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.

Told you so!!!

I said it. The current leadership talks tough about the issues they have mistakenly wedded themselves to. By pandering to the lowest, meanest, most ugly fringe in our country, they have marginalized themselves to the precipice  of oblivion. They disrespected the American attention span and memory. They lied to all real Republicans by running on job creation in 2010. Using the anxiety most Americans feel about jobs they won huge gains in Congress and called it a mandate to pursue the fringe agenda of social issues.

They counted on the Democrats angering the Progressive base to win those seats. An excellent calculation on their part. In their arrogance, they took that win to be an endorsement of fringe agendas. If you campaign on jobs and pursue union busting, denial of abortions and women’s health services, cutting of education, cutting the Social Security benefits of our seniors, Medicare for our seniors, Medicaid for our poor, restriction of access to voting, you show yourselves to be what everyone already thought of you. You are out of touch and mean spirited snakes whose only purpose is political power and control so that you may serve your big monied donors. You have shown through your actions that you care nothing about the “The American People” you love to quote in front of every microphone.

You have had an axe to grind ever since the Nixon impeachment and have proven that you have no respect at all for the office of the presidency. You have made it your mission to attempt to destroy every Democrat who wins election to the White House. Instead of governing and statesmanship we get gang warfare. We get a bunch of tough talking bullies who would destroy how our president is viewed by running easily manipulated figureheads for the office and when a Democrat wins, make sure that any attempt to govern is met with a resounding NO. You care nothing for our country or it’s people. We are merely a means to your end of maintaining the economic chasm that exists between the haves and have nots.

You will not dare support anything that could help the country or it’s people because if you did and work was actually done, you may need to resort to actually defending what it is you are really about. You have become the party of the obscenely rich and the scourge of the middle class.

HEY MORONS!! IT WAS A ROBUST MIDDLE CLASS THAT MADE THIS COUNTRY THE ENVY OF THE WORLD!!

Has America diminished since the Nixon impeachment? You bet it has. You made sure of that. You elect these yes men to the office when you win the White House and leave a steaming pile to clean up for any Democrat who would dare take the Oval Office away from you due to your own incompetence.

Look at what you are giving this country as an alternative to Obama. Your rank and file party members can’t even get behind any of them with any vigor. The inadequacies of what you have fielded for candidacy are obvious to most thinking Americans so I will not waste time going in on them. I think Colbert had it right when he did his bit on the generic candidate.

If you have so little respect for the people of this country that the best you can do is the guy above, you deserve the oblivion you are careening toward. We need statesmen not petulant children to help pull this country out of the morass. It is not President Obama who has failed, IT IS YOU!!

PS. While you are stalling and putting the full faith and credit of the United States in jeopardy in the name of what Joe Scarborough calls “simple math”. Consider this simple math. The people you are targeting with all of your over reach outnumber the people you answer to by a huge margin and you WILL hear from us in 2012.

Originally posted 2011-07-16 22:09:53.