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A President in Reverse
By William Rivers Pitt
t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed
Tuesday 02 August 2011
Obama's starting point was a demand for a "clean," unencumbered bill to raise the ceiling; House Speaker John Boehner said no. What would have happened if Obama refused to budge? We don't know because that's not his style. It would be nice, someday, to find out.
- Eugene Robinson, The Washington Post, 8/1/2011
The United States of America is different today, different in a fundamental and dramatic way, and is a better place now only for a few thousand people who are rich enough to remain above the effect of this transformation. For the rest of us, the 99% who stay up nights worrying about health care bills, retirement, finding a job, keeping a job, and aging parents who now dangle above a deliberately frayed safety net, it is a colder and more dangerous country we call home.
If I hear one more person try to tell me the deal cut between Congress and the White House was as good as we can expect, that it isn't all bad, I might vomit on them. This whole thing has been a disaster, and no amount of spin can alter the fact. Mr. Obama has taken to the habit of abject retreat with such gusto that he should be outfitted with one of those beeping devices they put on trucks to alert people when they go in reverse. At least that way, we will have some warning the next time this Democratic president backs away from the very policies and priorities he was elected to protect and defend.
We sure could have used such a signal during this debt-fight calamity.
I want a clean debt bill. Beep-beep-beep, never mind.
I want, no, I demand revenue enhancements - not from new taxes, but from closing loopholes - and I will reject any bill that does not include them. Beep-beep-beep, forget I said that.
We must protect Social Security and Medicare. Beep-beep-beep, but now I look good to Independent voters, or something, right?
It has become an all too familiar sound, really.
I will close Guantanamo. Beep-beep-beep.
There needs to be a public option in the health care reform bill. Beep-beep-beep.
The Bush-era tax cuts? Beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep.
An interesting thing happens when someone backs up. They get smaller in your vision, receding slowly but surely until they are all but invisible. So it is with this president, who goes into the 2012 election season a small fraction of the man who would supposedly make history.
The rest: http://www.truth-out.org/president-reverse/1312300026
Blah blah blah blah moonbat.
Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Aug-02-11 02:55 PM
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12. Very nice Will.
Edited on Tue Aug-02-11 02:57 PM by Horse with no Name
Very accurate.
We've had a load of toxic waste dumped on us and the apologists just want us to notice how functional it could be if only WE were smart enough to figure it out!
You're the toxic waster dump with all the dicks you touch.
WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Aug-02-11 03:05 PM
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16. Done that a couple of times already Updated at 2:29 PM
but if you'd like me to again, I'm game.
;)
In 24 business hours they will like you again.
EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Aug-02-11 03:24 PM
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21. Independent voters want jobs just as we do. K&R
I heard Cali needs a job. lol
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1644019
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He is not an eloquent writer. He is not a thought provoking person in the least. But he lies good, and changes with the wind. I remember when he turned on poor Andy, and sentenced him to death. LOL.
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All those "beep-beep-beep" things make me think that Cal Piggy wrote another poem.
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This . . . well, individual:
EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Aug-02-11 03:24 PM
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21. Independent voters want jobs just as we do. K&R
Poor, stupid Beth fails to realize that a lot of independent voters did not want massive government spending to accompany whatever jobs were "saved or created" from the Obamessiah's ass.
The earthquake has happened under the sea that is the American voting public. The tsunami is building.
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But Will, I thought it was 20-dimensional chess, and it was just us Conservative Neanderthals who were too stoopid to realize how totally out-played we were by The Grand Obamameister...?
:rotf:
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If I hear one more person try to tell me the deal cut between Congress and the White House was as good as we can expect, that it isn't all bad, I might vomit on them.
That's a risk one always takes when within puking distance of a drooling, staggering drunkard.
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That's a risk one always takes when within puking distance of a drooling, staggering drunkard.
The Bostonian Drunkard acts as if we should care whether he pukes or not.
We don't.
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What's the matter, Wee Willy? Let me ask you a question... are you gonna vote for the obumbler next election? He done tossed you under the bus... again. So, you gonna do what ya always do and pull the lever for him again?
I bet you will. Prove me wrong, sot. Post it on DU.
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The Bostonian Drunkard acts as if we should care whether he pukes or not.
We don't.
I'm sure the pothole filled streets of Boston have already sampled plenty of Sir William the Pittiful's gastric contents. I suspect they are the only ones who care if he unloads again.