Obama Casts Republicans as Party Of The Rich

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama stepped up criticism of Republicans on Saturday for blocking jobless aid, hammering home a Democratic election year attack line that casts the opposition as the party of the rich.

"Too often, the Republican leadership in the United States Senate chooses to filibuster our recovery and obstruct our progress. And that has very real consequences," Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address.

Senate Republicans have blocked at least three Democratic initiatives to extend unemployment insurance, citing the need to curb government spending amid a record budget deficit.

"Think about what these stalling tactics mean for the millions of Americans who've lost their jobs since the recession began. Over the past several weeks, more than two million of them have seen their unemployment insurance expire," the president said.




Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2010/07/17/news/news-us-obama-republicans.html?_r=1&ref=news

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After the financial crisis where we privatized profits and solialized losses, I am sick of the Welfare State for the Rich, their party -- the GOP, and their network -- Fox News.

Exactly.

criminally insane, shameless, monstrous destroyers of our home planet earth and whatever harmony it had and what precious little it has left; Precious little harmony that has not yet been sucked dry and fowled; A ruthless plundering of our resources, for a fist full of dollars.

This is the unbelievable crap for which the phrase "you can't make this shit up" was coined

And BO does not get any Kudos for trying to stop that calumny; with the lame cover "we are looking forward', his lamest and weakest moment and perhaps the lamest and weakest moment of any president in our history; Instead of claiming a right to assassinate anyone in the world he deems a traitor; And a right to spy on us; And upholding and reinstating Homeland Security, sunseted for good reason because it was fascist; He should have been working to string these treasonous bastards up at high noon in the town sqare;

For high treason under Constitutional and RICO law; Including Scalia, Roberts and Thomas who are an integral part of this "take no prisoners" cabal that illegally corproratised our government; Self identified thugs we have continually let walk, by our own MSM induced stupidity; Made even stupider by that same complicit corporate "MSM"; Thieves all, we have made glutinously rich and insanely powerful, against our own best interests and even survival;

Thieves who have been allowed, by our own complicit government made up of these same thugs, calling themselves Pugs dinos and bludogs, sold what they did not own; Then declared war on the middle and poor, homeless and defenseless classes to keep from being prosecuted for their astronomical crimes against this country; Causing false falg catastrophe after catastrophe to keep us off balance and our minds occupied far away from their theft.

Instead BO has opened the treasury vaults to these monstrous criminals, to steal every last shekel from our safety nets; For war and corporate welfare for themselves; The treasury that was stocked by us and once belonged to us, before it was plundered; And by law still does, even that which was stolen; And then using our own police forces to keep us at bay and compliant.

Now he is working on our Social Security net, which that same corporate government that we have lost, is in debt to us for trillions of dollars, already stolen by these same gluttonous bloodsuckers with worthless IOU's, now, to be covered by illegal, backroom "legislation", from a government that would make a lawless Mafia blush and blanch at its abject ruthlessness to the poor and elderly.

And Rustic Cheney Bots

So does this mean he'll finally stop calling for bipartisanship on every single bill? Let's hope so.

Senator Reid and Congresswoman Pelosi had (and still have) the Majority position in Congress. The Minority party Republicans should have been kicked into the ditch and prevented from being obstructionists. Our boot heel should have been on the Republican throat a long time ago to stop this nonsense of the Minority Party controlling the agenda.

I voted for Democrats to take power and use it. It just burns me to see the news media and even some in our own party apologize to Republicans for doing what we were elected to do.

The words one uses to describe sinister behavior are important, and his comments come across as remarkably weak considering the circumstances. The overall effect of his address grossly understates the magnitude of the damage the Republicans have done, and continue to do. He continues to come across as a Caspar Milquetoast, IMO. There are effective ways to use words to inflict maximum damage, and he doesn't appear to have a clue how to do that - nor is he inclined to do it. We could really use someone along the lines of Al Grayson... a word-master who knows that you don't bring a knife to a gun fight. To me this BO address inflicts zero damage. In fact, it ultimately strengthens the opposition because it is so passionless, predictable, and ignorable. It takes our best ammunition and weakens it to the point where it just blends in with the background noise.

Help for the unemployed, those without health insurance?

Not from the Repukes, who only stand for extending the Bush tax cuts and repealing the estate tax for the very wealthiest. Period.

