Where the hell are the priorities of this government? Why are we handing out free taxpayer money to banks and insurance companies and bailing out billionaires? Why is Obama balking on his stimulus package so that it is mutating into another giant giveaway to rich people and slim pickings to the majority of Americans that voted the son of a bitch into office? Please do remember that I did not vote for him because he represented change ... I didn't buy that line in any fashion. As my ex friend Tony has challenged me, my vote was apparently racist because I simply voted for Obama as he was the first viable black candidate for the office. I had my doubts about him based on his record his first two years in the Senate, and it was topped off with his stupid collusion (with other Democrats and the Republican party) and vote for FISA.
I am trying to be restrained in my views until the man actually takes office, but I just can't help but continue to have my doubts based on what I am reading on a daily basis about his changing positions on the AMERICANS' stimulus package, and his caving in to the demands of a minority party that has absolutely zero power at this point in time -- all in the alleged name of being bipartisan. Fuck that, damn it. You cannot be bipartisan with a party of people that despise everything you stand for, and lie with impunity about anything and everything.
From TPM:
But Obama seems to be telegraphing that to a significant degree the fundamental structure of the legislation is being built around accommodating the concerns of Republicans -- members of a political party that are about as unpopular and weak as you can get at the moment. And that sounds a lot like he's negotiating with himself, something that will embolden opposition and invite Republicans to up the ante even further.
If Bush could claim a mandate with his stinking stingy, barely majority vote that he claims got him in office, then Obama, who creamed McCain, and the Republican machine, should declare open season on the Republicans, just for the hell of it!
If he cannot see the set up to fail that he is being so obviously prepped for, then he deserves the bitterness that will eventually be directed in his way by the very people that elected him as president.
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Sure makes ya wonder. As you say, the repugs with a bare majority in the senate got Bush everything he wanted. Dems, who've had majorities for two years, & now have a president & big majorities in congress & about as much of a "mandate" as they could hope for, still think the Repugs are running the show. They need to tell Barack, "You be no drama, that's cool, but it's time for us to do some ass kickin' on behalf of the American people."
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