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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: TheSarge on April 02, 2009, 02:22:40 PM
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Chicago politics has moved into the White House.
By KARL ROVE
"Don't think we're not keeping score, brother." That's what President Barack Obama said to Rep. Peter DeFazio in a closed-door meeting of the House Democratic Caucus last week, according to the Associated Press.
A few weeks ago, Mr. DeFazio voted against the administration's stimulus bill. The comment from Mr. Obama was a presidential rebuke and part of a new, hard-nosed push by the White House to pressure Congress to adopt the president's budget. He has mobilized outside groups and enlisted forces still in place from the Obama campaign.
Senior presidential adviser Valerie Jarrett and her chief of staff, Michael Strautmanis, are in regular contact with MoveOn.Org, Americans United for Change and other liberal interest groups. Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina has collaborated with Americans United for Change on strategy and even ad copy. Ms. Jarrett invited leaders of the liberal interest groups to a White House social event with the president and first lady to kick off the lobbying campaign.
Its targets were initially Republicans, as team Obama ran ads depicting the GOP as the "party of no." But now the fire is being trained on Democrats worried about runaway spending.
Americans United is going after Democrats who are skeptical of Mr. Obama's plans to double the national debt in five years and nearly triple it in 10. The White House is taking aim at lawmakers in 12 states, including Democratic Sens. Kent Conrad, Ben Nelson, Mary Landrieu, Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor. MoveOn.Org is running ads aimed at 10 moderate Senate and House Democrats. And robocalls are urging voters in key districts to pressure their congressman to get in line.
Team Obama is also ginning up the Democratic National Committee. A special group at the DNC has been created called "Organizing for America." It is headed by Mr. Obama's campaign manager, David Plouffe, and is lobbying for the administration's spending proposals.
Organizing for America's first effort has not been terribly effective. It emailed 13 million Obama election workers, recruited 1,200 neighborhood canvassers, and, after a couple of weeks and more email pleas to the Obama list, produced 642,000 signatures. Having less than 5% of your own activists sign a petition is unimpressive and perhaps evidence that adding $9.3 trillion to the deficit alarms even some of Mr. Obama's most fervent supporters.
Every White House is faced with finding ways to nudge Congress without antagonizing it. But this overt campaign could infuriate members who won't appreciate being targeted by a president of their own party. They could react by becoming recalcitrant. Should that happen, team Obama will have to recalculate its efforts, especially as the public sours on big spending plans.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123862834153780427.html
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fascist
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Change you can believe in. Indeed, I can believe rthe Government is currupt, because they are, and Obama is the highlight.
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Change you can believe in. Indeed, I can believe rthe Government is currupt, because they are, and Obama is the highlight.
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Welcome to the Democrat Party...Chicago Style.
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The only change Obama has put out is that the corruption and arm-twisting is now right out in the open for everyone to see. And he doesn't even care, because as he puts it, "I won."
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The only change Obama has put out is that the corruption and arm-twisting is now right out in the open for everyone to see. And he doesn't even care, because as he puts it, "I won."
did you hear the administrations lawyer argument in the case of that Hillary film in front of SCOTUS?? They believe the first amendment does not bar them from banning books if there is one line in 500 pages they think is "illegal advocacy". Can CC and FR be far behind?
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did you hear the administrations lawyer argument in the case of that Hillary film in front of SCOTUS?? They believe the first amendment does not bar them from banning books if there is one line in 500 pages they think is "illegal advocacy". Can CC and FR be far behind?
They actually argued that with a straight face? The same people who've laughed at...mocked and otherwise derided Christians for wanting to do the same thing?
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That's okay ****face, the american public is keeping score as well.
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They actually argued that with a straight face? The same people who've laughed at...mocked and otherwise derided Christians for wanting to do the same thing?
here is a Reason Mag article on it
http://reason.com/news/printer/132594.html
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here is a Reason Mag article on it
http://reason.com/news/printer/132594.html
This admisministration is getting scarier every day. The "fairness doctrine" is small potatoes compared to what these clowns are planning.
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Oh but see, everyone else is keeping score too 0bama.
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Oh but see, everyone else is keeping score too 0bama.
I know we are; I just hope the American public is... :banghead:
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I know we are; I just hope the American public is... :banghead:
I think most people are, even his supporters walk face down in embarrassment.
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I think most people are, even his supporters walk face down in embarrassment.
That's not enough, many of them (all?), should be committing Hara Kiri.
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I wonder how long before he tries becoming President for Life? Scary thought, huh?
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That's okay ****face, the american public is keeping score as well.
Exactly girlfriend.
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I wonder how long before he tries becoming President for Life? Scary thought, huh?
I think there was some libtard Congresswaste who already introduced a bill to repeal the 22nd Amendment. Some guy from NY, IIRC. (Found it--Jose Serrano NY-16.) Apparently even Bwaney Fwank and Dingy Harry have at one time or another proposed this as well.
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I think there was some libtard Congresswaste who already introduced a bill to repeal the 22nd Amendment. Some guy from NY, IIRC. (Found it--Jose Serrano NY-16.) Apparently even Bwaney Fwank and Dingy Harry have at one time or another proposed this as well.
I think that there are no co-sponsors of this, as one of Serranto's colleagues pointed out that these things cycle around after a while, and the Law of Unintended Consequences could bring a Republican in--for life. Can you imagine if they pulled this, and the first President to take advantage of it was Sarah Palin or Bobby Jindal?
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The threat evidently didn't phase 20 dem congressjerks and 2 dem senatejerks, since it was that many dems who voted against "the messiah's" fy2010 budget.
It will be interesting to watch and see how "the messiah" gets his payback.
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I think that there are no co-sponsors of this, as one of Serranto's colleagues pointed out that these things cycle around after a while, and the Law of Unintended Consequences could bring a Republican in--for life. Can you imagine if they pulled this, and the first President to take advantage of it was Sarah Palin or Bobby Jindal?
Marxist America would never let this happen.
Now that they have power, they will do anything to keep it.
We face very dark times ahead.
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Sara Palin, President for life. Frankly, I'd smile. Maybe that's why the Dem's hate her so.
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Sara Palin, President for life. Frankly, I'd smile. Maybe that's why the Dem's hate her so.
They hate everything, that interferes with their views of utopia.
Sara is their worst nightmare.
Maybe nightmares can be reality.
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Dems/Libs are just jealous of Sarah Palin because they don't have a female in their party who looks as HOT as she does.
The same applies to why the alphabet networks are jealous of Fox News -- I have yet to see an UNattractive lady on Fox News and have yet to see an attractive one on the alphabet networks.
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Quite so, Blusesuiter, quite so.