I don't think so. Screw "bipartisanship."

now especially since SCOTUS has welcomed the cash inflow into the system as perfectly fine. Anymore, politicians just basically buy the office they want. And the MSM spews as propaganda whatever they are paid to do.

The question is, how do we control their greed and rapaciousness?

Nothing's ever enough for these people. That's not what they're taught. They're taught "The world should and WILL kiss YOUR ass. NOT ONE INCH do you give to anyone 'lower' than you. NOT ONE INCH. Never a 'sorry'. Never a concession."

As long as you have these asskissers who think "Yeah, I'm gonna be part of THAT someday", and worship these people and that life like Olympus, shit's never going to change.

They need to be stepped on. Cut DOWN a couple of notches.

I'd be thinking about shoring up those gates a bit about now.

I mean, if this were any OTHER country and the rich pulled the shit they do on their people like they do with us . . . yeah, I'd be thinking "armed guards, flying from building to building via helicopter, etc".

But America isn't like that. We're like docile mice people. "Errrrrrr . . . yeah, I hate what's going on, but am I really willing to get arrested for stopping it?"

You gotta wonder if, at the top of that mountain of wealth, they all got a pool going on to see how far they can push us . . . how many rights they're going to take away, how flat or negative they can keep our wages, how unaccessible they can make this "American Dream" before we finally say "ENOUGH".

Someone on the high end of that pool is making bank.

I don't think the wealthy want the shit to completely hit the fan. They just want to see how caked it can get.

(when they give any thought to the rest of us) that we are happy with our stations in life. I heard one up-and-coming rich dude say that one time as we watched a baggage handler at an airport.

It's the few who are worried about status -- and wealth ---

and the very few who will do violence to gain it!

How many of us get up every morning with thoughts of how to gain control over

others?

How to scam and swindle for a living?

I have never experienced in my dreams or real life, thoughts of gaining power over others. Your question made me think of how good I have it for never allowing my life sink to that level.

"But America isn't like that. We're like docile mice people. "Errrrrrr . . . yeah, I hate what's going on, but am I really willing to get arrested for stopping it?""

None of us can afford to get arrested, and we can't seem to get our shit together enough for massive, massive protests where we won't get arrested.
I understand your frustration.

... the average American has been brainwashed to defend the possibility of wealth even if it means not addressing the reality of their current situation.

America is just like a big trailer park, every poor soul there thinks they are going to win the lotto just about any day now... thus they should not make much fuss for their will soon join the ranks of the ultra wealthy. Meanwhile, the same idiots are too monumentally uneducated and stupid to compute the probability of them ever winning the lottery as they are too busy working long hours for shit pay cleaning the houses of the ultra wealthy. But any day now, that golden ticket is gonna come through... just you watch!

We're a country of sheep, funny about all that crooning about "home of the brave land of the free" though... ironic in a way. But as they say, there is no worse slave than the one who thinks he or she is free...

PS to add: this by the way is not a new development at all.

Folks don't want to give up on the dubious prospect that someday they'll strike it big, as unlikely as it is. And while they cling onto the "American Dream" with both hands, they slide down the slippery slope of destitution. Its time to admit the "American Dream" is a lie. A fake bill of goods that isn't even worth the hopes it's woven from.

"As long as you have these asskissers who think "Yeah, I'm gonna be part of THAT someday", and worship these people and that life like Olympus, shit's never going to change."

You bring to mind my older brother, age 57, who was once as liberal as it gets to the point where he and his young wife in the early 70's literally got back to the land. They were running away from everything Republican about life, or so they thought. Cut to the mid-90's. My brother has not had a successful career as a musician or craftsman, yet he and his wife are still doing fine because his wife had long been getting trust money from her grandfather who had owned and operated a small chain of lumber yards. They had been using the money to slowly build their home on a beautiful piece of land.

Then his wife's parent's died about three weeks apart leaving her with a little over a million dollars in inheritance. This did not really change her, she is still liberal to the bone, but it was her money and not my brother's. This, as you can imagine, caused some tension in their marriage.

