(E)ither Biden got played, or he lied. Either they didn’t have the votes in the first place, or they couldn’t hold them. In either case, there is nothing preventing the President, as the Commander in Chief, from suspending Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell discharges pending the Pentagon review if he’s sincere and that’s what he really wants. He could do it today.
Obama says liberals are hurting Democrats and depressing turnout when they criticize him. Well, he’s not up for reelection in November, and we’re doing plenty to support Democrats. We’ve raised nearly $40,000 for Russ Feingold in the past week alone.
But right before an election is the time that the public is supposed to express their concerns and hold their representatives accountable. That’s why we have elections in the first place. It’s the last chance people will have to push their elected officials on how they plan to vote on the Catfood Commission’s recommendations in December, which members of the commission say will include cuts in Social Security benefits. A bill that Obama plans to sign.
Anyone who tells people to be silent now is telling you to give up your last chance to fight to keep Congress from voting to reduce the deficit on the backs of senior citizens.
But Obama’s not talking about the fact that people are unhappy about his Catfood Commission plans. He says that people expect too much too soon, but that’s a straw man. That’s not what’s happening at all.
People understand when they’re being played. And they don’t like it.
Oct 05 2010
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She’s on O’Donnell now. The only reason I’m watchung
of Jane’s appearance on Morning Joe that has a some of the Obama supporter’s knickers in a knot. They were taking her words out of context and also having a fit over an article by Peter Daou. Daou was critical of Obama and his record on civil liberties and the White House criticism of liberal bloggers, specifically calling out V.P. Biden and WH Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.
Obama is hurting democrats.
If he’s worried about turnout in November he can turn out a landslide anytime he wants to.
If he’s worried about turnout in November then he’ll think about starting to earn it, and think about forgetting batsh*t crazy bipartisanship with batsh*t crazy republicans who will never vote Democratic, and instead think hard about trying bipartisanship with and accommodation of the left and the progressives who tipped the balance in his favor in 2008, if he wants Democrats to retain their congressional majority.