What do we call it, again, when one tries the same thing repeatedly, expecting a different result…?

But… but… but how can Republicans object to a commission whose primary goal is to gut anything they can call an “entitlement” and leave impoverished seniors eating cat food? Are they feeling well?

The deal has been cut.
And while you were distracted by the awful Republican winning the Senate race, The supreme court decision to end Democracy once and for all.

Obama and Congress were, under the cloak of darkness, taking away the rest of the “entitlement” programs:
Obama Cuts Deal that Will Reduce Social Security, Medicare and all Entitlements

A Real populist! INDEED!
It’s tough to realize that one cannot believe a single thing our government says
Had enuff, progressives, people of this bright shining city on the Hill?
We’d better get off our cans real quick.

A lot of the little people were into you, and now the little people are wondering why we were so easily forgotten? What about those campaign promises and the idea of change? We liked that, but what we have seen, we are not into that.

A re-set on tone would be good.

Still with this bipartisanship nonsense? You know how Republicans actually achieve bipartisanship on some of their bills (see NCLB, tax cuts and Iraq) they put political pressure on Senators to back their agenda. They made it to where senators at least thought they would lose an election if they didnt vote for something. Playing nice might work when you are community organizing or talking to editors of the law review, but when it comes to DC politics it takes muscle and balls. You want bipartisanship? then get respect because they arent going to bend to some weak-willed nerd.

Is he ever set up to pivot in the State of the Union. The state of our Union is still divided and here’s why–from zero votes to Joe Wilson to Jim DeMint. And document every overture that he made. Then be hypocritical and rip the Congress for being swayed by lobbyists. Then swing at the “stakeholders” with whom he negotiated but didn’t keep their part of the deal. Then lay out a strong agenda for the next 10 months, starting with the next steps on healthcare reform.

That’s his strategic position right now. If he takes it. Naw. Won’t happen. He’ll apologize for the lack of progress.

Not feeling well. Got a bad case of Waterloo-itis (inflammation of the Waterloo).

Clever. NOW Obummer proposes taking on the Banksters, just after losing 60 votes in the Senate and the Supremes have decided that corporation can buy our politicos directly without having to go through the fiction of PACs.

We do I suspect its just words, and a bright shiny object to deflect our attention for other issues for the upcoming election?

All Obummer has to do is apply existing laws (anti-trust against the banksters). Just as Obummer has for all those war crimes….

“I am going to keep on trying though” an excuse to do fuck all…

“…further and further disenchanted with the possibilities of politics and government can solve any problems whatsoever.”

Come off it. He could have forced through health care reform but he chooses to focus on “tone” and “politeness” instead.

I could care less about vitriol. Vitriol can be good. Obama’s priorities are in the wrong place entirely. He wants people to get along – he should have focused on ramming through legislation that HELPS people. It’s called leadership.

He needs to wake up and listen to our vitriol. Damn him.

Yup. Pretty soon they can just eliminate elections. The CEOs of all the major corporations will just have the Presidential candidates in for a job interview and decide which one they want to hire.

Returning to Conservative ideas :

It’s like we all quit smoking last fall, and now we are thinking about starting up again..

Holding fast, priceless.

W Johnson

When you compromise by giving up other people’s stuff the correct term is “sellout”.

What kills me is that Obama has the most powerful office in the country and he’s being so “nice” he’s completely powerless.

DOH!!!

This guy is starting to sound DUMB!

Hey B! How about “scaling back” your likability quest with the racists in the GOP and focus on something simpler. Like, say, busting the balls and heads of your own PARTY and maybe building a little UNITY within your own house.

Cause you know, with the majority and all, THAT strategy might actually work for you.

Or you could simply squander the remainder of your first (and possibly one) term trying to get the playground bullies to like you.

Gore/Dean 2012

“The change we should have had in the first place.”

“Well, you know, it is my responsibility to try to reset the tone.”

Truly pitiful. Who does he think he is, Mr. Manners? An etiquette expert? WAKE UP, Mr. President!

You’re right, it’s down to the SU Address. If instead of populist fire, he natters on about reaching out across the aisle, looking forward, changing Washington together, where everyone gets a coke and a smile, we’ll know he’s permanently out to lunch.

Perhaps Obama should forward that “post-partisan” memo to the GOP…I think he’s the only one who received it!

