Eddie Vale, AFL-CIO, Is the Obama Admin slowly committing political suicide for 2012?

[thomhartmann]

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[jotsy]

1. More efficient governance, less strategical maneuvering, please.

[aquart]

2. I remember a song called "Which side are you on?"

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iAIM02kv0g>

[indepat]

3. No, not slowly committing political suicide, but committing at a maniacal rate

:cry:

[WillyT]

4. K & R !!! - Hey Thom !!!

:bounce::hi::bounce:

:kick:

[Bullet1987]

5. Progressives are getting really tired of the Democratic leadership

[jillan]

6. Hi Thom!!

[bvar22]

7. Slowly?

AFAIC, the icing was on the betrayal cake here:

The DLC New Team

(Screen Capped from the DLC Website)

[NBachers]

16. I guess Hilda Solis isn't one of the "team players."

[davidwparker]

18. +1

Put that way, it rather looks like those surrounding J. Caesar as he was making his way to the Senate.

(If you go with the idea of Obama not being one of them, too.)

[bvar22]

19. "I am a New Democrat."...Barack Obama.

"I am a Free Trader"...Barack Obama

[liberation]

22. I take "New Democrat" is the more marketing friendly term of "Old Republican"

[global1]

8. Dump Rahm!!!!!!!........nt

[jwirr]

9. If they are committing suicide then I can think of only one reason why

they would - the insiders know that the collapse is imminent and they do not want to be leading the charge when it happens. That scares me more than anythings else.

[Dinger]

10. Excellent, And Don't Forget Teacher's Unions

arne hates 'em, and I don't see that Obama feels any differently.

[Enthusiast]

13. How about 'ALL' unions? nt

[Dinger]

21. That Works :) (nt)

[OhioChick]

11. Rec. n/t

[avaistheone1]

12. K&R

[cate94]

14. K & R !!!!!

[Overseas]

15. K&R. //nt

[MissDeeds]

17. Naw, he can always run as a republican

He's been much more concerned with placating them than Democrats.

K&R

[liberation]

20. Marketing 101:

When you have a captive market, it makes more sense to invest your efforts in capturing new ones than to focus on the ones you already have by default.


What, you thought Obama's 08 campaign won all those marketing awards just for the color scheme of their posters? ;-)

[UrbScotty]

23. More anti-Obama hysteria. HE'S PRESIDENT - GET OVER IT!!!

[me b zola]

24. K&R

[dflprincess]

25. It's not committing suicide, it's doing what it was hired to do

put the final touches on the destruction of the middle and working classes by "reforming" education & Social Security in ways no admitted Republican could get away with.

Obama said he wasn't worried about being a one term president and that's probably true because whether he serves 4 years or 8 he knows he'll be well taken care of after he leaves office.

[olegramps]

26. Really, what the hell is wrong with this administration? Why would they alienate labor?

Are they really out of it or was I the one that was being stupid in believing that Obama really stood for meaningful changes.

[Jefferson23]

27. 5 stars for Eddie Vale! n/t