm mistaken. I had it wrong I thought there were other decision makers regarding this issue.
Did you even read the post above? This is a very clear instance: many people in Congress feel that they could get shit done if OBAMA HIMSELF were to take a certain step - that is, pressure Blue Dogs to do the right thing. But he's not doing it. There's no other way to slice it - Obama is not making the right move, and there's no good justification for it.
you didn't use the worn out phrase " he has not been in office long enough".
TRIGGER THIS!
(visualize extended middle finger)
Doesn't he realize that IF A FILIBUSTER BEGINS...Democrats can use this in EVERY CAMPAIGN AD AGAINST ANY REPUBLICAN ANYWHERE...NOT TO MENTION ALL THOSE BLUE DOGS????
To hell with Olympia Snowe! LET HER VOTE AGAINST IT AND LET THESE IDIOTS FILIBUSTER TIL HELL FREEZES!
Here's an example of the kind of campaign ad WE SHOULD BE SEEING:
CHECK OUT HEATHER'S POST FROM EARLIER TODAY!
NOW IS NOT THE TIME FOR COMPROMISE AND PLAYING NICE-NICE!
If he demonstrates wrong thinking by continuing to put up with the Bluedogs and Republiklans, he will learn personally what modern slavery is all about. He will never get any support from his own party and constituents, and will be gone, gone, gone, in 2012.
It is hard to believe he is so ignorant about this, but it sure looks like he's not getting it.
Madre de Dios! Those sure are a lot of negative opinions about a bunch of unattributed paragraphs! Isn't that Bo'Hannity's et.al. schtick? The "some people say". I'll bet right now on H-Po somebody is being quoted as saying that Obama won't support health reform unless it comes with a public option. And then later today, so will C & L.
I no longer believe anything left or right unless it's specifically attributed/credited. I'm weary (and leary) of this blog a yo-yo.
I wish the rest of us would do the same before pledging allegiance to get a Republican back in office. Do you really believe you are worse off today than over the last 8 years? Will you stand by your ideology rather than save some lives by using pragmatism, faith and action?
I hear what you are saying, but these are not normal times. If FDR would have taken a slow "bi-partisan" road during the Great Republican Depression #1, he would have never won four terms.
Quite fankly, Obama is a lying sack-of-shit! Anybody who looked at the election results, and was elected themself by the countries desire to see an end of republican economic terrorism; who would then fire Howard Dean and bring in Rahm republican-lite Clinton-flunky asshole Emmanuel, is a stupid clueless jackass!
And his economic team? What a fascist joke! The DLC MUST be crushed out of existence! Obama is DLC republican-lite all the way. Unfortunately, he's so freaking stupid, he's probably listening to Rahm's stories about how Clinton triangulated to re-election in 1996.
Well, methinks he is gonna be in for a big surprise. First of all, he's black, and no matter what he does, those bigots and racist morons down south and out west are never ever gonna vote for him like they did Clinton.
Secondly, he is destroying a once in a lifetime opportunity to do what FDR did, and solidify the republicans to a 29% minority status for generations. For this, I am really getting sick of this guys DLC bullshit. If a real democrat runs against this guy in 2012, I hope he gets his ass kicked.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
us "bigots and racist morons...out west" voted for Obama.
Right back at ya moron!
Wyoming, Idaho, Arizona, Montana, and the midwestern dupes in the Dakota's, Missouri, Nebraska..........
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
ain't West of me.
If this HP story is true then Obama and the rest of his milquetoat team of appeasers are a total disgrace.
I can't believe that they really believe Snowe's vote is that important. It doesn't make sense. I'm starting to believe they are trying to have it both ways, passing an impotent health care reform plan that can be called one without really challenging the interests of the insurance industry.
They have a habit of doing this, instituting in-name-only reform (just look at their toothless, phony financial reform)in place of the real thing and then claiming they've done something credible.
Thousands worked and voted to get this man elected based on his promises to deliver a strong public option, amongst other things. So far his actions have proven him to be either a con-man and a fraud or a man too weak willed for the job he has been elected to.
isn't that important. Claiming they want her vote is only an excuse. Snowe is the designated cover figure, the appointed red herring, who they are using to cover their own willing complicity. Bipartisanship has never been about anything else except excuse making, about providing excuses that they foolishly believe will cover their own tracks and their own corruption.
If any of these corporatist prostitutes gave a tinker's damn about the welfare and well-being of Americans, they would have been relentlessly and tirelessly supporting HR-676.
Obama and the Blue Dogs. The Coalition of the Shilling.