Anybody that thinks they can “work in a bi-partisan manner” with the rethugs needs meds. Don’t trust people who say this folks, they are delusional and living in LA-LA Land. And Mr. Prsident, if the shoe fits – wear it…

ain’t that the truth.

“Republicans Oppose Latest Obama Proposal to Act as President”

He’s doing a fine enough job “Acting” as the Prez. Doesn’t need no help from anyone but the top 1%.

Fuck him.

Worth noting: A photo of Obama making a statement right now on HuffPo, with Volker clearly visible behind Obama (along with Barney Frank, Geithner, and Romer in bg).

And Simon Johnson seems to be claiming that Volker’s winning this round. Johnson’s claims are supported if you check other recent updates at Financial Times and there’s a good article now up at New Deal 2.0 about a possible 21st Century Glass Steagall (hat tip bobschacht).

Here’s hoping there’s something going on behind the scenes to fundamentally rejigger the disastrous financial system, which several FDL Book Salon authors have done yeoman’s work in exposing.

and let’s not forget the public announcements of repubs both in and out of Congress both after the election and after the Inauguration saying, in a very direct way, that they were going to balk anything Obama or the Democrats brought up. What does Barry NOT understand about the word ‘no’ – No means no – nuthin’ – no cooperation, no bipartisanship, no help, no partnership, no ‘getting along’ no ‘helping you succeed. No honeymoon. Nuthin’ And, because the Rethugs are extremely well trained, it did not take much to hold them together to NOT do anything. Remember – they have paid themselves very handsomely indeed over the past year to Not Do Anything.
Barry’s problem is that he still believes that he needs to ‘get along with everyone’ – forgetting that the other side made the decision before the election that not only were they NOT going to ‘get along’ with him, but that they were going to actively work against him. And they had the help of such illuminaries as Joe Lieberman, who is a resentful little shit.
My parents told me right from the get-go( and I think it was when I came home crying from the first grade when someone called me a bad name because we didn’t celebrate Christmas at our house) that a) everyone is not going to like you, b) that there will be people who dislike you for stupid reasons that you have no control over and c) that if you allow that sort of stuff to stand in the way of doing what you want to do, then that is really YOUR problem. Barry’s lesson seems to have been a) that his job in life was to make everyone like him, b)that this is actually possible if he’s winning enough, and c)that nothing of any value gets accomplished unless everyone gets along and can sing “Kum-bai-ah”.
Guess what, Barry — there’s no such thing as Santa Claus, either.

Obama was never as smart as many of us believed him to be. I cringe every time I read an editorial claiming Obama to be “the most intelligent man we have ever held in this office”.

Why? Why is he so smart? Because he went to Harvard?

I’m pretty sure the ship has sailed on the myth that an Ivy League education automatically signifies some level of superior intelligence.

Don’t forget that change is hard.

Rubinomics 2.0;

Reducing the deficits by cutting the last threads of the public ‘safety net’.

Eat the rich, and the growing ‘post partisan’ public will happily support you, Obama.

And of course I fuck up my credibility by fucking up basic subject verb agreement.

I’d agree at this point, but if he had not given the GOP a chance to cooperate over the last year — if he’d simply come in determined to shove things through (as GWBush did), then he’d look like a thug.

Having given them the chance, having exposed them as intractably obstructionist, he now has more latitude with onlookers like myself who had hoped for more civility.

The GOP can’t survive the revision of corporate regulations.
They’ll fight those to the death, because that’s fundamentally what they represent: corporate interests.

This’ll be epic.

Bipartisanship is just a figleaf for Democrats who want to serve their corporate masters. So is that bullshit filibuster rule in the Senate — an institution whose very undemocratic existence stems from “revolutionaries” who wished to maintain their unpopular plantation oligarchy.

the most intelligent man we have ever held in this office

Look at the list of those who held the office. Name the ones more “intelligent”, whatever that means. Maybe the most intelligent man we have ever held in this office in the 21st century.

apparently he missed that memo

Rubinomics 2.0

Good one!

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

And so, the failure to provide drastic, necessary action of the government and the outsize influence of the corporate body to insulate itself coupled with the deathgrips both parties have around each other’s necks has highlighted that the United States is no longer viable in the long term, and, as a divided house, will collapse.

