Obama Calls Out Senate Republicans: Pass Small Business Bill

The dubya tax cuts were rammed through the Senate using Reconciliation.



If the President would call on Harry Reid to use the same lawful maneuver to get these bills passed right away, then I would be more inclined to believe the awkward claim that he is "pushing this economy forward..."



However, it sure looks to me like it's just more of the worn-out, 'oh woe is powerless little me, President of the United States,' election season blah blah.



Get Reid on deck and pass the blasted bill - THEN kick the repugs [and blue dogs] in the gr0in for refusing to support it and forcing the use of the "nuclear option." Just for the heckuvit, demonstrate why you're better than the other side instead of trying to prove that the other side is loathsome. The latter without the former is nothing.
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"Solutions for America" Offered

"But nobody should pretend that conservatives are devoid of good ideas."



First, conservatives have plenty of good ideas.

Second, there are NO conservatives at heritage foundation.

Third, there are NO conservatives in the republican party.

Fourth, the steaming ideas served up by repugs and the heritage foundation are all indigestible failures.



These "solutions" are guaranteed to deliver the kill shot that will plunge this country into REAL class warfare. Not the hokey class warfare snickered at by faux news and excoriated by teabaggers. I mean the kind where millionaires have to hire their own small armies to protect the places that used to be their "homes" but were converted to "fortresses."



Having almost everything isn't enough for the insatiable cro.oks behind the repuglican party and the heritage foundation.
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On the Rage of Gibbs

Were you hollering "hey, 911 changed everything!" at us lefties in 2004 when we attacked dubya? You would deserve credit and respect for consistency if you did. Otherwise, spare me the mound of steaming excuse.
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Rep. Grayson Unleashes On Gibbs: "Bozo The Spokesman" (VIDEO)

Considering the fact that the conservative movement has pushed Congress to the most extreme right - probably as far right as it's ever been - I, and anyone else who recognizes the need to move policy way back leftward, cheer Grayson on.



He talks the talk and walks the walk (although I'm not sure I agree 100% with his tact on Net Neutrality). He introduces legislation that attempts to address real problems with real solutions.



You seem to comment like someone in emanuel's staff would talk. You're more afraid of how repugs will respond to public statements than you are about how Dems and those who have recognized the abject failure of repug "policy" will respond to the words and deeds of Dem reps.



True repugs did not vote for the President - and they did not vote for Grayson. They never, ever will. So instead of worrying about what their knuckledheads are processing, how about we start concerning ourselves more about what the people who have or may vote for these folks think about the record of our elected and appointed Dems. OK? Deal?
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Yelling At The 'Professional Left' Is One Of The White House's Few Joys

rahm has jammed cotton in all their ears and dispatched the squadron of excusetrolls to put up a wall of "white noise" to drown us out.



None of them hears us. Wish I knew how to break through because, as a non-millionaire, my voice is meaningless to the repugs, too.
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Arianna On Olbermann: 'It's No Use Just Giving Us Happy Talk'

I used to agree that we need to get over 60 Dems in the Senate, etc. Not anymore. There have been several bills that could have run through Reconciliation in the Senate (only 51 votes needed). Dubya and the pugs used that path over a dozen times in dubya's 8 years. We could have had a far more sensible stimulus package (no useless tax cutting, etc.) and a Public Option if there was the will to actually get the job done in DC.



At this point, I can only conclude that either Reid, Obama, or both, are cowa.rdly - or afraid of being attacked in the media as 'unfair' to repugs by resorting to this approach.



If I were more cynical, I'd suspect that they don't want to accomplish too much on purpose. The theory goes that if things were turning around, voters would be less inclined to get out to the polls, donate to Dems, or work for Dem candidates. It would take the pressure off and allow pugs to get elected. But I'm not that cynical. Well, almost not that cynical... because so long as critters like rahm emanuel are running things, underhanded, sle.azy stuff never surprises.
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Arianna On Olbermann: 'It's No Use Just Giving Us Happy Talk'

Absolute nonsense. The repugs had control of Congress from 1994 through 2006. With a couple policy exceptions in the 90s (e.g. Family Leave Act), Dem legislation has been largely suffocated. The pugs went into an attack mode under dubya that prevented around 90% of the bills authored by Dems from ever getting past committees.



Their constituents (the wealthy) got everything they wanted under dubya. The one thing you can bet on is that if they get back control of Congress and WH, they will run the same exact playbook. Your "hope" that a future repug president wouldn't rule the way that the repugs ACTUALLY RULED from 2001 through 2008 is laugh.able.
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