It amazes me how the Republicans with ONLY control of Congress, now really control this country

[DainBramaged]

We get crumbs, the Right gets bailouts. Compromise, bipartisanship, filibusters if we don't give them what they want, and this Administration just ignores the pain the middle class is going through. The Dow hits 12,000, and 10% of the population is out of work, many for years. Obama wants to increase H1B visas, all the promises of corporate reform have been diluted or shelved, the Republicans skillfully blocked most of his agenda in the House and especially the Senate, along with most of his appointments, and nothing was said to the American people about the harm the Right is doing to this country. The general population knows NOTHING of what is going on behind the scenes, NOTHING.

The MSM is compliant to the Right, and the Administration remains silent just plodding along, accepting crumbs from Boner and McConnell while the real important legislation is shelved. And for the most part, the voices of the bums, Christie in NJ, Bachmann in the House, McCain in the Senate, get the attention to divert the focus of America away from the real issues. Jobs and unemployment were not even mentioned in the STOU, all is well, nothing to see here folks, move along. And the Senate leadership put down a revolt to fix the filibuster rules JUST in case we lose in 2012. Just in case. What utter bullshit. That in and of itself should be an indicator of what our party has become.


It used to be you could figure out what was happening and work for better candidates next time. But now, what little real change we hoped for two years ago seems to have been fleeting, and our party embraces the corporations and the wealthy (from which they come). We on the left, the base, have been ignored and pretty much abandoned. But many here will say, what choice do we have, stick with Obama, we'll win in 2012 and make it right again.


I don't think so. We have turned a corner in America, and I don't think we're going back.

If you disagree, I fully understand, you may be way more comfortable and wealthier than I, and happy with the course this country is taking, but for the most part, the working stiff in America has been screwed. And we are worse off for it.


Have a nice day.

[spanone]

1. with control of only ONE HOUSE IN CONGRESS.

[ZombieHorde]

2. The Republicans are more powerful than the Democrats. Their strategies work better.

They know how to brand, they know how break the law and not get prosecuted, and they know how to stick together.

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[n2doc]

10. +1

The corporatist party. Most of the senate are members.

[krabigirl]

14. Yep.

[damntexdem]

18. True, it's just that the Repukes ruin the country.

[chemenger]

4. This is not news ... It's been that way since the Reagan years (at least)

and it will always be this way until the Democratic Party grows a spine.

[randr]

5. Part of the problem--continued right wing control of media

Following what many Obama supporters thought of as an important SOTU outlining a future direction for our nation, we have had a full day, so far, of pundification about fringe reactions to the speech by an intellectually challenged representative of a small district in a small state and a failed Governor from an even sparser populated state. Hardly any discussion of key elements of the speech.
It is no wonder the nation is suffering from mass misinformation psychosis.

[defendandprotect]

9. We lost even any myth of a free press long ago -- 11/22/63 -- however ...

we do have anti-trust laws on the books -- FDR used them -- Obama can use

them -- it's a matter of wanting to break up these monopoligies ... or not!!

Certainly the public has seen over two and three decades the destruction of

democracy via right wing control of media --

and 2000 was quite another example of that right wing corporate-press moving

own interests in pushing W into the White House -- Jon Ellis/Fox News -- and

computers!! Crystal balls that permitted them to RECALL Florida from Gore!!

Computers also have to go --

Most of all Americans have to unite in overturning rule by computer --

I'd say we should be questioning every election back to Nixon/Humphrey--!!

That's how long ago the computers have been with us hacking away at democracy --

Large computers used by MSM came in during mid-1960's ... voting computers late 1960's.

[defendandprotect]

6. It's been that way since at least '88 ... Dem majorities meaningless ....

something wrong in the equation? You bet!!

And Obama just did the same thing with his huge mandate -- and a pretty

much collapsed Repug Party --

Obama breathed new life into the Repugs with bipartisanship and cowtowing

to them -- setting up Liebermann as a king maker -- on and on!!

Result -- Democratic majority meaningless for two years!!

Something wrong here -- you bet!!

[reggie the dog]

13. and just what motive would a Democrat have in

breathing new life into the Republican party??? I would have rather had a Democratic President who wanted to help speed the disintegration of the Republican party....

[defendandprotect]

16. Good question ... tell me what the motivation for this was ....

Or why a Democratic administration would be "crowing" about it --- ???

Rahm .... crowing about preserving "private health care industry" ... business s/b grateful!Thursday, August 12, 2010


”In a Thursday interview, White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel argued that rather than recoiling against Obama, business leaders should be grateful for his support on at least a half-dozen counts: his advocacy of greater international trade and education reform open markets despite union skepticism; his rejection of calls from some quarters to nationalize banks during the financial meltdown; the rescue of the automobile industry; the fact that the overhaul of health care

preserved the private delivery system;

the fact that billions in the stimulus package benefited business with lucrative new contracts and that financial regulation reform will take away the uncertainty that existed with a broken, pre-crash regulatory apparatus.

http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=B2F85DDF-18...


and of course the h/c "deform" we actually got was a Republican plan -- while 76% of Americans

wanted single payer health care and numbers still growing!! Including Catholics, who not only

want single-payer government run health care, but they also want abortion to be included!!


And the new trade deals being pursued by Obama will again destroy jobs in America --


Whatever Obama's Wall Street/corporate motives, imo, it's clear we need a new candidate in 2012.

Someone like Bernie Sanders who could run on the Dem ticket -- and/or many other Dems from outside

of the party, like Tom Hayden.

Most of all we need a humanist in the White House -- not someone worried about pleasing the

corporate/Wall Street elites!

[WinkyDink]

7. When the President has no bedrock Democratic principles, it's easy-peasy for them.

[Ron Green]

8. In a prison with 95% of the inmates trying to improve themselves (or just do their own time,)

and 5% stirring up shit and causing problems everywhere, the 5% will prevail.

[Imagevision]

11. Since they have all this power WTF are they doing to create jobs?!

create jobs GD!

[rubberducky]

12. My heart aches to admit that you are right.

Money has totally corrupted our gov. I do not see this changing until our gov falls from the weight of corruption. Sadly it will take us all with it. We will have to work from the bottom up again. :cry: :cry: :cry:

[no_hypocrisy]

15. They seem powerful and maybe they are powerful because they control the money.

If republicans decide not to fund Health Care Reform or the annual budget for the Environmental Protection Agency, what can you do? You can't go to court and force the House to restore the missing money. This puts the Republican Leadership in the House in a position of power. At best, you ignore them and suffer inertia until the next round of congressional elections, or at worst, you have to negotiate with them and enact their warped policies.

[damntexdem]

17. Why be amazed? For the past two years, they did it with NO control in Congress or the Presidency.

They do it through the MSM and through big-money financing of astroturf.

[defendandprotect]

19. Exactly --