Miserable, but that’s the future on the horizon.

Now that Scott Brown is King of the World, clearly it’s time for the Republican Party to start compromising on some of their core principles: lower taxes, bigger bombs, subjugation of daughters women, universal health care for the rich…yep, sounds like Barry’s kind of bipartisanship to me.

Can’t wait to see how that works out.

The first few times that Rahmbama made bipartisan efforts early in his Presidency, I cheered him on. I didn’t think it would work, but it seemed like a good idea to at least extend his hand across the aisle. But now I’m beginning to wonder why Rahmbama appears to be terminally stupid. Is this guy a one-trick pony or what?

Hello, Mr. President!!! Knock-knock, yoHOOOOOO!!! Anybody home???? Your “strategy” isn’t working. Time for the CHANGE that y’all promised us.

Sheesh. Frankly, the US public enjoys spectator sports. Being nice & polite & all mannerly is a good thing… to a point. THEN we all need to set BOUNDARIES. This dude seems to enjoy being a door mat or something.

Shudder to mention it, but at least smirking, smarmy, giggling frat-boy W had the chutzpah to say he was the “decider” – as dumb as that was – and to put some muscle behind it (as wrong headed as his decisions were). I certainly don’t want to see someone like W as POTUS, but I sure would like to see ALL Democrats grow a friggin’ spine beginning with BHO.

Hello!!! Mr. President!!!! Anyone home??????

January 21, 2013:

He was probably our nicest President, he cared deeply about overcoming bipartisanship, but he couldn’t lead for beans. He might have made a good leader in a vitriol-free country without any Republicans in office but, even then, it’s likely he would have found a way to concede to GOP demands.

It’s the new kid’s way of saying to the bullies, “Hey, there’s plenty of corporate money for ALL of us! Let me be part of in-crowd! Party distinctions don’t matter anymore!

The politics of the social-climber.

Now is the time for the President to show ‘em his Johnson,er Lyndon Johnson that is.
Call everybody in the middle of the night, ’till they give in. Time to be relentless.

Amen to that! Agree in full. Well said.

A year and half ago, Obama was out talking to people having hard times and looking for work. Today, those same people are looking for work if they are not living under the bridge or dead!

Where are the jobs? Why is Congress still allowing American industries to offshore their entire workforce? Is this not treason? Do you think that any other country would allow this to happen to them?

Blanche Lincoln now has an approval rating of 38% – can we find a challenger?

Good idea, but never gonna happen. That would take a spine and the will not to kowtow to the corporations. Nope, not gonna ever happen.

Waiting for a reply ….

“Never Again Will The American Taxpayer Be Held Hostage By A Bank That Is Too Big To Fail.”

TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE

BEING A WILLING CAPTIVE OF WALL STREET WITH BAILOUTS OF $10 TRILLION PLUS … MEANS NO ONE BELIEVES A WORD YOU SAY.

NO ONE, PERIOD.

Fire Emmanuel.

Fire Geithner

Withdraw Bernanke’s nomination as Fed Chairman.

SURPRISE ME. CANCEL THIS HEAD FAKE HEALTH CARE REFORM BAILOUT OF BIG INSURANCE & PHARMA NOW.

KICK THE LOBBYISTS WHO PAID YOUR WAY INTO OFFICE OUT, BEFORE THEY COMPLETELY DESTROY THIS COUNTRY.

I sense those are rhetorical questions (mostly), but for the record: where is Congress & BHO in the midst of this economic crisis, where people are literally dying or living under bridges (and they are; I serve in food pantries & see the homeless regularly):

Why, Congress & BHO are happy little pigs at the trough, scooping up their corporate payola. Care about the “little people (aka the voters)”??? ha ha ha ha LOL: what a funny joke. Congressfolk & the POTUS caring about their constituents’ welfare?? ROTFLOL…

Trying the same thing over and over again and expressing a different result is, I believe, a symptom of madness. You beat me to the punch.

I thought Obama was a smart guy , but he sure doesn’t catch on too quick does he

You guys couldn’t think outside your pathetic Dem vs. GOP box if your lives depended on it.

Indies see thru this bullshit. The “activists” of both parties are mindless automatons spouting horseshit talking points fed to them by their political herowhores.

Obama = another failure manufactured by your useless 2 party culture.

