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The Sequester! Brought to you by these guys... (Original Post) Playinghardball Mar 2013 OP
The Tortoise needs to be in there also Angry Dragon Mar 2013 #1
... 2naSalit Mar 2013 #2
+1,000 freshwest Mar 2013 #6
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Care to elaborate? 2naSalit Mar 2013 #19
Because the GOP took America hostage over the debt ceiling. Duh! JaneyVee Mar 2013 #21
Okay rrneck Mar 2013 #3
Elizabeth Warren would be great! upi402 Mar 2013 #29
I agree. rrneck Mar 2013 #30
Yeah, something on DU blaming the Republicans! treestar Mar 2013 #4
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The BCA isn't the sequestration. JaneyVee Mar 2013 #23
It's All Part Of The Game Plan To Make Government Totally Dysfunctional... KharmaTrain Mar 2013 #5
We are in crisis. We basically don't have a functional government anymore. Cleita Mar 2013 #7
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And what does my opinion have to do with Obama? Cleita Mar 2013 #16
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Bad me for not stating the obvious. I didn't know I was being published Cleita Mar 2013 #24
You forgot Phil Gramm, who orchestrated the whole thing Warpy Mar 2013 #8
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So you, for one, do believe the President was born in Hawaii? Democracyinkind Mar 2013 #22
Were you paying attention over the last couple of years? NYC_SKP Mar 2013 #25
"Why are we in these situations, the fiscal cliff and the sequestration?" Adsos Letter Mar 2013 #26
I'm feelin' the beat! NYC_SKP Mar 2013 #27
"Johnny Boehner took an axe,... lastlib Mar 2013 #11
You beat me to it! Lady Freedom Returns Mar 2013 #20
It's really simple. SCVDem Mar 2013 #13
They just texshelters Mar 2013 #14
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The media is all over that truth upi402 Mar 2013 #28
Obama did not have to sign the bill unless he wanted it too... TheProgressive Mar 2013 #31
Economic Sanctions. donheld Mar 2013 #32
Um... Fire Walk With Me Mar 2013 #33
He can't change everything overnight. Zax2me Mar 2013 #34
They have zero interest in actually changing anything benefitting the banks and wall street Fire Walk With Me Mar 2013 #35

2naSalit

(86,031 posts)
2. ...
Sat Mar 2, 2013, 02:51 PM
Mar 2013

"To punish you for voting for this guy."... what I've been saying since the election. Not only should an image of mItch be there, you could also add the Kochheads.

Response to 2naSalit (Reply #2)

2naSalit

(86,031 posts)
19. Care to elaborate?
Sat Mar 2, 2013, 03:58 PM
Mar 2013

I'm just not understanding what you're saying...

With some details it might be more understandable.

rrneck

(17,671 posts)
3. Okay
Sat Mar 2, 2013, 02:52 PM
Mar 2013

Then I'll vote for this guy:



Or this woman:



Or this woman:



Hell, I'd vote for this guy if he had a "D" after his name.



If we set out to find a bad one he'd be better than the best they could do.

upi402

(16,854 posts)
29. Elizabeth Warren would be great!
Sat Mar 2, 2013, 08:28 PM
Mar 2013

I don't think she'd sell us out to corporate interests at least.

And the guy gettin' his ass chewed knows how it feels too.

Response to treestar (Reply #4)

KharmaTrain

(31,706 posts)
5. It's All Part Of The Game Plan To Make Government Totally Dysfunctional...
Sat Mar 2, 2013, 02:58 PM
Mar 2013

...the rushpublican mantra is "the problem of government IS government"...then they do all they can to prove that point...enriching themselves and their deep pocket puppetmasters in the process. Their hopes are the more the government sucks the more people will want to destroy the government...privatize and outsource everything and have a "pay-as-you-go" society.

Looks like the tactic de jour is creating a crisis every month or so that so absorbs the beltway chattering class that there's little time to pass any other of the President's agenda. Everything will be slow walked and stonewalled at every turn. They don't need filibusters, just more "deadlines" and cliffs and attempting to blackmail the economy. The hope is that in two years you'll be so fatigued with this shit you'll be turned off of politics and stay home...low turnout and voter apathy and frustration are the rushpublicans only hope to win...