Obama needs to grow a set of "Tommy Douglas" balls. Douglas was the leader of the New Democratic Party of Canadian politics, and before that the premier of the province of Saskatchewan. While in the earlier post, one of his many great accomplishments was creation of a functioning plan to provide free hospital care to all citizens of the province. Over the ensuing years, the concept, receiving favourable raves from the populace, grew to a highly-regarded country-wide healthcare system. Douglas was, in essence, the father of Canadian "single-payer, government-run" healthcare.
Obama should show some of the courage, and live up to the principles, he promised during his well-crafted sales pitch to win the presidency of the US. Anything less reeks of a "bait-and-switch".
In total agreement.
had doctors and nurses as well as large and active social movements behind him, pushing him. History is not the stories and biographies of great men. Social forces create the space for people to have an impact. MLK was a radical who came along when social movements were large, active and growing. He would have been Medgar Evers, or W.E.B DuBois if he came onto the scene earlier. He came on at the right time with large social movements behind him. Obama does not have that. If he makes a mark on history, beyond who he is, it will because of YOU, even if you don't get any of the credit, organizing and making your presence felt. We believe too much in heroes and not enough in ourselves.
Anyone ever read Howard Zinn?
That social momentum is already here, the time is already ripe. He just doesn't want to acknowledge the fact or act on it. There is no doubt in my mind that, because all other factors are right, HR-676 would be a shoo-in, were he only to use the bully puplit of his office to help it along. Instead, he's chosen sides according to the dictates of his corporate allegiances. He has responded to the tone of the times with with mealy mouthed platitudes, empty promises, half-measures, weakness and an endless litany of shabby excuses. He has attempted to make it appear as if he cares about the people, while seeing only to the interests that are preying upon the people. He will not acknowledge that we and the corporations who have created this predatorily parasitical system have mutally exclusive interests. He has chosen the wrong side of right and the wrong side of history, and unless he has some kind of miraculous awakening, I don't see him changing. He is using the power of his office to obstruct the will and good of the People, and that's no small impediment.
He's going to have to go in 2012. The only comfort I can take, is that there is nothing that these guys do that cannot later be set to right once the corrupt and the obstructionists have been ejected from office.
about this whole deal is, has the CBO even scored HR 676 yet? If not, it's all BS anyway
"Obama has indicated a preference for an alternative policy, favored by the insurance industry, which would see a public plan "triggered" into effect in the future by a failure of the industry to meet certain benchmarks."
Oh swell, here we go with "triggers" and "benchmarks", but we'll all be required to buy insurance NOW, right Obama?? Fuck this! He tries to palm this sorry piece of shit legislation off on us as "reform", he's gonna be a one termer. I don't give a shit how many Nobel Prizes he gets, if he sells us out on this, he's finished. While we're at it, let's get rid of Reid, the Blue Dogs, Olympia Snowe, Baucus, and every other gop-lite lowlife.
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
....is my voting plan for the next several election cycles.
if he proves himself to be a sell-out on healthcare, just imagine what we can expect from him with DADT, jobs, climate reform legislation, and a host of problems we face in this country. Triangulation ain't gonna solve this bigtime issues.
dandy
Oh, he's already a sellout on Climate change. He's a big proponent of "clean coal" (what a crock of bullshit that is) and nuclear power. If he were serious about climate change and expanding the use of sustainable, alternative energy sources such as solar, those industries would have gotten the lions share of the money that went to Goldman Sachs, Bank of America,AIG, and the rest of those corporate thieves.
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
Let's not forget that one of the reasons for the bailouts was to get the lines of credit going so small businesses can expand. Oh what was that, the president was just whining about that the other day about how we need to get those lines of credit open again, well then why didn't they do anything with the f'ing bailouts to begin with like they claimed they were going to.
..it's outright prostitution.
Why does he look like someone hocked a loogy into a mashed prunes?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
this bullshit about America being an ocean liner, rather than a speedboat, is smoke and mirrors. Obamas' got the MAJORITY, dammit, get the legislation passed that you promised us.......period!
dandy
It's an ocean liner alright - the HMS TITANIC. Life boats for the rich people, and lock the poor and working class peons down in steerage.
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
to give the rich "their" money back.
Oh can't forget that, can we? And how about some nice, big, fat tax cuts as well.
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
Am I the only one who feels kind of weird slamming the Democrats for selling out on National Healthcare when C&L is running banner ads for the bogus "Americans for Prosperity"?
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
is for right wing causes. I realize John probably can't do anything about it, but...he may want to try what Jesus' General did: run a large banner that says he can't control it, but any money recieved from such advertising will be spent on tatoos, prostitutes, drugs and satan worship.
do THAT! We'll just have to let the Bush tax cuts for the rich expire in 2011...........maybe.
dandy
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I think a simple message of progressive displeasure is for a few million of us to unsubscribe from Obama's email/fundraising list.