Indies are 4 out of 10 voters, soon to be the majority. WE DECIDE who wins and loses. One day we’ll have our own party, one that doesn’t whore for $$$.

In the meantime we’ll just go on kicking your 2 crappy parties in the nuts. Especially the one that’s screwing us at the given moment.

So we’re gonna abuse the Dems in 2010 just like we did the GOP in 08.

Stock up on morphine bumpkins. Major pain coming you way.

The incentives to hit for the fences — wealthiest 5% of America — makes him look dumb to the bottom 95%. That’s craftiness, not stupidity.

Anybody have that link for Troll Bingo?

Thank you.

Attention Obama! Real people don’t care about bipartisanship. They want someone who will fight like a madman for THEIR interests. Not the corporate interests, not the Dem’s political interests, and not even your own political interests.

If you refuse to fight and remain on your knees in subservience to some weird idea about bipartisanship that only David Broder can understand, you will be perceived as a weak punk who won’t fight for anything at all. Nobody will support a weakling with no convictions.

The only way to bring the enemy to the negotiating table is to destroy their will to fight. Every military person understands this, but this simple fact seems to elude you. Why is that? Just gutless?

Stop being a punk. Nobody respects a punk and if you are perceived as such, it reflects badly on every other Democrat and you will all sink together.

And please fire Rahm Emanuel. He is leading you straight off the cliff.

I dunno why people stick with a party that has proven time and time again that they only pay lip service to progressive ideals, that they are either too corrupt to fight for those ideals or too cowardly. If you really want the rush of the ‘big win’, I suggest you choose a sports team, and sublimate your need for the ‘big win’ in this way. When your team wins, you’ll feel good for about 15 minutes and go back to your unchanged life…not too different than ’08 right? At some point Jane Hamsher and the people who contribute to this blog are going to have a serious conversation as to whether they want to continue to dedicate it to the election of members of a useless party, or whether they want to use that energy and reach to build a party that might actually live up to its stated ideals. That party is the Green Party. It’s time to have this conversation and you goddamn well know it. One is easier but ultimately pointless. The other is harder but one day might yield actual results.

I remember a story about a little boy who cried wolf. After two abject failures, the citizenry did not believe the little boy when he called for help the third time.

Or as George W Bush famously said: “Fool me once, shame on — [pauses] – shame on you. Fool me — You can’t get fooled again.”

Obama, you have two legs, your supporters. Stand and deliver. (And quit listening to Rahm!)

Hey, are you so completely clueless that you can’t see that most of the posters here are AGAINST what Obama has been doing? We are hardly supporting his current positions. We are urging him to fight for something, anything, that would actually help ordinary people instead of the malicious moneyed interests.

How difficult is that to understand?

He’s doing a fine enough job “Acting” as the Prez.

I don’t know about that, he’s no Ronald Reagan! Especially considering he’s given better scripts than the cheesy lines Reagan had to deliver.

I think they may already have. I have a very snaky suspicion that the Dems threw the race in MA

This article your link sent me to claimed Obama was creating a panel to look at cost savings in entitlement programs . Nowhere did it say Obama was actually cutting Medicare Medicaid or SS or that he proposed such cuts

Stick with the truth or you are no better than the wingnuts and all their silly ideas

Still playing the guitar ?

He’s saying “never gain” because never again will they have to do it. By the time Obama’s first term is up the corporations will own US lock stock and barrel.

Sorry, that sure sounded to me like he was doing it. I hope you’re right.

No, you’re confusing me with Yngwie J Malmsteen….I’m Yngwie K Malmsteen.

This doesn’t sound like it to you?

Deal with “Democrat leaders” represents a capitulation to conservatives in both parties, and would leave Democratic liberals accepting unconditional surrender not only on health care, but on the most basic of all New Deal programs.

Do you need it spelled out?

stop pretending you’re brainless. [Mod Note: stop the namecalling]

That’s to say, – where is R.Rubin’s bitch going to find the cuts to the deficits?

And what is K.Conrad (D,ND) doing running the circus, again?

…the wingnuts and all their silly ideas.

they have ideas?

plural?

I must have missed something somewhere.

Oh so sorry !

In response to StuEvilDrPuma, #1–Stupidity?

Exactly. This clown is arguing semantics when the thrust of the commission is clear as an ice dildo: kill any and all entitlements.

