“I think [Obama's] biggest mistake that he has made in his first year was to put bipartisanship ahead of fixing the country. He spent all his political capital on getting three damned votes for that stimulus bill, instead of coming in with all the energy from the election and saying, you know what, we‘re in a crisis mode; I won this election by a sizable mandate; here‘s what we‘re going to do; if you don‘t like it, Republicans, you can suck on it.”
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Van Jones, the President’s green jobs czar who was dumped by the administration after Glenn Beck’s paranoid campaign, had this to say about his former boss.
“[President Obama] is a world class leader, a man who volunteered to be the captain of the Titanic after it hit the iceberg, and we’re still floating, and we’re still floating.”
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“This is a brilliant speech. Realistically won’t do any good unless senate centrists grow consciences, unemployment falls.” Matt Yglesias on Twitter
For all of his good intentions, Obama cannot do it alone. If centrists in Congress persist in focusing on the November midterms instead of what’s right for the country, then all the good intentions in the world won’t do a damn thing.
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An oversimplication of what went wrong in Massachusetts? Perhaps, but not by too much.
“When times are bad and people are anxious, it gets directed against the party in power.” -Tom Mann of the Brookings Institution
Until the economy shows real signs of recovery, independents will choose to show their dissatisfaction with Obama. At this point, it matters not what factors led to the current economic situation or who is honestly to blame. When unemployment hovers at 10%, the guy in the White House is the only person on trial. Rational or not, that’s the way it works.
So while progressives attack from the left and conservatives battle away from the right, Dems need to be hopeful that the economic numbers improve dramatically before November. If not, then expect to see many more Scott Browns in Congress.
I know, right now, that the Democrats in Washington are a bit shell-shocked by Scott Brown’s win in Massachusetts. That is understandable. But the solution is not to shut down Congress for the rest of the year. I know some Democrats can’t wait to start using the fact that they only have 59 votes in the Senate as an acceptable excuse for doing nothing. That would be a disaster, and no one–whether they closely follow politics or not–will find that excuse for failing to deliver plausible. This is a warning: make Republican obstructionism your main campaign theme for 2010, and you will lose badly.
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Leaving aside political cynicism, this entire affair proves that the GOP is not simply still infected with the vestiges of white supremacy and racism, but is neither aware of the infection, nor understands the disease. Listening to Liz Cheney explain why Harry Reid’s comments were racist, was like listening to me give lessons on the finer points of the comma splice. This a party, rightly or wrongly, regarded by significant portions of the country as a haven for racists. They aren’t simply having a hard time re-branding, they don’t actually understand how and why they got the tag.
These guys are lost.
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African-American is a bogus, PC, made-up term. I mean, that’s not a race. Your ancestry is from Africa and now you live in America. Ok so you were brought over — either your family was brought over through the slave trade or you were born here and your family emigrated here or whatever but that is not a race.
Come on Glenn, why not just say it. An all white America would be so much easier for you to accept. If nothing else, there would be no chance of a black guy ever being your president. How great would that be?
Is there a Moron-Bigot-American classification in the census or is that not a race either?
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Yes, we need to fix our intelligence. Yes, we absolutely must live up to our own ideals, as President Obama is trying to do in banning torture and closing Guantánamo Bay. We can’t let this “war on terrorism” consume us. We can’t let our country become just The United States of Fighting Terrorism and nothing more. We are the people of July 4th — not Sept. 11th.
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“The extent to which he can recover seems to me depends on his faith. He is said to be a Buddhist. I don’t think that faith offers the kind of forgiveness and redemption that is offered by the Christian faith. My message to Tiger is, ‘Tiger, turn to the Christian faith and you can make a total recovery and be a great example to the world.”
Hume does make a valid point. What better religion than Christianity to turn to for support when troubled by infidelity. After all, this is the religion of John Ensign, Mark Sanford, John Edwards, Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, Rudy Giuliani, David Vitter…to say nothing of the thousands of priests who have been involved in sex scandals over the years.
Hume is just continuing what he’s done best over the years – spreading ignorance and intolerance.
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“It’s been a banner year for conservative idiocy. The ranters, the haters, the bigots, the self-loathing closet cases and prattling greed-heads were all out in force. They’ll be back again next year–you can count on it. As long as there’s money to be made peddling crap, crap peddlers won’t go away. And they’re taking no prisoners…”
I wonder what daddy would think? You can hear the entire Reagan audio clip here.
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