Cleita

(75,480 posts)
7. We are in crisis. We basically don't have a functional government anymore.
Sat Mar 2, 2013, 03:33 PM
Mar 2013

We need to find a way to fix this and kick those neo-cons and tea baggers out somehow. Impeachment? Indictment for crimes of treason? Groups civil lawsuits? I mean using any means to get them to pack their bags. Don't forget to put Kevin McCarthy up there with those other three.

I wish we had enough evidence on all of them to arrest them at their home base before they come back to Washington after this weekend of infamy.

Response to Cleita (Reply #7)

Cleita

(75,480 posts)
16. And what does my opinion have to do with Obama?
Sat Mar 2, 2013, 03:50 PM
Mar 2013

I'm referring to Congress, which is what this is about. We need to do something with Congress and you can't deny they are dysfunctional and many of them corrupt. We have some great members of Congress, however, the corrupt ones are making our government dysfunctional.

Response to Cleita (Reply #16)

Cleita

(75,480 posts)
24. Bad me for not stating the obvious. I didn't know I was being published
Sat Mar 2, 2013, 04:11 PM
Mar 2013

in the NYT.

btw Welcome to DU. I'm not always this cantankerous.

Warpy

(110,900 posts)
8. You forgot Phil Gramm, who orchestrated the whole thing
Sat Mar 2, 2013, 03:40 PM
Mar 2013

including naming it "sequestration," something he knew the average voter wouldn't understand.

Unfortunately, the average voter is going to understand rather quickly that the government isn't functioning the way it should and if he owns a business, his business will start to do poorly.

Call it what you want to, Phil, austerity is austerity and you can't starve people into prosperity.

Response to Playinghardball (Original post)

Democracyinkind

(4,015 posts)
22. So you, for one, do believe the President was born in Hawaii?
Sat Mar 2, 2013, 04:03 PM
Mar 2013

There's still hope for you, young Padavan.

Come over to our side once you've wised up, contrary to the cliché, we have cookies too.

 

NYC_SKP

(68,644 posts)
25. Were you paying attention over the last couple of years?
Sat Mar 2, 2013, 05:14 PM
Mar 2013

Do you realize the background that has led to our current state of affairs?

Please, tell me what your "truth" is....

Why are we in these situations, the fiscal cliff and the sequestration?

Go ahead.

Adsos Letter

(19,459 posts)
26. "Why are we in these situations, the fiscal cliff and the sequestration?"
Sat Mar 2, 2013, 07:09 PM
Mar 2013

Great rap lyric!

"Hey, yo
Why are we in this situation,
the fiscal cliff and the sequestration?"

lastlib

(22,978 posts)
11. "Johnny Boehner took an axe,...
Sat Mar 2, 2013, 03:46 PM
Mar 2013

...and gave the budget forty whacks;
And when he saw what he had done,
He gave the country forty-one!"

Lady Freedom Returns

(14,120 posts)
20. You beat me to it!
Sat Mar 2, 2013, 03:59 PM
Mar 2013

When I saw the axe in the pic, that was the rhyme I thought of, and was trying to find a way to adapt it when I saw this! Good one!

 

SCVDem

(5,103 posts)
13. It's really simple.
Sat Mar 2, 2013, 03:47 PM
Mar 2013

Who writes the tax codes and who has lobbyists and paid for politicians that rig the game?

Game over.

Time to pay the piper!

texshelters

(1,979 posts)
14. They just
Sat Mar 2, 2013, 03:47 PM
Mar 2013

want all of the lower classes to suffer, regardless who is president. But, they do have a special hatred of Obama, certainly.

PTxS

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Fire Walk With Me

(38,893 posts)
35. They have zero interest in actually changing anything benefitting the banks and wall street
Sun Mar 3, 2013, 02:29 AM
Mar 2013

which is why banks and wall street continue for years to go unregulated and continuously bailed out ($83 billion last year, same $$$ as they're slashing social programs for the poor under the scam "sequester", which means it's actually "austerity" as seen in Greece, Portugal, Spain, Italy...).

This is what happens when you stand up and peacefully petition your government for Change regarding income inequality and bank/wall street regulation. Please let this sink in:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2439087

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