2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumPresident Obama Shocks Beltway by Refusing to be a Lame Duck
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Last year's election gave that new radical GOP the responsibility to govern. Now that they are in charge of the entire Congress, they can no longer get away with holding up legislation and saying 'no' to the president. They must present an alternative agenda, and they must go on the record about it by actually passing something.
But all they have been able to come up with so far is Keystone. With the economy doing well and the longest stretch of private sector job growth especially at the pace of late, the GOP's charges against Obama of being a "job killer" is no longer working, and the President vetoed their attempt to meddle in the administrative process with little to no backlash.
Their latest ploy to embarrass the administration, the amateur-hour Iran letter, has blown up in their faces.
In the mean time, President Obama has been reaping the benefits of his hard work finally beginning to pay off: the Affordable Care Act is now responsible for health insurance coverage of over 16 million Americans, the nation's largest banks have passed stress tests designed to determine if they can weather another economic storm in the order as bad or worse than the Great recession, vindicating the President on Wall Street reform, and as we previously talked about, the economy is strong again. President Obama is bringing together world powers to find a peaceful solution to Iran's nuclear ambitions, negotiating two progressive trade pacts - one transpacific and one transatlantic, and, you know, just being president.
And that is throwing Beltway into chaos. Being president while black is bad enough, but acting like it in your seventh year? Doing big things even though you can't run again? Sprinting to the finish instead of limping there head hung in shame to your radical political foes? And above all, overshadowing what the media should be able to concentrate on at the beginning of 2015, the presidential horse race to be decided at the end of 2016 (and thus ruining the media's hyperventilation sessions about Hillary and Jeb)?
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Lame duck my ass!
"Throwing Beltway into chaos.
Being president while black is bad enough, but acting like it in your seventh year?
Sprinting to the finish instead of limping there head hung in shame to your radical political foes?"
I am so proud of my President!
BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)and the MSM was all taken aback.
He has this terrible habit of knowing what he is doing.
sheshe2
(83,772 posts)They thought he would be hanging his head in shame! Lol!
"He has this terrible habit of knowing what he is doing."
Yes he does Beyond Geography!!!
Cha
(297,249 posts)NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)Hard to top what they have done already, but they will
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)He hates America! All the unconstitutional stuff like Obamacare and helping the poor and undocumented.
He HATES America!!!
It's all code for "he doesn't know his place" and "how dare he?" Never in my life have I seen such bile and outrage.
Like you, I love this man, this president, and he's not about to relax the last two years on the job.
Quite the opposite, now's the time to hold no punches and let it ALL hang out!
Amiright?
sheshe2
(83,772 posts)He is not relaxing, never has and never will.
It's all code for "he doesn't know his place" and "how dare he?" Never in my life have I seen such bile and outrage.
Yup, they think he is uppity. No racism in America. Not. None at all!
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)sheshe2
(83,772 posts)Just posted to Meh~ as well.
To hell with that....
I loved this part of my Op.
Being president while black is bad enough, but acting like it in your seventh year?
Sprinting to the finish instead of limping there head hung in shame to your radical political foes?"
He sprints, oh yes he does. Love my President.
sheshe2
(83,772 posts)So, you hate Obama. Nothing he does is good or right?
Ya know, I am sad for you....this is your take.
Meh. So, he'll keep on "compromising" with the Traitors/lunatics in the GOP. Whatever.
Since he pals around with traitors and lunatics, are you saying he is one as well? Seems to me you feel he has done absolutely nothing for anyone of us except the GOP. Please correct me if I am wrong.
erronis
(15,272 posts)sheshe2
(83,772 posts)Some of the haters....
joshcryer
(62,271 posts)Now it's Obama's terms. And the Republicans aren't liking it one bit because they actually have to compromise to Obama.
They don't have a veto-proof majority. They can't do anything that Obama won't want.
And they damn sure don't want to give Obama anything.
So it's a stalemate in the legislature with Obama doing everything he can from the executive branch.
trueblue2007
(17,219 posts)Meh, You don't like our President? What a bummer.
Haters gonna hate.
Baitball Blogger
(46,715 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)Poor pathetic droopy GOPers
Cha
(297,249 posts)sheshe2
(83,772 posts)he sure is enjoying it!
Cha!
Cha
(297,249 posts)enjoying it more than POTUS, she!
sheshe
sheshe2
(83,772 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)think are condescending phrases they just recycle the old ones. These called Pundant's are so out of touch with anything out side of D.C. it's borders on criminal.
riqster
(13,986 posts)Gotta love that!
raven mad
(4,940 posts)Still smiling - and have never, for one second, regretted the time and effort to elect the best President I've known - twice!!
AikenYankee
(135 posts)Couldn't agree more! This guy is good at this Presidency thing. A pity he can't run again. I don't think any of the current candidates measure up ... either party.
brer cat
(24,565 posts)just to watch the heads explode.
Welcome to DU, Aiken Yankee! Glad you joined us.
sheshe2
(83,772 posts)AikenYankee
(135 posts)Enjoy reading your posts.
brer cat
(24,565 posts)K&R
sheshe2
(83,772 posts)Lol~ wish he could run again as well!
Stellar
(5,644 posts)I love it!
sheshe2
(83,772 posts)I love it too.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,412 posts)that he didn't roll over and play dead (like a lot of would-be Democratic voters in the midterm) and just start signing all of the Republicans crazy c**p. They also didn't count on Democrats stopping up the drain with filibusters preventing most of their crazy c**p to get through to the President like they did during the previous 6 years.
oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)The president we want and need.
Aristus
(66,380 posts)Proud of our President!
sheshe2
(83,772 posts)Aristus
(66,380 posts)world wide wally
(21,743 posts)Cha
(297,249 posts)sheshe2
(83,772 posts)Cha
(297,249 posts)And, we're enjoying it while it is happening while those who have nothing but cheap pot shots are on the junk pile of history.
Great OP, she.. mahalo!
sheshe2
(83,772 posts)Thanks sweetie~ gotta haul my butt to work now. hugs~
Cha
(297,249 posts)Even when I am running late, I log on.
Cha
(297,249 posts)It's an addiction!
sheshe2
(83,772 posts)responses can be fleeting...I was warming up my car as we spoke. 1st day of spring here.... so cold. Sigh~
Cha
(297,249 posts)sheshe2
(83,772 posts)L0ve how they just popped up on my screen!!! Made me smile.
Cha
(297,249 posts)giving me the opening to use it. LOL
Dems to Win
(2,161 posts)Office holders are 'lame ducks' after their successor has been elected but not yet inaugurated.
Sorry to be picky, I understand you didn't write the article, but.... Obama is simply not a lame duck.
Of course we need a President for the next 2 years! These journalists are kinda whacked if they thought there was any possibility Obama would be doing anything different.
DFW
(54,387 posts)It never occurred to them that they might have missed both times.
Dems to Win
(2,161 posts)RKP5637
(67,108 posts)overcome is amazing!
Corey_Baker08
(2,157 posts)sheshe2
(83,772 posts)Corey_Baker08
(2,157 posts)nichomachus
(12,754 posts)"Lame duck" means simply that he's in his final period in office.
sheshe2
(83,772 posts)I wish, yet no I am not saying that.
treestar
(82,383 posts)should not be calling him that anyway - it only applies after election of a successor, No. 2016.
But he's kicking ass no matter how you look at it!
Hekate
(90,692 posts)jomin41
(559 posts)but the caravan moves on. History will be very kind to MY president!
sheshe2
(83,772 posts)Faux pas
(14,681 posts)It!
craigmatic
(4,510 posts)get a dem who follows his example.