All of the sudden my brother wants to be well-off, too. He sees his wife who, while not a spend-thrift, is able to not work and pursue hobbies she had put off, take friends and family to lunches and what not. He becomes an asshole over-night, and ended up in not just real estate but the worst kind of real estate in that he got involved with a company that, as far as I could tell, was little more than a Ponzi scheme, and this made my brother even crazier for riches. He started quoting things to me on the phone that he had picked up at some hack seminar on getting rich. Everything about my brother just did a fucking 180, complete with asshole hair style, Gold Lexus SUV to drive rich people around to look at 10 million dollar ranches, books on their coffee table about making millions in real estate, the power of positive thinking. Voted for Bush, twice. His old friends deserted him because he was not the affable, sardonic hippy they had grown up with. My brother used to just make us laugh and laugh with his observations on the absurdity of life. I worried about their marriage because his wife was very alarmed about who he was becoming.

He stayed with real estate for a few years and made enough money to keep them afloat as in the meantime his wife's fortune had taken a huge hit in the market crash. But the contract on a mega-millions ranch was still elusive, and having to deal with shit-heel after shit-heel rich couple was taking its toll on him. Tired of getting screwed by the companies he worked for he tried running his own real estate company but that lasted not even a year. I think he is officially done with real estate.

Somewhere in all of this he discovered a love for Spanish. He began studying on his own, then went back to college to study it. He is now doing a 2 month Spanish immersion deal in Mexico which will finish the requirements for his Bachelor's degree. He graduates in August and begins the Master's program. He thinks he might teach bilingual class in public school or teach at the college level.

I've started seeing signs of the brother I used to know, but he is still needing to finally find himself and see himself as a success, but I don't think it will be defined by his bank statement.

learned some lessons. I think the very last point that you brought up about seeing himself as a success is the most telling. People now define their success and sometimes even their being by how much money they make. Sad.

That really is the way they are, you just have to have the time to gradually peel back the rhetoric till the arguments are at core. Especially if the argument is during some alcohol ingestion. They get really ugly and tell you what they really think due to the "truth serum" stripping away their benign bumper-sticker talking points.

that is what you'll get. Maybe try something other than capitalism?

You can't control anyone else's greed. You can, however, limit what people are able to do as they attempt to sate their greed, as with antitrust laws, anti fraud laws, etc, And, you can require them to give back a little of what they use up by taxing them.

You can. Whether politicians will do that--and whether we will hold them accountable, however, is another story.

On a more serious note, I honestly believe that the only reason the wealthy went along with the New Deal reforms for so long was fear of the alternative. Remember there was a cold war with an avowedly revolutionary Marxist opponent, there had been decades of bloody labor wars in the US, and there was a real fear of a revolution in this country. Better to compromise with the Democrats than face a worker's state.

In short, the only thing that will control the wealthy is fear of their own demise

the elites aren't stupid . . . !!

Show me a party that works for the poor and I will show you a grossly underfunded party.

No one works for the poor.

I expect that some wealthy people will be on Fox very soon to correct this characterization.
It will go something like;

"The GOP supports FREEDOM, and to suggest otherwise is an outrage. . . . .9/11....
our founding fathers...... Jesus....Support the Troops...Death tax...."

God Bless the guns! :-)

-while going on about "not begrudging banskters their bonuses" (comparing them to baseball players who hadn't won a World Series) -or going before the Chamber of Commerce (of all groups) and letting it be known that he was happy enough to see an entire high school's teachers fired in some lame effort to curry favor.

:thumbsup:

:cry:

Hard to explain away, isn't it?

He needs to prioritize the people, not the corporations...or did the Citizens United v. FEC case confuse the two in his mind?

n/t

Guess that happened by accident?

Maybe when Obama wasn't looking?

Oh gee, what a fucking revelation! You mean the GOP isn't for the little guy? I thought they were the only true xtian patriots.

Full Disclosure: I am a democrat but my views tend toward the Blue Dog side on many issues.

Define rich. It seems to me that the uber rich, from Barbara Strisand to George Soros are not only democrats but liberal democrats. Same seems to be true with the very wealthy of Manhattan and San Francisco. Likewise the wealthy immigrants.

It seems to me it is the small business owner, the just barely rich, that tend toward the republican party.

However, the real point is that elecction season is upon us and we begin to see the outline of Obama's election plan...

that support more leftist causes really ARE more self made than the ones who inherit either money or status? Not always of course, but most of the time.

The actors, musicians, artists, etc. who actually get lucky enough to "make it" big time don't forget where they come from. Plus, there's an empathy element to art that the OTHER rich TOTALLY lack. It's the difference in starting from the "bottom" (the lowest rung on the management ladder at 50k a year)with an MBA from a prestigious school bought with Diddy's money and starting from the REAL bottom with absolutely NOTHING other than talent and then having some luck.