I already have and when you unsubscribe they pop up a field to ask why.
I would if I were a subscriber. This is a good way to get their attention because they DO watch things like this closely since this method of fundraising was so vital to him winning.
However, I am currently having too much fun responding to their emails with scsathing epistles that enumerate their failures and which detail the poor choices they are making. when I get the first return email saying that my replies are undeliverable(indicating that they are not monitoring reply emails) I will unsubscribe. I will reserve my opus magnum for their inquiery as to why I am unsubscribing.
Rahm is calling the shots! There is the problem people, Rahm is calling the shots and he doesn't want a public option therefore he will do everything in his power to try and block one.
Obama better wise up and quick or he is going to lose a lot of us who voted for him!
We wanted single payer, and will NOT ACCEPT ANYTHING LESS THAN A ROBUST PUBLIC OPTION!
Write the White House!
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact
Obama might wise up to Emanuel about the third year and then turf his ass, but for us it will be too late.
it just occured to me that I am willing to see Obama voted out of office in 2012 if it means that Rahm Emanuel goes bye-bye with him.
You sorta have to climb into a bubble of naiveness before understanding Obama, but a trigger doesn't have to be a fake Olympia Snowe trigger. Betting on the insurance companies to suck in the future is not betting.
Of course, a real trigger wouldn't produce bipartisan results, so whatever. Only the defeat of health reform is bipartisan.
Listen to THE PEOPLE! To HELL with the Snowe-Dogs
A ROBUST PUBLIC OPTION!
Help us, Obi Wan Kanobe. You're our only HOPE!
beg the guy after he made so many promises, pathetic.
There has been so much back and forth that I am getting worn out , lets just wait and see . Obama is no dummy and he is for real as for wanting to give "we the people" a better shake in this country . I don't believe all the un-named sources crap , every other day it's a different scenario and another rumor . The Huffington post is becoming more and more like the globe or examiner at the check out stand , now they're quoting Rasmussen polls as if they are a credible and unbiased polling organization .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
I'm sorry but with the crap the Huffington Post has been spewing lately, I am having a hard time believing anything it says.
Besides there have been so many aides and sources commenting that I don't know what to believe anymore.
But, if it's Harry Reid who is becoming ballsy in this area, something is inherently wrong.
why does Obama lick the sacs of people who work agianst him and ignore the folks on his isde. No leadership, no sense and no balls
If you read the HuffPost article, you will see that there is absolutely NO evidence to back up these accusation. There are no names given, no sites to check. The only quote comes from the White House, which says this is nonsense.
This is not journalism, it is rumor. There's no reason to believe it.
yesterday, create a billion jobs tomorrow, fix wall street, end swine flu , find OBL, bring every soldier home from Iraq and Afghanistan and reverse DADT immediately. And how much support do you think he'd get from the blue dogs and GOP? I guess he's supposed to do all of that on his own with out the help of his own party which has no balls.
Yeah, we would have done a lot better with palin/mcsame and I'd be drafted at 60 years old and be required to spend my own money on basic training and airfare to the mideast.
Bush loses election, yet:
50+ Cheney in the Senate,
222-213 House majority,
manages to push through the most radical fascist agenda since the days of Hitler!
Obama wins landslide, yet:
60+ Biden and he can't get anything through the Senate,
257-173 House majority, and 40 bluedogs fuck everything up,
Sorry, this guy is a complete failure! It sucks to say this, but I knew two days after the election, when his first major announcement was to fire Howard Dean and put Rahm Clinton-flunky republican-lite Emmanuelin control of his team - that this guy was gonna be a DLC loser. He hasn't dissappointed me since.
The last thing the American people wanted was more DLC repuke-lite bullshit. This is NOT 1996, and he will find out just how bad he is fucking-up by siding with the DLCer's. They might have lots of corporate cash, but they sure won't be able to get his ass re-elected.
If he continues to be corporate-lite, somebody like Ralph Nader might actually become a viable candidate against Rahmabama and the batshit insane republican fascists.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
Emanuel is Obama's Karl Rove. He is also a Zionist water boy. Barrack Obama appointed eleven members of the Trilateral Commission to top-level and key positions in his administration within ten his first ten days in office. Just look at who he appointed to handle the Banksters Bailout, all Wall Street Insiders. We have been fucked royally.
his Rasputin. But, it's his fault for listening to Rahm and for finding Rahm credibile.
Obama only wants to be a one term president.
And a one term president he is going to be.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2009/10/25/pub...
Or is this still Obama's chess-playing subtle plan for "Change we can believe in?"
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