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So much for the screeners doing their job. Har.
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I don’t think he was blindsided. I think he was prepared for the questions and handled them quite well. As far as the change that many of us voted for, how can one implement change, when people like John Boner, Bitch McConnell, and his party filibuster each and everything that comes up?
Panama John McCain just did it yesterday with “don’t ask, don’t tell.” When he was running for office, he said that he’d repeal it, now he’s against it.
And then there’s the teabaggers, who should be reminded that tea parties are for little girls with imaginary friends. They should be ignored for they know nothing of the US Constitution, our laws or how government works. They are just puppets for Fox Propaganda, Dick Armey (and his wife, Vagina Navey), the Koch brothers, and other corporatists. They don’t want to pay taxes, yet they don’t want cuts in Medicare or Social Security, or other programs that they benefit from.
If I was up against this bunch of obstructionists and idiots, personally, I would throw in the towel, and leave the country, as these corporations, and their lackeys have ruined this country.
The Fall of the House of Usher/Obama
DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country ; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was – but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit. I say insufferable ; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because poetic, sentiment, with which the mind usually receives even the sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible.
I looked upon the scene before me – upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain – upon the bleak walls – upon the vacant eye-like windows – upon a few rank sedges – and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees – with an utter depression of soul which I can compare to no earthly sensation more properly than to the after-dream of the reveller upon opium – the bitter lapse into everyday life – the hideous dropping off of the veil.
#2,
I would break it out of the box and SHOW the world what is going on.
I would send a report card on the ADDON BILLS these folks are making and killing things with.
I would SHOW the bills I sent in, and show them being DUMPED, EATEN, TRASHED…
I would go full public display.
Has there been a filibuster since Obama has come into office? I admit the GOB has threatened them but has there actually been one?
GOP
GigG: the rules now state that all they have to do is threaten…no more requirement to actually “filibuster” physically.
Great 3 clips from the audience. My response if I were president.
#1 To the Wall Street guy.
“Basically what Stewart said. Your “industry” has the US economy by the short hairs. The Cheney administration let you fucktards run amok and I need to jam that stick up your ass as well”
#2 The unemployment Republican: My staff has confirmed you’re an unemployed puke who now comes crawling to me for help. Can’t afford payments or that wife? Too bad. Wait in line
#3 Black CFO : I hear you hun, but my magic wand can only do so much. Turns out this is my first time as president and found that the half the Congress is campaigning and the other half is legislating. You seem to have a job, no credit card debt and reasonably smart. Did you just want to tell the world you’re a CFO ? You could have just put that on Facebook.
At least they weren’t pulled out and shot…
#5, Gig,
Has there been a filibuster since Obama has come into office? I admit the GOB has threatened them but has there actually been one?
Yes. I think it is around 12 so far.
I think more than a few of us wouldn’t mind seeing the Republicans do an actual filibuster or five. Let the country know why nothing is happening in Congress because of why they are talking their faces off instead of discussing legislation. Let the country know why one in six of every Federal Judges is vacant because the Republicans won’t allow a vote on the nominees.
It is time to let the public see what is really happening in the Senate.
ECA: “I would SHOW the bills I sent in, and show them being DUMPED, EATEN, TRASHED…”
And here are the bills POTUS has sent to congress:
1) … NOTHING!!!
He really fooled you fools. You actually think this blowhard has submitted bills to congress! Authoring bills is work; you can’t write a bill while swinging a golf club or shooting hoops. Silly people.
I am so glad some of the words are bleeped out. I know what they are, but I would be scarred for life if I actually had to hear them be pronounced explicitly.
I am also really glad Jon Stewart chooses to use those words even knowing that they will be bleeped out. The content would be at least 72% less funny and 57% less relevant without those bleeped out words, which I do not get to hear pronounced explicitly.
I would like to have seen Obama’s response to the douchbag from Wallstreet. Classic: “I’ve got mine, screw you, and I’m upset you don’t give me more.”
Typical corporate welfare queen. The PUKES, LIEbertTARDS, and NeoCons are all in lock step with him.
Dallas–another perfect response.
People afraid to use credit cards are just as dumb as people who get in over their heads on them. I pay my balance off every month and still get to enjoy regular cash back and bonuses.
>>So much for the screeners doing their job. Har.
Eight years of GW Bush made John forget what representative democracy sounds like.
Not all presidents are so afraid of hard questions that they put dissenters in “free speech” cages.
