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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated

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To: unclewest who wrote (305345)5/16/2009 3:56:35 AM
From: Nadine Carroll2 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) of 793883
 

This is just another change. I would argue that O knows he must create anger, frustration and chaos among his constituents (as well as us) to keep his move towards socialism progressing.


He may try; he certainly has the will to power and the willingness to say anything, throw anyone under the bus to get it. But he's moving too fast and being too obvious. Contrary to what he seems to think, he was elected President, not king. And he has outsourced the detail work to dumb-as-a-pile-of-rocks Nancy Pelosi, who has just fearlessly gone to war with the CIA. That worked so well for the Bush administration.

Already, dissent is brewing among the Blue Dogs:

Two powerful groups of moderate Democratic lawmakers have met with their House leaders to warn against pushing health care reform proposals too far to the left.

The New Democrat Coalition and the Blue Dogs met separately Thursday with Democratic leaders to push for legislation they could embrace.

"We made it pretty clear that there are 51 of us, and if they want our vote on health care reform, we're going to be pretty involved in writing the bill," said Rep. Mike Ross (D-Ark.), chairman of the Blue Dogs' health care task force.

The first-of-their-kind meetings signaled that it could be more difficult than many expected for the House to pass a more progressive bill as a counterweight to a more moderate version expected to come from the Senate.

Read more: politico.com


After hubris, nemesis.
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