So, let me get this straight. The tenor of your posts are that the Obama administration is an utter trainwreck. Yet:
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[li]You leave off (what I see as) the top priority of the Obama administration (war related items)[/li][li]The economy was not only already in the shitter when he took over, but there’s almost no effect he could have had on it anyway[/li][li]No one could have done any better at Copenhagen on AGW[/li][li]Your HCR evaluation is based on supposition (i.e., “none of the cuts will actually be enacted”) when it’s not ignoring the CBO scoring[/li][/ul]
Congratulations are in order to you for spectactularly bad (i.e., nearly content-free) posts. Might I chalk it up to one of the “usual suspects”?
You quoted the entire sentence, but apparently failed to read the entire sentence. And ya know, there used to be a time when politicians worked to the common good. Being in the opposition doesn’t mean having to be obstructionist assholes.
Yes we had a drone attack in Yemen. Yes that is bombing Yemen. And of course we said that we killed tons of significant Al Qeada higher ups and no civilians. Thats what we always say.
http://www.janes.com/aerospace/military/news/jdw/jdw021108_1_n.shtml Is Janes a militaristic right wing enough site for you?
But they actually can’t. Even when the Democrats can break filibusters, the Republicans can delay things in many ways, and have been doing so. For example, the Republicans required three cloture votes on extending unemployment benefits, for a bill that passed 98-0. They used the defense budget, which passed 88-0 to try to delay the healthcare debate. Judd Gregg helpfully released a memo to his colleagues outlining all the methods he could come up with to delay the healthcare vote, and anything else. And since all 60 Democrats are needed to invoke cloture if the Republicans demand, they need to wheel in the ailing Robert Byrd for each of these votes, as his colleagues across the aisle hint at praying for his death.
Are you really using an article from 2002 as proof of something President Obama ordered?
Are you trying to tell us that something that happened in 2002 WASN’T Obama’s fault?? Or, perhaps you are contending that gonzo never actually reads the web pages he uses in his drive by cites…??
-XT
A year ago, I said the Republicans needed to acknowlege they had been defeated and rethink their platform. But they have spectacularly failed to do so. They’re not functioning as an opposition party, except in the most literal sense. A true opposition party would be offering alternatives - all the Republicans are doing is saying “yes” whenever the Democrats say “no” and “no” when they say “yes”.
What’s their platform? “We’re not the Democrats”? How does this distinguish the Republicans from the Libertarians or the Communists? They’re not Democrats either. The Republicans need to start working on what they are.
The Republican strategy is simple. Tear down the Democrats, regardless of the cost to the nation. Then hope that the voters decide the Democrats are unelectable and present themselves as the only viable option.
And if it works (which it may) what then? They’ve got a strategy for getting elected but nothing ready for governing.
What’s that got to do with Obama personally bombing Yemen in 2002?? 
-XT
Doesn’t the president take control of the country the day he is sworn in?
I know the U.S. president may well be the most difficult one in the world, but he knew he was going to be president and that there were two wars and the U.S. economy wasn’t doing that great in November 08. He knew it. His supporters knew it.
If he didn’t want to take FULL ABSOLUTE responsibility for what happened in those wars the next day after being sworn in, he shouldn’t have accepted the job. I don’t mean he would solve the war the end of the week, but he knew the wars existed.
By the way, this applies to all elected presidents in the world.
To get back to the OP, who are you referring to? The top posts in Obama’s economics team, as far as I can tell would be the Secretary of the Treasury (Tim Geithner), the Chairman of the Federal Reserve (Ben Bernanke), the Chair of the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board (Paul Volcker), the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors (Christina Romer), the Director of the National Economic Council (Lawrence Summers), and perhaps the Chief Economist and Staff Director for the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board (Austan Goolsbee). As far as I can tell, none have worked for Goldman, and Summers seems to be the only one who came directly from the private sector at all (maybe Volcker, I can’t tell from Wikipediahow long he worked for J. Rothschild, Wolfensohn & Co.). So, who from Goldman is, in any way, “in charge of the economy and the recovery”?
I think about this classic piece from The Onion quite often.
Dear Og, I don’t envy him his position. But I’m certainly glad he’s the one holding it.
Sure, but that doesn’t mean that the situation he inherited from the previous guy is his fault. It just means that he’s been tasked with cleaning that mess up.
The majority are “whackjobs”? Really?
IMHO, the election was decided by the sudden collapse of the economy, after years of disintegration under the “leadership” of the party you believe is the only sane one. :rolleyes: McCain revealing his poor decisionmaking skills with the Palin fiasco confirmed the result, but with only a few months delay in the collapse she’d have hurt him no more than Quayle hurt Bush 1. It was a close-run thing in the polls up to that point.
Example:
Nothing there at all about acting in the national interest. Their own health-care proposal? A pamphlet that doesn’t evn have numbers in it. It’s only about making the Dems seem as bad as they are.
Yet, to Airman and Hump and many others, that’s a good thing. Why is that?
Oh, yes, Airman? The number of Senators in the Dem caucus is 59, in reality. You did ask.
Jesus Christ was a bleeding heart liberal so he couldn’t possibly help a conservative.Remember the Pharisee’s, they were letter of the law conservatives?
Why should I pay any attention to your complaints when you can’t even spell “word” correctly?
Regards,
Shodan
Didn’t Obama also say things would get worse before they got better? I remember he was criticised for saying that, they said he was depressing the people (at least that seemed to be the meaning to me). There are too many people who want Obama to fail. United we stand divided we fall!
This hasn’t been dragged out in awhile so it’s about time:
Originally a parody ad by Someone who really deserves credit it and I can’t remember:
Jesus said “render unto Caesar”.
Jesus wants to raise your taxes.
Jesus said “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone”.
Jesus is soft on crime.
Jesus. Wrong on taxes, wrong on crime, wrong for America!