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The Obama Administration: Re-Elected! 332-206 (Probably)
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Considering the relative amount of oxygen available to both sides of the comma in that compound sentence, I'd be surprised if enough Americans are even aware that the second part happened for it to matter.
Look I'm sure the US attorny of DC appointed by Obama will put top men into investigating AG Holder. TOP MEN!
I did get a chuckle that a right wing wank fest blog complained Holder went to Disney World on vacation, and not a sentence later mentions its official business of a latino outreach program. Thats the biggest hair pulling problem with republicans, they flat out lie in one sentence tell the truth in the next, and then go back to the lie as if the truth was never there.
There's also the fact that the second part is very likely going to be an entirely meaningless act.
Edit - Oh, SyphonBlue just said the exact same thing. Yeah!
I think the use of "unprecedented" and "House Democrats walked out in disgust" I've seen in every every article, no matter the political bias of the source, also helps.
Isn't it dumb to try to make news on a Friday? Or is that going away with more people getting their news from Internet sources (that they can port around with them).Whoops that was yesterday. I still agree it'll likely get buried by the healthcare stories.
He had a good day, even the trackers were +3 (Gallup) or tied (Ras) with somebody (Quinnipiac?) releasing polls showing him up in Ohio and Florida.
And to demonstrate the political purpose that the consistently fucked Gallup and Ras polls serve, they are the only polls I ever hear mention of on conservative talk radio. Numbers for the spin machine!
Actually, the legal proceedings regarding the legality of the Fast & Furious program are pretty much over. And after going over, what was it...7000 documents, Issa hasn't even come close to asserting there was any illegal activity going on. The only ongoing contention is over why the committee was originally told that the administration didn't have any knowledge prior to some date which they later had to correct. So I won't take a magazine article's word for it. I'll take Darrell Issa's word for it since presumably he'd have already filed charges if there was any evidence to support them.
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This was moved to the Fast & Furious thread.
Yup, Republicans have been telling the Forest Service's request for new helicopters to get bent for decades and now it's all Obama's fault somehow
That fire thing is irritating.
Michelle Malkin is a soul-less monster.
Like if these forest fires were in Washington State in the western parts of the state, she'd have no issue proclaiming them a positive act of god.
The bolded is what I despise about Snowe. She has already announced retirement, this bill was needed for the country, and she still voted present, what a picture of a moderate.
Transportation, student loans, and flood insurance, they wrapped it all up into one bill.
Probably.
Incidentally, if she ever shows her face in Seattle she's going to be glitter-bombed back to the stone age. Among other things.
made me at least a little happy.
Obama wouldn't pull a regan and sell weapons to iran so they can continue doing something congress outlawed? Crazy. As bad as drone strikes are, they are at least effective and cost little actual man power or danger from our country to pull them off. Then again I can say that as a resident of the US not in danger of being blown up by a robot from the sky.
It would be interesting if the Republican led House took that as a reason to try and outlaw or prevent drone strikes.
If Obama goes along with the ban he's putting troops at risk, and if he ignores it or vetoes it he's a dictator/warmonger. And a ban on Drone strikes might not be impossible to get through the Senate.
Yes it would.
They (GOP) can't do, it'd piss off their contracting buddies.
I was tempted to post this in the Presidential thread but I didn't want to derail or create a mess in there given the current discussion on Mitt the Ripper's affairs with Bain. Spoilers since it's a large picture.
Anyways, the math comes out to 999082557 dollars wasted on political posturing. Sure it can be argue that Congress would have been in succession for those 33 days and by that logic the money was going to be spent; however, it can also be argued that those 33 days would have been better spent on legislation that wasn't dead upon conception. It's also rather galling that the party bitching the most about deficits and that big government be ineffective, is holding up other pieces of legislation to declare 33 different times, in a two year span that they are against ACA. This wouldn't be in an issue if they had one vote on it in early 2010 and maybe another after the ruling, but nope, the crybaby GOP had to do 33 votes to say something that could have easily been said in campaign literature.
People used to the Clintonian style don't know how to react to that.
Well, if you go by that Atlantic article you linked before, it's more that he doesn't give out enough handjobs to grease the wheels and make the beltway insider scum feel special enough to want to help him.
Well that's what I meant by "aloof"
EDIT: I guess I could say the the same thing about Romney, with with the difference being Romney Romney doesn't get it. It being the plight of the not millionaires.
Yeah, that's not the point he's making, I don't think. He's saying he hasn't used the bully pulpit well.
FDR convinced people to invest their money in banks again, when they had no good reason (given what had happened) to believe it would be safe there. But he explained what was going on in a way that was simple, but didn't insult voter's intelligence, and actually convinced people to trust him. And it worked!
I'd say it's definitely something you can claim about Obama, that he's not very adept at this. Really though, I just think him and the Democrats don't even try very hard. It's part of why Republicans seem to be so successful at rebranding the language for their political purposes, there's just not very much opposition at that level of discourse.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/03/obama-explained/8874/
Specifically:
It's not that he doesn't care, it's that politics demands giving out greasy blowbos to everyone you come across to make the dipshits feel special.
But there's also the problem that everyone in the world seems to want the first black president to fail at something major.
I recall after November '08 there was a debate of some sort between right-wing pundits about whether they should hope Obama manages to fix the country, or hope he fails completely
I guess the latter side won
Maybe I'm confused about about the source of the the criticism, are the people people saying he's aloof average average voters or the media?
EDIT: Oh wow my phone fucked that quote tree; fixed now.
The Modern GOP: Party Before Country.
It's the people working in federal government.
In the Atlantic article? Yeah, that's one of the points that was made. Obama doesn't gladhand enough.
Not what Obama was talking about there, but the charges of being "aloof and distant" come from the people who deal with him personally.
Damn Obama.
The people have spoken, and they want Four More Years of Obama/Biden fun!
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