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters that the health-care reform bill is moving to the ‘back-burner’.

“The president believes it is the exact right thing to do,” Gibbs said.

Isn’t that special.

Obama has proposed no such cuts, His order creates a commission to make recommendations Congress would have to act on .

Sad but true.

What did lifting the cap on Fannie – Freddie just before Christmas do to this?

Will it underwrite future problems before they become a crisis? Does it give foreclosing banks 100 cents on the dollar for their underwater mortgages?

This country is headed exactly where Obama wants it to: the far right.

Here’s a petition for whatever good it will do:
http://capwiz.com/aauw/issues/alert/?alertid=14487386

Mistah Kurtz, he dead – and Mistah Obama, he stonedeaf and gone for the duration -

and no, this is not a racist comment, but a literary allusion to a poem that may well be on point -

Once again, this is not a message meant for right wingnutz, its another half assed scold and shame session directed at the left. I really really really dont get this president. at all. i am really terrified of the possibility (probablity) that the political culture in washsington is so isolated, so blind and deaf to “real” america they the whole system is irredeemably screwed, and that no amount of grassroots pressure can dislodge the current goverment for by secret corporate boardroon meeting. Im waiting for them to just move the government, or at least the executive branch, to manhattan.

I wonder if Hillary is saying, “I told you so” about now.

Send a few prayers to Beckham.

Wait a minute. I thought I was entitled to a pony. Is that going to be cut, too?

Geithner and Emmanuel are doing precisely what Obama wants them to do and tells them to do. Period.

The problem is Barack Obama. He desires no real reform and never has, and no real reform is what he’s going to get.

The two-party system is utterly corrupt and largely disfunctional – except when it comes to serving the interests of the corporations and the rich.

It’s not so much Democrats versus Republicans. It’s Democrats and Republicans versus the rest of us.

You’re having trouble here. let me help you: If they agree; Congress that is ( you know the legislative body)
Obama will issue and executive order to cut all entitlements to “balance the budget of the backs of the old the halt and the lame…and the young too.
Go do your own research.
I wasn’t put here to convince you. You can find all sorts of stuff under these cool keywords:
obama executive order cut social security

save the insults
I believe what I see with my own two eyes ,you know things that can be proven .
So far ,what you’re talking about is only speculation ,not fact .

and based on what we’ve seen, conrad, nelson, baucuss, snowe wrote the bill, and joe lieberman usurped was handed harry reids job and took out anything he didnt like, and obama begged the house to pass it. what do you think will happen with this commision.

Let’s see. Let’s balance the budget in the face of the greatest recession since 1929.
WTF are the priorities? Is Obama becoming Grover Norquist? WTF do you think they are going to cut funding? Defense?

Sorry Billybugs, wrong emphasis at the wrong time equals a stupid administrative priority.

I know, this place sucks…I was planning on eating it.

poor puppy :(

Go here:

I gotta say, I’m wandering around completely bewildered these days myself. I don’t get how he doesn’t’ get it.

You can tell it’s an entitlement pony. It tastes like chicken.

Still only speculation

This stuff is on a par with Birther and death panels

what poem is that, I am not so literate as you.

Well, you know, as long as it comes out of the poor, people won’t notice it that much cause everyone knows the poor want to be that way or are just …losers anyways

Gibbs said the president has “a very full plate” with financial reform and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (all of which poll better than health-care) and would leave it up to Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi to “continue to look to the best way forward.”

Kent Conrad is half a pubes hair removed from a wingnut hinself, for Pete’s sake, man! That screams entitlement cuts because the chair loves that idea and Obama knows it.

Had he made Feingold the chair, we’d be looking at possibly cuts in expenditures on the MIC, not the safety net!

[moderated] ‘fait accompli’ shit, use your noodle.

Billybugs — If you look at the structure of this commission, it’s supposed to submit a proposal that Congress can only vote on up or down, not amend in any way. It’s like the military base closure commission, where once the commission made its final proposal, Congress had to accept all the closures or none. The idea behind this “deficit reduction commission” is to give certain members of Congress political cover while positioning passage of the deficit reduction package as the solution to an artificial “shock doctrine” crisis. Trust me, you won’t find in that proposal any recommendations about raising taxes on the top 1%, or cutting our $700+ bil annual spending on defense. (We spend more on defense than all the other countries of the world, combined.)

