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The real battle begins with the one most all of us know is coming.
Impeachment.
Itâs unjust.
It isnât right.
It isnât fair.
It is an abuse of the Constitution.
But thanks to the Grumpy Old Party, it will happen.
It wonât succeed, nor should it.
But it will happen.
So much for âepic battles.â
Letâs get serious.
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TPM:
âItâs like waving a red flag in front of a bull to say, âIf you guys donât do what I want, Iâm going to do it on my own,ââ McConnell said Wednesday in Louisville, declaring that if Obama follows though, âI think it poisons the wellâ for legislative action.
Right, Mitch. Because the well is so sparking clean after all the shit Republicans have dumped in it for the past 6 years.
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Why not give Mitch and John something thatâs problematic to deal with, and will test their relationship with tea party membership early in the next congress. Letâs see how they deal with the dynamics of governing and demographic changes.
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The Republican wrecking crew has been given another chance after being swept out for their overreach during the Bush years. People need to become familiar with Thomas Frankâs book " The Wrecking Crew" to see what we are in for in 2016 if they control all three government branches again.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Wrecking-Crew-Conservatives-Government/dp/0805090908
Unbelievable that Democrats run such a lousy fight and turned away from a President who has done such a great job, even the conservative Forbes Magazine wrote an article titled :
âObama Outperforms Reagan On Jobs, Growth And Investing.â
Hell, if Obama was a Republican, Republicans would be trying to get him on Mount Rushmore or at least rename a major airport after him. Oâ Reilly and others of his ilk wouldâve had at least a dozen books out worshiping him by now.
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President Obama needs to go BIG and BOLD on his executive action on immigration reform. He needs to pick a fight with Republicans on this subject to cement the Latino voter with Democrats for 2016.
Ideas and CONTRASTS win election.
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The GOPers have been defecating in the well for years. It is beyond poisoned.
The GOPers did their best to prevent anything happening in Washington for 6 years.
Their newest members, faces moist from regular teabagging, daily question the nationality and religious convictions of President Obama.
They have consciously hamstrung regulatory agencies such as the FCC and the FEC and the Surgeon General and other positions by refusing to allow nominees.
So why all the concern about the quality of the water once they have secured the Senate?
No, I do not think President Obama is going to take strategic advice from the Turtle, especially one based in an appeal to something which does not exist in DC anymore, by the GOPers choice.
Instead the President should press forward and hard on immigration, giving the finger to Todd and all the other useless idiots in the media pronouncing immigration dead, using maximal legal executive authority to do what he said he would do (and should never have delayed in a vain effort to save Pryorâs sorry ass).
Force the issue, hard, now, in the lame duck and watch the newly-found GOPer unity fracture before they even find their seats.
Restore the confidence of Latino/a voters after paying the price for breaking a promise. Permanently cement that confidence by blowing up the GOPers unity, prompting the base and the nutters to make fools of themselves and the more sober leaders of the party before the rest of the country.
And stock up on veto pens.
Fuck comity. Fuck getting along. They have proven 1000 times over they are not interested in that or in governance.
We elected the president to govern and that is exactly what I expect him to do, mostly by EO and the bully pulpit.
ANYTHING THE GOPers PASS THROUGH BOTH CHAMBERS IS NOT WORTH SIGNING.
They just won a crushing victory on no substance at all and are already pushing corporate tax cuts to the top of the agenda even though no one voted for that priority. This is the game they always play.
Letâs not be their partners this time.
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Time to circle the wagons and protect the Dreamers. Anyone who knows one of these vital young Hispanic Americans understands why.
But McConnell and his modern day Know Nothings understand also that the aging, prejudiced nativists who perennially put them into office will demand their reward for this election, and these innocent children will be their victims.
When someoneâs hopes and dreams are only fulfilled by shattering the hopes and dreams of these young Americans who deserve every break, it is a sad statement about their humanity and their priorities.
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In terms of historical mid-terms, this one isnât at all comparably crushing, it is pretty much on the average. It ALWAYS seems crushing to the losing party, but it is the standard, not the exception, and we need to remember that when we get despondent. It just wasnât that big of a shift, unless you choose to spoin it that way. But the Citizens United hungry media will spin it that way. Luke Russert is a good example. His coronation of Joni Ernst as âkingmakerâ ignores the fact that none of these Republicans who won by small percentages would have been elected without a Citizens United intervention.
Iâve now seen and contributed to the absolute silencing of gloatfests on the blogs I post to, by simply asking those revelers if they honestly think any of these close races would have been won without that easy money.
Inevitably, their gloating turns to crickets as they ponder how to spoin the truth they refuse to admit aloud.
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Wave the red frag Mr. President. The bull will charge and charge and charge. This shit show will will rip them apart. Remember Pete Wilson in California. He single-handedly destroyed the Republican party in CA. trying to implement their same bullshit ideas.
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ââŚThey want to intimidate the President into inactionâŚâ
What happened to cutting my taxes and creating jobs?
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The Senator from SC has the âVaporsâ:
âMy sense is this is a dangerous miscalculation by the president,â he said, arguing that reform should happen legislatively, not by executive action"
He clearly does not understand English. The President said if the legislature acts he will comply, if not he will lead.
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As country stars feel free to be racist-lite, Rethugs donât want the well theyâve been shitting in for 7 years poisonedâŚ
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Do unto Republicans as they have done unto you Mr President.
jw1
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âItâs like waving a red flag in front of a bull to say, âIf you guys donât do what I want, Iâm going to do it on my own,ââ McConnell said Wednesday
Actually, itâs more like one person offering a starving person a meal, and having a bull rush up and stomp all over both of them.
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Besides Tea Party problems, letâs see how they deal with problems that um mean life and death to thousands. Problems like dealing with ISIS and Syria ( and going in with boots on the ground isnât a solution). Letâs see them deal with negotiating with kooks who have nothing to lose when they behead innocents like ISIS. Letâs see how Mitch and John handle people who slaughter their own like they do in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan. Throw in an Ebola outbreak- which they now own, too, right?- and a few natural disasters like hurricanes, floods and wildfires, and then letâs see how important another Benghazi hearing is, or a debt limit fight or an impeachment battle. Obama, on the other hand, has been seasoned in all of the above and now that he has nothing to lose, he can do as his heart and mind tells him to do. He is in the home stretch and can focus on doing what he feels is right.
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The RepiguKKKlan âway forwardâ is as predictable as anything in the world. Since they have absolutely NO programs to further the progress of this republic, they will immediately begin their impotent and vacuous howls against the ACA (red meat for their odious and ignorant âbaseâ), gin up any number of red herring âinvestigationsâ; and begin to stir culture war issues (God/Gays/Guns/Gynecology) to divert attention away from their total lack of anything positive for the nation___all the while funneling monies to the already obscenely rich while throwing crumbs at the working poor and middle class under the ruse of âjobs creationââŚAND if and when the nation gets restless, they will begin to blame all their coming failures and damage to this republic and its economy on President Obama as the BaggerFools scream âIn----peeeeeeach!â They CANNOT govern; they have nothing to offer but the same bile and warmed over spittle.
In other words___SameShitDifferentDay!
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Maybe if a Obama was a White Republican.
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ââThe influential Hispanic community, long clamoring for deportation relief, likely will rally to Obamaâs side and attack the GOP for opposing himââ
The GOP received record support from the Latin community 2 days ago. More Hispanics voted GOP than in any previous election. If the GOPâers they voted for kick their families out of the country they will not have just reason to blame ObamaâŚbut in time they will do just that.
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Thatâs who the Hispanics are voting for now. Its getting very hard to feel sorry for them.
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