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.

Props to Nancy Pelosi who has added yet another credit to reasons why she is the best Speaker of the House that I have seen in my lifetime. Instead of giving The Tan Man and company an unwarranted break from saying, no, she called the House back into session to pass a badly needed states aid bill that will keep police, firefighters and teachers employed. This woman gets my vote if it would count for her. She shown more courage as being the guardian of the American conscience than many a man who has preceded her in that august position of Speaker of the House. She does what is right.

I ask you, real Republicans, what have the current leadership given you lately besides fear. Fear of those who don’t “look” American enough for them, fear of a man who has bent over backwards chasing the ideal of bi-partisanship, fear of an organized education system, fear of a Joker face president, fear of a president with a bone through his nose, fear of a teabag? Why do you listen to these nitwits? Why do you watch the propaganda machine that is Fox News? I’ll tell you why because it plays into your biggest fear. That you don’t matter. That somehow your country was stolen by the election of this man. This Black Man.

They say the Democrats are pandering to the teachers unions and that this bill is payback for helping to elect That Man. I, for one, am thankful for every teacher who has endured teaching my now grown children. I have found their efforts to make sure my little angels not only did not drive them crazy but also imparted knowledge they could not wait to share when they came home, truly incredible. They were not required to care for their job performance. They cared, just as my teachers did; because, this is what they do. I made sure that I was a sincere and active partner in my children’s education because of these teachers. They would not allow me to be disconnected to the process and I thank them all for it. These are the people the Republicants and Republidonts hold in such disdain. Here is the Queen R’s reaction to a teacher holding a sign reading, “Alaska’s worst Governor”, at the taping of her reality show. Also notice the goons who are trying to hide the exchange from the camera . Just watch her reaction when the woman answers Palin’s question, “so, what do you do?” courtesy of Fox News:

The current Republican leadership does not want public education because that creates too many thinkers to question the lies they endlessly repeat. They want the masses to hate each other because that diverts us from the real enemy, they who want it all to them selves. Case in point, the decimation of the middle class. They want you afraid of everything from a six foot Saudi to each other. Aren’t you tired of being bigoted, uneducated and scared? Real Republicans the country will work it out but take back your party to become part of the solution and not embrace the hypocrisy of the current Republican leadership – a main reason of  why they hate us. The whole world can see it why can’t you?

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Originally posted 2010-08-10 21:32:48.