I think he enjoys the smoke that Rahm, Geithner, etal keep blowing up his ass…

Mystery meat… ya think?

WaPo sez otherwise.

Throw some ketchup on there…you’ll never know.

The idea behind this “deficit reduction commission” is to give certain members of Congress political cover while positioning passage of the deficit reduction package as the solution to an artificial “shock doctrine” crisis.

Bingo.

Kid, you’ve hit the nail on the head.

One way to know if Obama is really going to change anything and go Volcker’s way — which I seriously doubt — is if TurboTax Timmy, Summers, and Bernanke walk the plank. (I wish Rahm would also go, but if Barry does change direction, strangely enough he may need an ass-kicker like Rahm to ramrod changes through. That said, I’d still rather see any one of a number of others in that job.)

Bottom line: unless Timmy and Summers go, you can be that “reform” will be all talk and no real bite.

Poor Mr Obama…he was born with a Republican foot up his ass.

Even if President Obama changed Parties they still wouldn’t like him…the race thing ya’know.

Nope still don’t see anything about Obama actually making those cuts ,and this is the third time I’ve read the Wapo article.
It’s all still just speculation and that’s all I wanted to point out.
Let’s not act like the crazies on the far right , with all these things Obama is gonna do to us.
There is no way a democratic prez or Congress is gonna mess with those programs period

he get’s it, he just wants to persuade us that it’s them and not him

expect to here this over and over and over again…

‘I wonder if Hillary is saying, “I told you so” about now.’

No, she’s saying ‘I couldn’t have done a better job of selling out to Corporate America. Good job Barry!’

hate to disagree with you but if you look at all the players in this such as Pete Peterson, Kent conrad, Judd Gregg, etc, all are folks who have stated quite openly that they believe the way to deal with the budget deficit is to cut Social Security. Obama calling for a Deficit Reduction Committee gives them cover to get their way precisely because he is a Democrat. Think Bill Clinton and welfare reform or Richard Nixon going to China as examples of politicians going against the base of their party and giving cover to others.

spot on!

LOL! Well at least you appreciate the irony.

For the record, I never claimed I was impressed over his Harvard credentials. You assume too much. Didn’t George W. Bush attend an Ivy League school? Enough said.

On the other hand, I would say a guy that could waltz right into a national election and steal the spotlight from the likes of Clinton, Edwards, etc – then convince the Nation and in fact, the WORLD that he was a man full of integrity, good ideas and the new agent of change, I’d say that is one seriously slick and smart dude. The kind of slick and smart that warrants watching your back.

How could someone, so masterful at his smoke and mirrors routine, suddenly start coming across like a total rube?

It’s like he’s TRYING to get booted out in 2012.

Speaking for myself, I’m speculating based upon an already-established track record. If I were a betting man, I’d go long on Vaseline futures…

Like there was not a chance that a republican anti commie President would ever bow to Mao?

[moderated - stop the namecalling please].

One way to know if Obama is really going to change anything and go Volcker’s way — which I seriously doubt — is if TurboTax Timmy, Summers, and Bernanke walk the plank.

Yup.

We did not elect this President and This Congress to spend a year or so trying to get the opposition to be cooperative. They have made it clear (with the exception of one or two) that they have no desire to input. They oppose…that is what they do.

But the people need the business of what they mandated to get done. So I hope that Congress and this President start to listen and pass a healthcare reform bill Now !!

The waiting and debating is over. Do it now or drop it and “do” some thing else because doing nothing is not what the 08 elections were about. Expect no cooperation from the “other side” and you can never be disappointed. Lets get this congressional show on the road so that “our party” has a list of accomplishments to talk about for the mid-terms instead of the usual “explaining and defending” to do. Do Something !

Let’s just see what actually happens first ,it’s all I’m saying.
It’s a long way from establishing a commission to actually making said cuts.

And yes I would keep an eye on him , kind of hard to trust the guy these days,but as far as cutting those programs that’s a far way off if it ever happens.

Obama isn’t going to make cuts to Medicare , he’s gonna reduce the number of people on Medicare.
Sarah Palin was right !!!!!!!

The idea of pulling the financial rug out from under all these old white people who’ve been screaming about socialism does have something of an appeal I must say.