When you have enough money to buy any conceivable material toy and you move on to buying corporations and governments.

When you have enough money that you think you can buy the governorship of the world's 7th largest economy for yourself:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meg_Whitman

Most small business owners really think the repugs are on their side. I'd say most repug politicians could care less about small business owners--now big corporate donors and the wealthy, yes. What the small business owners hope for is that "trickle down" deregulation and money. That's why, as today's economy takes a downward spiral, it would seem more advantageous to promote small business over giant "too big to fail" corporations. Small businesses (at least decent ones) have shown to take care of their employees and are more active in their communities.

But when you're done playing politics do you think you could push for a public option and the EFCA?


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Oh, and they've been winning.

am I rich compared to them?

a conflict that one-sided is more properly called "slaughter"

just plain assholes?

or traitors?

IOW, yes.

Not all Republicans are rich. Some are merely stupid

"There are two types of Republicans: Billionaires and Suckers."

The suckers are welcome to vote for them, by their measure.

SUCKERS!

thanks. :)

... it's willful ignorance. They know that they don't know shit, and they are glad to not know shit, and don't intend to learn shit.

It's part of the anti-intellectual, anti-education, anti-reason thread that runs through our history.

It's a quote from someone (not sure who). Tried to give some facts to relatives from Arizona about disinformation regarding amount of violence in the state and it was totally rejected. They do not care about "facts". Fear and "don't confuse the issue with facts" rule the day.

Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts. by Bernard Baruch
http://www.quotes-museum.com/quote/6148

Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the Senator from NY, also said this.

-90% jimmy

the difference being that the Democrats will toss poor people more crumbs than the Republicans, because the Republicans want it ALL for the rich.

Here's an example of the Obama administration working hard to ship your job overseas, or else have a foreigner come here and take your job from you:

http://www.economicpopulist.org/content/administration-double-speak-jobs-exports

Just think, in 2-1/2 short years, we can have Sarah Palin doing this to us!

e paying them.

So I'm not getting excited about this.

out for big business, don't care about "real americans" the list can go on ......

So is Bill Gates.

However, no public health insurance option or Medicare at 55 says otherwise.

This is the way I see it.

When Potus took office, he did have visions of being able to cultivate a civil relationship with the rethugs. He did not realize how sociopathic they really are. It was beyond his comprehension that they would let the country fail, in order to re-gain power. His mistake.

Secondly, he had to put out the fires, with stimulus package and Tarp. Had to compromise because of the urgency of the situations.

The fires have been put out temporarily, and he hopefully has concluded there is nothing he can do to gain even civility from rethugs.

Election season is here, and he is attacking, using the correct memes, rethugs are for the rich, and they broke the country, and do you want them back? This is good.

Potus has done amazing things his first 2 years, but did lose opportunities, i.e. Public Option.

The question (to me) is this: What will he be after elections? Assuming we will maintain majorities, and I believe we will, and it won't be as bad for Dems as media says, will Potus shift into attack mode?

I think NOT publicly, as he has done so far. I think he will return to his personna of "being above it all" but work behind the scenes. He will become publicly aggressive as 2012 approaches.

That is his style, and his personality. I wish he would attack all the time, or at least assign attack dogs who are out there every day, attempting to write a narrative and a good one would be his message at the moment.

As angry as I sometimes get at him and Dem Congress, they have accomplished a helluva lot and when it comes down to it:

I (we) worked hard to get him elected. He is the 3rd Dem president in roughly 40 years. I am going to stick with him, and I refuse to allow myself to fall into the wingnut's media narrative.

So I say often and to all dittoheads I enncounter, President Obama and our Democratic Congress are awesome! They are doing great work, and saved the country from disaster caused by the cruel Republicans.

Great job President Obamba, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi! Great job, keep up the good work.

That is what I say, and it snaps rethugs' necks when I do. Where does anyone hear that the Dems did or are doing a good job? Even for one topic, such as student loans, which they did? No where that I know of.

I think the best way we can help them and us, is to say to someone every day, the Dems are doing a great job. No one else is saying it, and the negative message stream needs to be interrupted. It is time to kick it into gear, and have Potus' back.

As you all know, this election is very important. Go President Obama, good speach yesterday.

