Does anyone know which direction we are headed??

[kentuck]

As a liberal, I am confused. Are we going to end the present wars? Are we going to drill oil off our coasts? Are we going to put regulations on the Big Banks and Wall Street? Are we going to put a fair tax on the wealthy in this country? Are we going to give equal rights to all our citizens? Are we going to re-instate the Glass-Steagal Act? Are we going to help the folks that are losing their homes?

Does anyone know which direction we are headed?

[Ardent15]

1. None of that will happen under this Adminstration

Judging from what they've done so far, it would be a surprise if any of that happened under Obama (except for the oil-drilling).

[Xenotime]

45. Obama says for you to "tone it down"

[BlooInBloo]

2. Confirmed: We're all doomed.

[global1]

7. Yeah - And It's All Obama's Fault Because He's Got All The Cooperation In The World ......

with the Repugs and even his own party. And the MSM has given him a helping hand by supporting him. And gee - come on already - he's been President now for 14 months - he should have had all this done by now. I mean - after all - BushCo left him a bed of roses - anybody coming in after BushCo should have had a cakewalk. They could have just coasted and spent time on the golf course or at Camp David. I guess Obama just doesn't care cause he really hasn't accomplished anything since he took over. I sure do wish that McCain and Palin would have won - maybe they would have been better. Oh well - live and learn.

[galileoreloaded]

27. Accurate over simplification....... LOVE IT!!!!!! n/t

[Jamastiene]

3. I think the direction is to Hell

in a hand basket...same as the last 8 years. It does seem we are traveling faster now though. The stop is going to be painful at this speed. I am not looking forward to it.

[whatchamacallit]

4. Great question

I'm with you. As a democrat I've never been more confused. Ever.

[Oregone]

5. Who cares? A win is a win

Especially a Historic, FDR-like big fucking deal win!

[ScreamingMeemie]

21. I would recommend this post if I could.

[Go2Peace]

32. Yep it's all about "saving face" and duking it with Republicans. Ideals and values? Hah!

[DJ13]

6. Imagine what a sane Republican administration would do

I think that would get you an 80% accuracy to expectations for the next three years.

[TheLiberalNovelist]

11. ...

As if there was such a thing as a sane Republican administration.

[bigwillq]

12. Hello.

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[TheLiberalNovelist]

16. Thanks!

[DJ13]

15. You have to be old enough to remember such a thing

But once upon a time they did exist!

[TheLiberalNovelist]

18. There have been two republicans and two democrats in my life time.

The two republicans had 'Bush' in their name and the two democrats were Clinton and Obama.

Need I say more?

[DJ13]

25. Now thats what I call bad luck

Sorry!

[TheLiberalNovelist]

28. Thanks.

Be nice if two of those presidents weren't waging war in the name of religion.

I mean we've got H.W. claiming atheists aren't patriots or US citizens, and then W. claiming he was told to declare war on the Middle East by God himself.

I don't know about you, but to me that sounds like the kind of insanity I call 'evil.'

[Jim Sagle]

29. Actually there is, and it's in charge right now!

[GreenArrow]

49. Rim shot.

Good 'un!

[salin]

35. When was the last time we had one of those?

Ike?

[KG]

36. well, contextually - Nixon.

[salin]

46. 'Cept the paranoia thing ... and attempts to bypass the electoral process

by screwing with the primaries to attempt to shape/"pick" the democratic party's candidate in 1972....

[instantkarma]

8. counter-clockwise

.

[havocmom]

24. and around the drain

[Cresent City Kid]

9. I don't know, kentuck

I was hoping we would accomplish a lot of those things in the time between the 2008 election and the midterms. Most of that time has gone to healthcare, and no one is totally thrilled with the result.

[KILL THE WISE ONE]

10. as i see it

Are we going to end the present wars? leaving Iraq but no new war in Iran that Dick wanted
Are we going to drill oil off our coasts? allow exploration and let each states tourist industry fight it out with the oil men
Are we going to put regulations on the Big Banks and Wall Street? as best we can since the Senate 60 votes to beat a filibuster will grantee a week bill
Are we going to put a fair tax on the wealthy in this country? let bush tax cut expire but they did get medicare taxed
Are we going to give equal rights to all our citizens? small improvements after the election
Are we going to re-instate the Glass-Steagal Act? no
Are we going to help the folks that are losing their homes? very little, remember that the banks will not write down a loan when they can get full payment from your mortgage insurance.

disappointing but still better

[Newest Reality]

13. Let me get

Let me get out my compass and star charts ...

We are seeing the rap-up of the wile, whoopin' Capitalist party just as we begin to exhaust the World's easily attainable and cheap energy supplies. We're looking at some an austere cold front with a partly Fascist cloud cover later in the day. Chance of a major Depression coming in from the West is about 90%. Look for anything from tyrannical sprinkles to a reign of terror in the evening with fundamentalist thunderstorms with a chance of Theocracy in the early a.m., all you road warriors.

Our impact on the biosphere and the species that inhabit it is starting to take its toll and we get to watch the gradual collapse of eco-systems and mass extinctions. While some question our part in the process, various aspects of the Planet's climate are changing and we see ice masses melting while a thermal circuit of currents slows in the oceans.

There are way too many of us and a small percentage of that amount are holding amassing and holding onto what wealth, (financial and resources) remains.

We are going to see an both the bleeding dry of the masses and a massive abandoning of their needs, essential and otherwise. However, corporate media will continue to convince people that this is not happening, that things are not so bad, and that everything will get better ... soon!

Eventually, most of us will be the Eloi, (well not so tranquil or Sunshiney) and the Morlocks, who are used to thinking of us as livestock, will probably kill most of us off, reserving the rest for slave duties and choice cuts.