Not all candidates only speak to one news outlet that only throws them very slow softballs.
I still find it amazing how many partisan morons there are that cling to the faith that their side is different.
Bunch of dumbasses
http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j54/russkeller/Politics/puppetmaster_large2-1.jpg
#5, filibusters and their threats are generally calculated by cloture votes. There have been more cloture votes in the past year and a half than ever in history.
Basically if Ted Kennedy hadn’t died, a lot more “change” would be happening.
Why worry about screening the audience when your own party is out to kill you?
“Walter Mondale, Mr. Carter’s vice president, told The New Yorker this week that anxious and angry voters in the late 1970s “just turned against us —same as with Obama.” As the polls turned against his administration, Mr. Mondale recalled that Mr. Carter “began to lose confidence in his ability to move the public.” Democrats on Capitol Hill are now saying this is happening to Mr. Obama. … He’s the great earnest bore at the dinner party,” wrote Michael Wolff, a contributor to Vanity Fair. “He’s cold; he’s prickly; he’s uncomfortable; he’s not funny; and he’s getting awfully tedious. He thinks it’s all about him.” … Chris Matthews asked his guests if Democrats up for re-election will “run away from President O’Carter.”
And this is just the beginning.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704129204575505822147816104.html
As I’ve said, if I didn’t know better I would say Obama is a plant of the Republican Party. He has done more good for the GOP than anyone in recent history.
Wow!
You are all so slow to wake up,
Anyone that buys into the idea that a single man can change this nation and NOT be an autocrat while doing it is ASLEEP.
Wake the fuck up.
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#12 “It is time to let the public see what is really happening in the Senate.”
I guess you do. This must be how they do it.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) says she believes she must pursue public policies “in keeping with the values” of Jesus Christ, “The Word made Flesh.”
#23, Mextli,
In case you didn’t know, Nancy Pelosi does not work in or for the Senate.
Looked staged. Obama wins, and his friend the fund manager loses nothing. CNBC is under a lot of pressure from GE: http://bit.ly/cunz0f
…at least the audience is not screened like with W…at least this is a REALITY show!
#18. Breetai- “I still find it amazing how many partisan morons there are that cling to the faith that their side is different. ”
Change morons to douche-bags….fixed!
At one time the GOP couldn’t even threaten to filibuster.
The Dems passed a lot of bills sight unseen and completely unread that make most Americans want to puke.
They passed a lot of bills and agreed to deals that would have embarrassed the Tammany Hall crowd.
That promise to post bills on line and let people look at them before they were voted on. That turned out to be a lie.
If any Dems want to admit in public that the bills being pushed are so bleeping bad the Dems can’t even get the independent or even one Republican in the Senate to vote for it no matter what they offer them go with it.
What did most Americans get for 800,000,000,000 in dept? What is that? Something like 40,000 for every man women and child in the country. The only honest answer is whatever we got we certainly didn’t get our money’s worth.
#24 You are obviously correct and I stand corrected. However, the same principal applies in both houses.
deowll, you just spoke the unvarnished truth. This is the elephant in the room the nutjob dem’s here in this blog choose to ignore.
This is exactly why I turned against Obama. Starting no more than 2 weeks after he began in office, we the people were blindsided by his deceit, arrogance, and hypocrisy. I’m still waiting for the bills to be published online first and the promised debates on CSPAN.
So it’s no wonder the nutjob dem’s are going to be blindsided come November.
>> 18 Breetai said, on September 22nd, 2010 at 10:40 am
>> I still find it amazing how many partisan morons there are that cling to the faith that their side is different.
I find it even more amazing that some people have such horrid political judgment that they can’t discern any difference between the two parties in our two-party system.
Ok, listen up you nutjob dems!
A new sheriff is coming to town, and this is what he is going to do.
“Jobs:
– Stop job-killing tax hikes
– Allow small businesses to take a tax deduction equal to 20 percent of their income
– Require congressional approval for any new federal regulation that would add to the deficit
– Repeal small business mandates in the new health care law.
Cutting Spending:
– Repeal and Replace health care
– Roll back non-discretionary spending to 2008 levels before TARP and stimulus (will save $100 billion in first year alone)
– Establish strict budget caps to limit federal spending going forward
– Cancel all future TARP payments and reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
Reforming Congress:
– Will require that every bill have a citation of constitutional authority
– Give members at least 3 days to read bills before a vote
Defense:
– Provide resources to troops
– Fund missile defense
– Enforce sanctions in Iran”
Yes!!