In a situation such as that which you describe, and I do believe that this is what is going on, what the President is trying to do WON'T WORK if we, each individual, does not get strong and active ***AND AND AND*** become willing to withhold his/her vote!!!

I don't mean going around and beating other people over the head with BULLSHIT like "I'm not going to vote Democratic, much less for President Obama, when the time comes {because I'm more principled than you are}."

I mean "the system" MUST know that Y.O.U. will decide how you will vote because you are a F.R.E.E. individual who can and will, ***if*** you so decide, either withhold your vote or vote for someone else.

The whole thing that you describe above C.A.N.N.O.T. work without this fact.

Glad to have another poster here who "gets" it.

And you all croon about "getting it"?

LOL

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This is EXCELLENT -- exactly what all the Democrats need to get "on message" in repeating over and over again.

sometimes the president has to be partisan and as blatently stupid as the repubs are this should have been the argument he should've been making all along.

Many of the top people on Wall St. and certainly in the entertainment industry who are Democrats and filthy rich.

How many rich democrats believe the poor and middle class are for thier use and nothing more. Some movie stars, Sen. Nelson, and a handful of others.

and I remember when Little Boots was getting his "give more to the wealthy tax" enacted, that a group of wealthy, mostly in the entertainment field, fought to keep him from passing it. They were on television, stating that they don't mind paying their fair share of taxes-they didn't want the obscene tax break.

There's nothing wrong with being wealthy, as long as you've earned it without destroying others in the process. As long as you realize, as a wealthy individual, there are responsibilities that come with wealth. But, I don't see that very often--there are a lot of sociopaths out there in the real world.

I have always told people that I don't have enough money to be a republican.

There are other reasons as well but that always stands.

Of course they are though along with the rich they depend on unwitting fools who aren't rich but continually vote against their best interest while supporting the gilded class.

The problem is that too many democrats now support the rich as well. Some are two faced about it some aren't but they are there and they are enablers - and that includes our president.

Surely we are not the party of the working poor, or poor, or middle class.. Are we?

Like adequate food, the ability to marry who we want, a decent educational system, and the ability to see a doctor, just for starters.

That got him no where fast.

Thanks for the thread, Elmore Furth.:thumbsup:

YOUR RICH TOOO !!!!

Made almost 5.5 million last year on books alone.

Good luck selling that political approach to the American voters.

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That argument is clearly shortsighted.

Do you really think someone who makes that kind of cash can understand what

the average person goes through weekly / monthly? and or really care for that matter?

doesn't mean you can't empathize with those who are not.

he championed programs for the workers. I suggest watching Michael Moore's documentary, Capitalism, a Love Story. There are some people that don't know about FDR--when there was a big worker's strike, the old robber barons, sent in the Pinkertons to quash it--FDR sent the troops to protect the strikers from the cops and Pinkertons.

You can be wealthy and champion the cause for workers and against poverty. I remember the story about the husband and wife who were retiring and had built up a very profitable business--they gave all their employees a very tidy amount of cash. They said that it was their employees who helped make the business successful, so they split the profits with their employees. With wealth, come greater responsibility.

that FDR was branded a "traitor to his class" by the rich and elite of the country. In fact, his own mother refused to pay her Social Security taxes when the program was instituted. When the program's administrator came to tell Roosevelt this, he sighed heavily and told the administrator that he would pay them--but that the administrator was under no circumstances allowed to tell Sara Roosevelt that her son was bailing her out.

After reading about him as much as I have, I'd credit Eleanor mostly for Franklin's metamorphosis--she took him to the poorest parts of the country and showed him how the other half lives.

I believe it started in Chicago to help the poor, especially poor immigrants. They provided legal services, taught english to adults, taught children, and influenced labor reforms and safety reforms.

everyone else. The four horsemen of the non-rich apocalypse. Republicans are more honest about their intentions to fuck over the non-rich.

Republicans say things like "drill baby drill" and democrats recoil in horror.

Democrats say things like "it is clear that our energy demands are paramount to our security as a nation. Therefore we must invest in more efficient strategies for realizing our energy targets with clear legislative priorities."

And centrists cheer. Then they open up the entire eastern seaboard to drilling, causing a gold rush as oil companies rush to complete unregulated deep water jobs in the gulf of Mexico so they can move their gear over to the coast of Atlantic City and Alaskan wilderness.

We have a two party monopoly government that only sees rich people.

