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Alright TPM.
Who is this writer?
And what have you done with the real Sahil Kapur?
jw1
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Remaking the federal courts for a generation.
This.
And why it is of utmost import to have a (D) as POTUS in '16.
As likely SCOTUS appointments will shape our lives for the next 2-3 decades.
jw1
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Despite these and things like the stock market soaring lowest defects unemployment and the ACA the Demās ran away and got their asses kicked because they are a bunch of wimps
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This lifetime 72 year old liberal agrees with you. Was ashamed of how they ran!!
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Not to mention the potential decimation of the right wing governments of Russia, Israel and North Korea and the decimation of the right wingers in the USA with the 2016 election cycle.
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I have less issue with House (D)s-- not aligning themselves with the administrations actual accomplishmentsā
than I do the Senate. Holding the Senate would have been helpful.
Still highly improbable historically-- given that it was a mid-term.
Historically, both for low-(D) voter turnout-- and that the party āin-powerā generally loses seats in mid-termsā
particularly with a lame-duck POTUS.
Donāt allow the results or actions of this past election tinge the next.
Thatās the meme Ā®s would love for (D)s to take-away from 2014ās results.
jw1
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I think he couldāve found something more transformational than point 5.
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Well this 63 year old Liberal sure as hell does not agree with either of you. What Democrat lost office because he or she was a wimp? Keep on feeding the myths āmy friendā ā¦you will pay for it in the end. Hell, you may have already paid for it.
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And with the economy on the up and up, plummeting gasoline prices (yeah, I know this is largely forces outside the work of the POTUS - I bring it up because wingnuts use higher prices against him), and being on track to leave office with a budgetary surplus - Iām sure any minute now weāll get someone over from RedState or some other internet shit hole to set us all straight as to why weāre totally for shizzies living under tyranny. Count on it.
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No, itās because Americans pay no attention to hard news stories, are focused on the themes of the right wing Mainstream Media, and refuse under any circumstances to take the responsibility of voting seriously during midterms. The rancid ideological Red State effect is also more pronounced with a black President in his sixth year as well.
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This is by far the most aggravating thing for me about U.S. politics. The grip that the right-wing media has on the psyche of our populace is staggering. Obama deserves his criticism, as any politician should, but if these exact numbers were apparent under a Republican administration, AM radio and Fox News et al. would be screaming from the rooftops as to how awesomely awesome The New Reagan is and how conservative ideology had prevailed. Instead, the current theme is set to āAl Sharpton = Badā. Seriously, all the people on my FB and Twitter feeds that were bitching about Obamaās high gas prices, socialism, gun grabs, death panels, the deficit, unemployment and our awful economy at one time are all now completely silent on all of those things. It is literally all just a bunch of convoluted stuff about Ferguson, Al Sharpton and interspersed with some pro-torture bullshit. I can listen to Limbaugh at noon, then see whatever it is he had as topic on his show that day pop up everywhere, and by the usual sock puppets by end-of-day. Itās sad and frightening.
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When Fat Pig Roger Ailes is in the ground, buried upside down at a crossroads with a stake through is his heart, it will be a much brighter day in America.
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We lost the Senate in large part because it was a midterm election where the majority party usually loses votes & the Dems basically had to gain/protect red state seats. McConnell was likely to win even if his opponent strongly said āsure, I voted for Obama twice!ā
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True. But.
Four Big Things Obama Achievedā¦
āFourā simply doesnāt have the same weightiness as āFiveā.
And āThreeā? Anybody can do three!
(I suspect a word-count-minimum at play.)
jw1
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Right with you. I am ashamed to call myself a democrat even though I will never vote for a republican
Yes. Their side voted and ours stayed home.
Iām with you
I love that last photo of the President. He is going to have so much fun these next two years vetoing bills and fucking with their heads. It is going to interesting to see if the republicans want to get things done now that they are in control. We shall see.
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I feel heās also going to focus on foreign policy initiatives that Ā®s canāt touch.
BHO has had to strategize the roll-out of almost every facet of his achievements due to RWNJ intransigence.
He knew what these next two years would entail for some time.
Then especially-- in the wake of the mid-terms outcome.
jw1
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