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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (84860)	11/5/2010 10:18:58 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 149317

What set Boehner off was the American Dream. Here in his hour of triumph was the 60-year-old Ohio-born architect of the Republican recapture of the House of Representatives reduced to sobbing. His voice broke. He broke down crying because he's an alcoholic.

To: Road Walker who wrote (84860)	11/5/2010 10:20:00 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 149317

Hmmmm......the first job report is very good after the midterms.......the best we've seen in nearly a year. Why do I want to believe in a conspiracy????

To: Road Walker who wrote (84860)	11/5/2010 10:47:44 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 149317

Nobody Cares About Process Urk. I just gave up on the presidential press conference. When Obama declared that Americans rejected Democrats in part because “We were in such a hurry to get things done that we didn’t change how things got done,” I checked out. Nobody cares about this stuff — they care about results. Nobody really cares about earmarks; they’re just code for spending less (less on somebody else, of course, not me). Nobody cares about civility and bipartisanship, which in practice are code for Democrats giving in to Republican demands. Nobody cares about parliamentary maneuvers: we can argue about the role of health reform in the election, but I bet not one voter in 50 knows or cares that it was passed using reconciliation (as were the sacred Bush tax cuts we must, must retain). If Obama had used fancy footwork and 2 AM sessions to pass a big public works program, and this program had brought unemployment down, Republicans would be screaming about the process — and Democrats would have comfortably held control of Congress. Remember the voter backlash against the way Medicare drug benefits were passed? Neither do I. Oh, by the way — nobody cares about the deficit, either.

To: Road Walker who wrote (84860)	11/5/2010 10:51:43 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Nations have tipping-points. Move France too far toward the first word in its revolutionary rallying cry – “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity” — at the expense of the other two and the nation will rise up. Tilt America too far from its lodestone of rugged individualism (always rugged), free markets and the liberty of the frontier, and this nation will rise in anger. It doesn’t matter that Obama saved U.S. capitalism from meltdown through a massive bailout. It doesn’t matter that Wall Street has fared just fine. Somewhere in the past two years — and I’d place that moment in the midst of the agonizing passage of health care reform — the conviction gelled in wide swathes of an underemployed, over-indebted, war-sapped, anxious, aggrieved nation that Obama’s United States was crossing the bridge from American self-reliance to the “big government” of the European nanny state. Hate to say it but I am not buying into America's rugged individualism concerns. Its all about jobs. Provide the jobs and people will be happy.