Politics Chicago style was in full effect when our President Obama snookered the GOP give-us-tax-cuts-for-the-rich-like-us crowd led by McConnell and Boehner in to agreeing to the biggest, most effective and targeted stimulus in American history!

Could the Dems actually be complicit with our president by feigning their indignation over what they hold out as a bad deal? You know what the Republicant’s strategy is, if the Dems like it we will oppose it. I would like to think that my beloved Democratic Party got their mojo back and are finally playing smart politics. If the Dems come out loud and strong against the deal, it is almost guaranteed that the GOP Neanderthals will in knee-jerk fashion vote overwhelmingly for the deal. The Dems can then quietly vote yes on this brilliant piece of negotiating and save the country!

I give big “I Got Beef” props to Bernie Sanders, Democratic Senator from Vermont for conducting an old fashioned “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” style filibuster to close the deal in the senate. Surely, if Bernie Sanders, self avowed socialist is willing to launch this filibuster, then the Dems and Obama must really hate it therefore the GOP must vote for it.



Surely, if Nancy Pelosi, the most effective Speaker of the House in modern history, does not want to bring the proposal to a vote, then the House Dems must hate it, therefore the GOP must vote for it. Surely, if the Democratic Caucus was raucous enough to make sure that comments such as “f”@k the president” and “we can’t trust him” were loud enough to be heard by denizens of the White House press corps, they must be really pissed at the black guy, therefore the GOP must vote for it.

I apologize for calling you Shirley – RIP Leslie Nielsen

Did the Dems finally figure out that they must use the GOP pin-headedness against them? Make sure that a big show is put on that they hate a piece of legislation, assuring a GOP ratification of the measure. That ladies and germs is how you get around the party of No.

I would like to think that my beloved Democrats have figured it out and will dedicate themselves to proving to the Tea Baggers, pseudo-conservatives, Uber-partisans and the thinking American public just what the New and Improved GOP is all about. Sadly, I fear that the truth is that they are being played as well but, for a far nobler cause.

Letting the GOP think they have beaten the president into submission, 2 years of tax breaks. Eating crap from your own party to sell the hatred of the deal, a few days in the news cycle. Job growing stimulus, middle class payroll tax break, getting rid of the “uncertainty” of the “job-creators” thereby spurring on hiring and making a dent in unemployment, Inheritance tax: After a year’s lapse, individual estates worth more than $5 million (twice that for couples) are now subject to a 35% levy whose current tax rate is zero, Payroll tax holiday: Will extend across all income levels, costing $120 billion. A couple making $70,000 a year will see $1,400 in savings, Businesses: Will be able to deduct 100% of the cost of new investments for the next two years, Stimulus extensions: Expanded versions of the college tuition deduction, child tax credit, and earned income credit will remain on the books, Emergency unemployment benefits: A 13-month extension will affect 2 million workers set to be cut off by the end of the year,

PRICELESS!!

Well played Mr. President!! This is who I voted for.

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Originally posted 2010-12-10 21:20:20.

Bitch McConnell said that the Republican top priority was to make sure that Barack Obama was a one term president.

Not deficit reduction, not job creation, not rebuilding our country, not to see our country come out of a desperate economic time. Republicans, at all costs, make sure that this president fails at everything he attempts to fix our wounded republic. They filibuster every vote and those that they don’t filibuster they require a super majority for anything to get passed. They amend with language that obscures the original intent of the legislation. When they say Obama has been a failure, it is partly true because they have done all they can to ensure it.

Here is the strategy that Obama is playing directly into. He has compromised on every major piece of legislation he has proposed resulting in watered down reforms that come no where near the original goals. He has agreed to tax cuts for the wealthy that he knows are detrimental to the economy. With every cut in government spending, another few hundred to thousands of people join the already enormous ranks of the unemployed – not to mention the cost to services we once had that once were funded. Guess what that does? It makes the unemployment percentage higher. Who are the new unemployed? Teachers, Firemen, Police, Emergency first responders, Sanitation, Government agency workers – you know the ones who used to answer your call when you were in trouble or needed answers?

This is why the Deficit is the only word Republicans know right now – why it is their main talking point. They know that if unemployment is high, odds are against an incumbent president. With the pathetic field they have in place, they will use every dirty trick in the book to get another figurehead they can manipulate into office.  This may sound like I am beating up on Obama and partly, yes I am. But when he got elected, the slogan was not YES I CAN but YES WE CAN. There was no way he was going to get anything accomplished if the opposition was not willing to work with him on ANYTHING. WE, my friends, killed the hope and change we voted for by allowing the lunatic fringe to have louder voices than ours. There are more of us than them.

Let us be clear, when our president wins, the country wins but he can not do it by himself. We must make sure that the Republican minority is so minor that they will not be able to obstruct as they have for Obama’s first 2 years. We can not afford to get angry at Democrats so much so that we allow  Republicans to get elected. Remember the carnage of the 2010 election cycle. We got rid of those pesky Blue Dogs by not turning out to vote. Unfortunately, that strategy also allowed Republicans to win. How is that working out for us now? States with Republican governors and legislatures are now seeking to make it even more difficult for traditional Democrat base voters to register and vote. We are at war for the America we really want to live in. One with a robust middle class.

Tax cuts for the wealthy. After all they are for the “job creators” aren’t they. They have had these tax cuts for 2 terms of  a Bush presidency. Mr Boehner, Where are the jobs? Explain to us all how a 3% rise in the top tax rate will suddenly impoverish the wealthy or cause a businessman not to hire any new employees. 3%, are you shitting me? The full faith and credit of the United States is being held hostage by a Republican party that refuses to raise the top tax bracket by 3%. This is what it is about. Seriously?!!!

This is what that missing 3% in revenue is costing us. Infrastructure that is the laughing stock of the industrialized world we once led. It is giving an excuse to Republican governors to bust unions, de-fund essential services for women like Planned Parenthood where many lower income women receive their primary care. That’s right they do much more than just abort fetuses. The governors can now cut public education that was once the envy of the world to point of school closings and massive teacher layoffs. But, Republican’s are all about the children, right? It is a fact that more jobs were created while that tax rate was in place for the top bracket.

• Number of jobs as of January, 1993, a week before Clinton took office: 109.725 million.
• Number of jobs as of Jan. 2001, a week before Clinton left office: 132.469 million
• Net Gain under Clinton: 22.7 million jobs.

Now for Bush, who succeeded Clinton in the White House. As already noted, the nation had 132.469 million jobs as he was taking office.

• Number of jobs on Jan. 12, 2009, a week before Bush left office: 133.549 million.

• Net gain under Bush: 1.08 million jobs.

Quoted from Politifact article: Sherrod Brown touts job growth during Clinton presidency vs. Bush’s jobs record

Now, Bitch and Boehner, explain to us again, why we should not return the top tax bracket to the 3% margin it was in the Clinton years? We need to make the Republicans a 1 term majority in every branch of government. Federal and state.

Originally posted 2011-07-09 21:54:46.