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her readers, writing a campaign post-mortem on the explicit assumption that the US is a 'center-right' country - even though the United States was born out of a violent revolution. Gotta love how they always overlook that little fact. I am not saying that violent revolution is the way to go, please note; just saying that it is 100% false to claim or imply that the US is center-right. It is both historically and currently liberal.

Why would anyone who can think pay attention to anything she states?

I haven't listened to her prattling since she chided Clinton for "not recognizing" that god, himself, had sent dolphins to help Elias Gonzalez make it to America.

Jesus on toast, what a bunch of mush! And this specimen wrote speeches for the so called "Great Communicator"?????

The whole talking head circuit of right wing and right leaning talk shows are a bunch of has-beens and total failures. I mean, they "interview" Dennis Miller on Fox News fer Christ sake!

I'm going to scream. We The People are firmly on the left. Our government stubbornly persists in staying quite right of center.

Doesn't that make him a center-right politician, just like a good republican should be?

And wouldn't it make sense for the GOP to become center-righterer? (Yes, that's a word. Because I said so.)

and we are drifting to atheism because we
have no choice. Ain't politicians liars by definition?
When you investigate Christianity you realize that
we preachers are liars. Let's pay taxes and educate
our children.

compromise got thrown out the window when republicans spits at the face of the president eery chance they get. We will begin to see how the president plans to govern by his nominations.

But wouldn't that just make us "them"?

It's not "no compromise" .... it's "well, if you guys aren't gonna govern, we will."

I think President Obama needs to pay more heed to the people that elected him instead of back stabbing leaders in the Democratic party that want to throw them under the bus once they get our votes.

I just got through listening to Ed Rendell's comments on TV. He is encouraging President Obama to consult Business on this Fiscal Cliff. I think the President is best served to get the Labor Unions at the table too, so we want get raped.

Obama does need to start paying more attention to "We the people..." than to Wall Street and the "to big to fail" corporations that are failing this nation.

of 'compromise' willl be in the Cabinet appointees. And if Erskine Bowles is nominated for anything, I will scream to high heaven. He has been mentioned as a possibility.

Why can't he appoint someone for Treasury who has NOT worked at the Fed/Goldman Sachs? How about Krugman? How about any Economist who understands MONEY?

And btw, Obama has just as much a MANDATE as W did.

Tax the Rich until their eyes bleed!

Make him know and feel our opposition to being dragged back to compromise.

Don't just post here. Post to Obama.

asking him to tax the rich and I got a very nice email reply on fancy WH email paper!!!!

First response I ever got. I'm saving it!

And if anyone has a Repugnant Congresscritter or Senator, write them as well. In fact, I'm doing a 3-prong approach:

1. Email (which is the worst way imho), but I do it.

2. Phone them

3. Snail mail to the WH, but for the House and Senate, send to their HOME office. It gets there quicker and is taken more seriously by the locals who work in those offices. Print out your email and mail it. Sometimes I put glitter in it to get their attention. Or confetti. Or both, if I'm in a bad mood. I'm crafty.

I think I will.

I want Obama to ask GOP leaders whom they serve. Their citizens? or one citizen: Grover Norquist. Does his pledge override their pledge to the country? Does an oath to The Family trump their oath of office?

I have a sad suspicion that they may try some kind of "But midterms! Gotta be moderate for the midterms!" bullshit.... but no. That's a lie.

Because when they say "moderate" they mean "right wing" and the only thing that will help in the midterms is if we stick to those core liberal issues like Warren did.

Any pandering to the illusory "center" is asking to lose the house, and more.

Bravo!

but that the gop poisoned and polarized discourse so much that the public turns against issues IF CONNECTED WITH DEMS OR THE PRESIDENT.

The public option had 71% approval before the gop pissed all over it and Obama. Most of the ACA provisions have wide support. Likewise, most dem positions have wide support as long as you don't ask respondents to choose political sides on the issues.

And somehow, this white guy isn't panicking. I'm surrounded by variously tinted folks with great ideas, and I love those ppl. "Forward", "Move On", let's get on with it.

Hope I live long enough to see the result of this - a shrunken military and more social spending.

...compared to how they ignored VALUABLE advice at the beginning of last term.

History repeats itself if we dont learn from the mistakes of the past....

President Obama - pay attention to what Paul Krugman is saying here.....very important....