Really not that fucking hard to manage tense contractions vs. possessive pronouns is it?

And that is the problem. There are many people who fall into the latter category. That is why Obama thinks he must work with them. He won't tell them the truth that they will never become rich -- unless they win the lottery!

Subordinates and Congresscritters should be jamming the morning shows and screaming that Republicans are blocking UI benefits to high heavens. Yell it loud enough and it'll make it through the media's GOP filter.

Politicians and Media....Quit beating the mule and help load the wagon....

If there is a "left" in this country I would like to know. Because sure as fuck is hard to see it in either branch of the government, maybe the left is heavily stacked in a little known 4th branch of the government which happens to be invisible?

Dems need to get back to being a party of the people. All this unlimited corporate money the 5 republican supreme court justices have now allowed into our elections is just going to make it worse. :(

... given that the total number of real populist among our elected officials in both houses is in the single digit percentile fraction.

I don't think people have made the connection that the most over represented sector of the population, in our three branches of the government, is the smallest social minority in our nation: millionaires. In fact most of our representatives in Congress and the vast majority of senators are millionaires, yet... that represents less than 4% of our population at most. Meaning, that basically 95% of the population is represented by those less than 10% (and that is a very very very very "generous" figure) of populist representatives and senators.

It is without any real honest question a case of "taxation without representation." And that is further compounded by the fact that most tax revenues now come from individual income taxes and not corporate taxes, and yet corporation have the largest level of control over the direction of federal and state policies.

It should not be surprising, since this country was founded by rich people, for rich people, so it makes sense it is a country of the rich people. It has always been that way, pretending this is somehow a "fluke" is naive to the extreme.


Here is a hint: if the common people want to be represented, they should stop electing millionaires. But then again the system is rigged, so as long as people keep playing by the "rules" they will keep playing inside a system stacked against them. Same as it ever was...

I do know the wealthiest people in my city voted for Obama. I also know that a few blocks away, on the porch of the crappiest, run-down hovel you're likely to see around here, a few good ol' boys are having a Le Page (Maine's repuke nominee for gov) get together, complete with flags and swags. :scared:

Republicans have fooled the common folk into believing that they have a chance in hell of actually achieving the American Dream, and the common folk aren't clever enough or well-read enough to realize they're being used. For that reason alone I'd be embarrassed to be a repuke.

which is to say, lots of people who have bought into this twisted "a few other people have made it, so naturally I'll be next" version of the American Dream.

"It is a "dream" because you have to be asleep to believe it" ;-)

a guy that went from little to one of the most famous comedians in the world.

Carlin spoke the truth and kept speaking the truth, even when he had the dough. Was he supposed to change his stripes when he finally made money? Was he supposed to turn into another greedy, sociopathic repug just because he made money?

He went from little to the most famous in the world... he was an example of the American dream. Yet he basically said it doesn't exist.

will Obama get the Dems to be a true party of the people and not just the Republican-lite Dems act like so often these days. The Dems are not doubt better then Repubs, but there is potential for them to be so much better - and I think people still truly want, and many need, some real change.

Let the electioneering begin.

If we progressives are to make any changes or have any influence on elections coming down the pike, we have to add these words in our posts as and within the rubric of the Republican party; To let the world and real democrats (Democrats still sailing under the flag of Democratic principles and ideals) know just who these folks are who are destroying our party and our government.

The all inclusive Repulic0n party of public0ns, buedogs, dlc'rs and dinos.

Always including the republic0ns, Dinos, DLC and Bluedogs, as one entity, which is exactly what they and it are and is. That tack has already worked on the DLC, with many of its members disassociating themselves from that group, if only to get themselves reelected, thus making it a pariah, not to be perceived as associated with. The more we associate them as one party and one entity, the better the chance we have to elect progressive Democrats and Democrats with true Democratic ideals and let the world know these are not true democrats with democratic principles and ideals and save our party now, by design, confused with the pug party.

The ditinction must be made clear.

And yes I realize not all on DU are progressives.

what i don't understand are republicans who are not rich. take a look at some of the teabaggers and those who attended McCain rallies. they don't look rich. my best friend is a lesbian and a republican. she gets by on disability. she's never been rich. my cleaning lady is a republican. she makes $12 an hour.

i've always felt that the democrats were the party who cares about the "little guy", but what i've seen in the last few years makes me wonder.

