My suggestion for a more accurate Obama 2012 bumper sticker

[GaYellowDawg]

[mahina]

1. What would you have done?

I'm curious.

[demwing]

5. I would have threatened to veto anything other than a clean raise of the cap

and then gone on TV, explained THE FUCK out of my position, called Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi in and said DO THIS! I don't care HOW, just DO IT!

And I'd get Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Howard Dean, and every other surrogate I could think of to toe the line and stand firm against the Tea Bag bullshit.

Finally, I would have shook avery hand, twisted every arm, and rattled every skeleton in every DC closet to get what America needed.

[GaYellowDawg]

6. I would never have been in this situation in the first place.

If I'd been elected in 2008, I would have taken my 70% approval rating to the Conservadems and told them that I was going to retain Howard Dean to primary their miserable asses in 2010 with my bully pulpit and the full weight of the National Democratic Party if they didn't fall in line. Then I would have told the nation that 2000-2008 was a grand experiment on the economic and foreign policies of the far right, and it was an abject failure. Then my motto would have been "Compromise with failure results in failure" and steamrollered the Republican Party. I would have removed the 65 and over requirement from Medicare and required an income-adjusted input from every American. I would have closed Guantanamo and immediately moved to get every soldier out of Iraq ASAP. I would have directed the SEC to bring up every single Wall Street bastard on charges possible, and I would have charged Bush, Cheney, and every member of the Bush cabinet with war crimes. I would have attacked the Republicans on so many fronts that they wouldn't know where to begin to defend themselves.

[dreamnightwind]

9. Great response

And, except for about 20%, this country was ready for such changes, in fact we were expecting them. Not aggressively pushing for a new political reality allowed the Repubs and the Tea Party corporate shells to create their own, insanely wrong, version of reality. The right was entirely discredited, in ruins, in 2009. This administration's stubborn "centrism" (really corporatism since the center is where the people say it is) enabled a very different outcome than the one we voted for in '08.

[jeff47]

8. Ignore the debt limit.

Congress has passed two contradictory laws. The debt limit and the budget.

Honoring the budget is illegal because of the debt limit.
Honoring the debt limit is illegal because of the budget.

In previous instances where Congress managed to pass contradictory laws, the executive branch picked one to enforce until Congress resolved the conflict.

So, I'd have ignored the limit until Congress either raised the limit or passed a smaller budget.

[Dragonfli]

2. Honest bumper sticker at least /nt

[RC]

3. Truth in advertising.

Buckle up, it's going to be a rough ride.

I didn't vote for a Moderate Conservative.

[styersc]

4. I'm disappointed how it turned out and how it was carried out.

But I figure we can mope, weep, grumble or organize and be prepared for the hearings of the "Super Committee".

This process has beeh given a lot of power and the Whitehouse is now aware that anything they want to do will be carried by a gnat's ass margin. Progressives had better get in on Power Brokering with the little leverage we have or we'll be reduced to an angry fringe.

Clever Bumpersticker expressing real frustration. Sure, I understand. But, tonight we grouse, tomorrow we organize!!!!

[Dragonfli]

7. Makes sense, hell we have 80% of the people with us, Obama and his Republican party only Represent

20%

They may go against what they were all elected to do for the enrichment of their friends,
but by God they should be deafened by the cry of the majority!
We should organize and make it plain at least that whoever they are working for, it is most assuredly not ther American people!