That was the abridged version. Have a great day and keep on smiling! It's a beautiful world we live in. Perfect in every way. Beautiful people everywhere. The way they SHOW they care.

[alfredo]

17. No, Pot will be legalized so we wil sit around all day

eating cool whip on wonder bread and watching Three Stooges movies.

[Newest Reality]

20. That's the alternative version!

Thanks for reminding me because I forgot because ah ... ummm ... well ... got any munchies, man? I'm starving and I can't get up.

[alfredo]

23. Marmite on German black bread, and a cold glass of milk would

be nice right now.

[alfredo]

14. Do I know? Yes

[Cleita]

19. Well, the Obama DLC, continuation of the Clintons administration, isn't

very liberal. At least they will throw us a few bones, instead of turning us into bones like the elitist, money wing of the GOP will. Since everyone who once was an FDR Democrat and everyone, who once was an Eisenhower Republican are turning into Independents, I think we might start seeing some new parties emerging. That's what my Tarot cards are pointing to.

[opihimoimoi]

22. If its NOT the GOP in Charge,,, we are heading UP....toward BETTER

Them PUBs gave us the HORRORS

[Foo Fighter]

26. I think this bumper sticker sums it up.

"Where are we going? And why are we in this handbasket?"

[obxhead]

30. I'm told it's multi dimensional chess we are watching

What I see is corporate bailouts, subsidies, mandates, and deregulation.

[EFerrari]

31. I watched Michael Eric Dyson go off about the lack of support

from the administration to the black community at a recent conference. He was furious and nearly in tears, finally. He was objecting as strongly as possible to the president saying that "the rising tide will lift all boats" and to depend on the stimulus and it got more heated from there. The "rising tide" thing did not go over and apparently (something I didn't know) the black community will get less access to stimulus funds because they go to the states and not to the cities. It just hurt to watch.

Wherever this is going, I am not liking it. I don't like seeing groups that worked hard to get the president elected be put off, ridiculed, minimized. Maybe that's the part that bothers me more than anything else.

[NuttyFluffers]

33. no idea, and what are we doing in this hand basket!?

::hide:

[WVRICK13]

34. Further To The Right

the same direction we have been heading for years. The rich will get richer and the rest of us will continue getting screwed.

[ThomWV]

37. It seems to me the larger question is will those things even be attempted, let alone done.

And in a way you misphrase your question. You ask "Are we going to ..." when in fact I thought by putting the Administration and Congress we now have in their seats "we" had done what "we" were supposed to do and now those we elected, the Democratic President, Congresspersons, and Senators, are supposed to do their part. So the question might better be phrased "Are our elected Officials going to .... and if not let's elect someone else".

[bahrbearian]

38. Where are we going and why are we in this basket?

[deutsey]

42. Sniff sniff

Is that fire and brimstone I smell?

[lib2DaBone]

39. We are going down to third world status.. a race to the bottom...

They have almost completed their mission.. a complete gutting of the middle class and reducing American workers to that of Cambodia...

[deutsey]

41. Well, that keeps us from getting all uppity and expecting things like livable wages,

jobs, real political representation, equal justice, affordable healthcare and education, promoting the general welfare as well as providing for the common defense not just for ourselves but our posterity, and other antiquated, unprofitable notions of a bygone era.

[Odin2005]

40. Corporate Feudalism.

National governments are loosing much of the practical power they once had, it's the corporations that run things now. if the Corporate Elite want the MSM to spew a lie that lie will be viewed as fact by most people within 3 weeks.

[Cal Carpenter]

43. Straight to Hell

The more things change, the more they say the same. The names and faces and wars are different but something about this old Clash song still rings a lot of bells today

If you can play on the fiddle
How's about a British jig and reel?
Speaking King's English in quotation
As railhead towns feel the steel mills rust water froze
In the generation
Clear as winter ice
This is your paradise

There ain't no need for ya
Go straight to hell boys

Y'wanna join in a chorus
Of the Amerasian blues?
When it's Christmas out in Ho Chi Minh City
Kiddie say papa papa papa papa-san take me home
See me got photo photo
Photograph of you
Mamma Mamma Mamma-san
Of you and Mamma Mamma Mamma-san
Lemme tell ya 'bout your blood bamboo kid.
It ain't Coca-Cola it's rice.

Straight to hell
Oh Papa-san
Please take me home
Oh Papa-san
Everybody they wanna go home
So Mamma-san says

You wanna play mind-crazed banjo
On the druggy-drag ragtime U.S.A.?
In Parkland International
Hah! Junkiedom U.S.A.
Where procaine proves the purest rock man groove
and rat poison
The volatile Molatov says-

PSSST...
HEY CHICO WE GOT A MESSAGE FOR YA...
VAMOS VAMOS MUCHACHO
FROM ALPHABET CITY ALL THE WAY A TO Z, DEAD, HEAD

Go straight to hell

Can you really cough it up loud and strong
The immigrants
They wanna sing all night long
It could be anywhere
Most likely could be any frontier
Any hemisphere
No man's land and there ain't no asylum here
King Solomon he never lived round here

Go straight to hell boys

[The Northerner]

44. I don't know but I'm worried about the future

[Robb]

47. Yes, no, yes, no, no, no, yes. And no. nt

[bemildred]

48. Maybe confusion is part of the strategy. nt

[GreenArrow]

50. "The lone and level sands stretch far away"

"I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away"

[ShamelessHussy]

51. we are on the third way course, steady as she goes

everything is going according to plan, nothing at all to worry about.

oh LOOK! a tea party rally, now there is something we should focus our collective attention on, or sarah in leather, or the clowns on teeVee and radio.

now that is what we should all be focused on...

[troubledamerican]

52. Chile, 1973, September 11

4/4/15. Stay away from the Capitol Dome.