This is just the sort of rhetoric that needs to be hammered home at every opportunity.

If the rich actually had to pay their fair share to live they wouldn't be rich anymore. i.e., Gasoline costs me $3.00 per gal, but it costs Bill Gates (et.al) the same $3.00 whats up with that?

Gates (eta.al) should pay 30k per gal for gas, they might stop relying on those private planes and limos. Gates electric bill should be a Million dollars a month, they might actually turn off a light or two. Gates should pay a premium for food they might respect the fact that millions of people are going hungry and therefore pass on the Lobster and crab. All of the excess in cost should not go to the corporations that provide the services it should be delivered to the govt as a form of tax and that should be what pays for all the social programs.

Repukes counter that the rich are the businesses that hire people and produce the goods and services and capitalism is the American dream blah, blah, greed is all it is pure and simple greed.

... were the same entitled assholes who said slavery was there to provide a better life to the average slave. Remember, life in Africa was supposed to be so bad that the crumbs the good massahs were throwing the way of their slaves was nothing but good Christian love and sharing.

By the way, there are plenty (if not the majority) of Dems who share a similar attitude.


No one goes to work oppressing others waking in the morning thinking to themselves "I am going to f*ck some people up today! yeaaaah!" Nope, they all think they are doing "the right thing" because they are so great they know exactly what is "best" for others. That is a human constant through our short history.

Holding our own accuntable is something that is unheard of in the Lockstep party of NO. Democrats with a majority in the Congress had a golden opportunity to lead this nation to real prosperity but so many are still so beholden to their corporate masters that they dare not go too far to the left.... LOL... those are the DINO's that need to disappear once and for all...

Check out their new talking points:

http://www.seminolechronicle.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2010/07/14/4c3e294529d61

On their Yachts and in their beach homes sipping Martini's ..double olives....right now..tonight.

Laughing at you!

NT!

It took this law professor almost two years to figure that out?

and the point of the speech was basically that- the Republicans are for the rich and no one else.

There is nothing to suggest that any of this is not true. There is lots to prove that it is true.

His policies (ACTIONS) seem to be supporting the very people, RICH ONES, he is criticizing. Like I said, WORDS only to make us think that he is for us when he is not.

I voted for Obama because I wanted him to be a DEMOCRAT president with DEMOCRAT values for ALL AMERICANS.

Instead we get what one post at another web blog said:

"A friend of mine who is an electrician says that some of his construction buddies jokingly call Obama "The DISCO" president: Democrat In Skin Color Only.

People look at him and see Democrat. People hear him, and they hear Democrat. He looks like a Democrat, He sounds like a Democrat, but he Walks Like A Republican."

VERY SAD.

They bailed out Wall Street, the insurance companies and the banks.
They are doing little or nothing to bail out home owners.
They have resisted and or failed to create single payer health care insurance.
They have cooperated in the delay/denial of unemployment insurance extensions.
They are constructing a meaningless financial "reform" bill.
They have escalated the war in Afghanistan.
They have supported the conquest of Iraq oil for Occidental Petroleum et al.
They have let the incompetents at BP run the show in the Gulf of Mexico.
They want to subtract BP payments to fishermen for cleaning up the oil spill from future BP damage settlements with the same fishermen.

We have two right wing parties, and both of them represent the rich.

remember Little Boots emergency meeting? However, how that bailout money was distributed and accounted for, now that's another story. We needed really tight controls on those funds and some of the "too big to fail" banks, apparently weren't willing to divulge all of their transactions. Also, I believe they sat on money instead of helping many small businesses or main street--another words tightened the purse strings.

in the Senate.

I wouldn't let him off the hook so easily.

Of course, he then appointed Geithner to be treasury secretary even after it became clear that Geithner owed $240,000 or so in back taxes.

I expected to be disappointed in Obama's economic policies when he appointed all those Clinton retreads to his campaign advisory committee.

Oh, and then there was the little thing about NAFTA . . .

Don't get me wrong. I never even thought about voting for McCain or any other Republican for any office other than township treasurer because for that office the local dems nominated an idiot and the reps didn't.

How else do you explain those teabagging idiots who make less than $100k, take off work in the middle of the week and drive 1000 miles to go protest against things like regulating Wall Street or letting tax cuts expire for the mega-rich (i.e. not them)?

because hes right.

I want to post it on my blog and give props to the artist.

I'd say it's a fair call.