Also, W got into Yale as a legacy, it would seem that Barry got in on his grades….so you’ve got that going for ya.

Removing any limit to Fannie & Freddie loans is the tell. By doing this, they’ve put in place the next mortgage bailout.

You’ll hear alot of OOOO’ing and AHHHH’ing as the Prudential Rock is discovered to be just one more floating mountain on Pandora.

No visible means of support.

Given that Hillary was Rupert Murdoch’s pick for president, I doubt we’d seen anything other than more Clintonian centrist rhetoric with corporatist giveaways — that’s compromise where you get nothing for what you give up.

We ALREADY HAVE a bipartisan commission on budgeting: it’s called CONGRESS, and the citizens of the US send their representatives to Washington to make those decisions in the open, not in some smoke-filled backroom that allows Congress to raise taxes and escape accountability.

Democrats desperately want the pretense of a bipartisan commission to provide cover for the tax hikes they need to pay for their expensive and expansive legislative agenda.

Within 1 year the Government (Obama) managed to guarantee 24 Trillion to a couple square blocks of Manhattan, and are having a fainting spell cum bouts of hissy fits regarding 1 Trillion to buttress the Health security of the American public.

What more is needed to get the public to sit up and pay attention, billybugs?!

Well this morning I called my republican senator and let his aide know to pass a message telling him that the republicans aren’t going to get this free pass they think they got with the Brown win. No more saying NO. We want REAL change and we want to see cooperation with the President. This country has allot of problems and both parties are part of the solutions. This mornings shocking news from the supreme court now shows us all more that the republican party is bought and paid for by corporations and they have their own News Network (fox). This isn’t democracy. When you have at least 3 or 4 potential republicans going to run for office sitting on fox news channel and they turn around screaming about MSM something isn’t right here. Now supreme court gave the republicans what they want. Its is a sad day for democracy.

they have !!!
did you see the results of the Mass election ?

Having given them the chance, having exposed them as intractably obstructionist, he now has more latitude with onlookers like myself who had hoped for more civility.

Oh great. He now has more latitude with onlookers like you just as his presidency goes down in flames.

T.S.Eliot, The Hollow Men

T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Men

Apparently Obama has been in a bunker with Cheney. The last sentence of the paragraph of his first quote reveals not a naivity, but a downright idiocy. What have Republicans and Conservatives been screaming since the Reagan years; government is the problem. Wasn’t it Reagan who made famous the statement; The nine worst words in the dictionary are, I’m from the government, and I’m here to help. Every since then republicans and conservatives have run on that mantra. So, how does this man expect to prove the value of a positive influence of government in people’s lives with people who would just rather see it, as Grover Norquist put it, shrunken down small enough to flush in the bathtub. He certainly can’t make the case for positive, effective government when he adopts the meme from conservatives by calling it big government. What’s more dissappointing is this guy just got his clock cleaned in Mass, largely of his own making; and the people who have stood in his way at every turn, holding up his nominees, and delaying policy action are the very same people he proclaims he wants to work with; attain this mythical “bipartisanship” with. Got news for you Obama, unless you have a machine to change the minds and hearts of these republicans in congress and elsewhere, you have about as good a chance as a snowball in hell of being successful. Unfortunately, the rest of the country will have to suffer waiting for you to finally get it!!!!!

so you noticed, good for you.

Obama yells FIRE! I roll over and go back to sleep.

Leave the gun; take the cannoli — couldn’t resist.

Speculation.

Exactly what Lucy invoked about holding the football.

No one knows the future. The future is all speculation.

There is no proof that anything is actually going to happen, so why waste time messing with it, right?

Like falling off a 10 story roof. On the way down it’s “So far, so good”.

Yeah right Obama. Maybe you could take a page out of Martin Luther King’s book and actually show some leadership and integrity on what it is you’re trying to achieve. Because now you’ve become a complete enigma with zero credibility. Not only do you need to advocate in earnest for different policies, but you also need an entirely new political strategy when dealing with Republicans.

say what you will about the similarity in the Clinton and obama policies during the nomination process, the difference in knowing who the enemy is could not have been more stark. No doubt Clinton could have actually achieved a hell of a lot more of the Clinton/Obama agenda than Mr. Bipartisan has.