Poll: GOP Divided Over Party's Direction, Leaders

You've seen toddlers writhing with indignation on the floor of the supermarket? That's pretty much the intellectual equivalent.



An immature intellect knows how to express dissatisfaction, but can't do much else.
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Geithner Is "Obama's Rumsfeld": Replace Him With Robert Reich

When the president I voted for finally makes an appointment or initiates a legislative pursuit that doesn't primarily benefit maintenance of the status quo (i.e. keep the absurdly wealthy absurdly wealthy, and the huge corporate interests appeased), then I will revert back to my position of "cautious optimism."



At this point we can't, in good conscience, give Obama the benefit of the doubt for anything on the economy.



With the current track record of clearly prioritizing groups like mortgage companies and banks over working Americans, Obama has provided ample proof that there is no hope that someone like Reich will ever have a role in this administration.



Mark my words, if Geinther was to step down, his replacement will be another Wall Street insider or DLC hack. An American flag cape will be pinned to his/her shoulders and pandering babble about 'cleaning up Wall Street' will follow - and change will be entirely constrained to the name on the office letterhead.
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Obama and Charges of Elitism-Again

This is oddly similar to another equally disoriented post by a different HuffPo blogger a couple days ago.



The hate spew frothing from the limbaughs is meaningless to the vast majority of the country's voters. Them screaming "elitist" means nothing and it's almost bizarre that anyone would make that a key lynch-pin in an argument.



The only issue that is relevant is that Obama was elected to make strong steps toward cleaning up a dysfunctional Executive Branch and lead legislative initiatives to fix the economy and our failed foreign policies.



What we all see - regardless if we listen to Air America or Faux News - is virtually none of that taking place.



We see dithering, stern speechifying about personal responsibility, capitulation to - and even incorporation of (vis a vis Treasury Sec and economic advisor picks) - the forces that have decimated our nation's economy. And virtually no real movement on real issues with real impact on real people.



Calling Obama "elitist" would truly be a most trite and shallow aspersion at this point. And it would most absolutely have only an infinitely microscopic impact on how the public views him, his administration, and his "accomplishments" to date.



I had a sign in my yard for Obama and am a lifelong Democrat. We started last January with an historic opportunity to right so many wrongs. Well, if the first 10 months are any indication of the next 3 years, we picked the wrong guy for the job.
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