I want to ask if you saw this statement out of the White House?
“The president ran for the office to bring both parties together to solve big problems. That’s what he is trying to do here, even if it comes with political pain,” said Dan Pfeiffer, the White House communications director ---
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/obama-takes-political-policy-gamble-on-big-deal/2011/07/22/gIQACwGNXI_story.htmlFor me, seeing that the president's communications director sent this message out, shows they just don't get the disgust directed at government for playing their same old tired games, when we were promised, in a very profound manner, transparency this go around.
This is not about the parties coming together by his efforts, it's about just getting the things done without them that needed done. And, frankly, It's about You, and me, and those we know and care about - and to include them at table after table with a comfy chair (meaning, giving them plenty of what they want, but little of what they politically had the right to ask for) was ridiculous.
Yet, it has been repeatedly the focus of the president, for all intent and purposes, to include the horribly disliked GOP and crackpot leaders (how odd are Boner & Cantor), and here we are a decade into ridiculous tax cuts for the rich and powerful, which did not create jobs, and Cantor has been yelling for further corporate cuts. Why then would President Obama resuscitate their party when we handed him a dying animal that hundreds of thousands fought so hard to crush in 2008?
The GOP does not want to do anything but stall any recovery that their disastrous leader dumped upon our country, and they hate the president, they hate him with a passion! Why did the Democrats be so "nice" to the GOP when Obama got in office when those bastards destroyed our country and made life harsh on millions of us and slaughtered thousands of our troops with their false warfare.
They've actually had people in their party pray for God to stop Obama! These people are hate personified (YOU LIE! anyone?) and don't care if this country's citizens suffer just as long as they crush the president politically for God's sake! And yet, on the weekend of a decision that puts his presidency on the line, his communications director says that he ran for office to bring the parties together to work on the nation's problems - no - the GOP needed ignored, so the Democrats could solve the problems - but that's not what we got.
I'd expect a Democratic Administration to be saying there is no reason that the people's Social Security should not even be discussed with the debt ceiling increase - but instead, he's coming to the GOP and offering trillions in cuts to our programs! What world are we living in? Are there other progressive Democrats out there? I ask you to please, call the House and Senate tomorrow and tell them - if you vote to cut our savings, instead of going elsewhere (oh, say the Pentagon budget) and eliminating tax protections for the ultra-rich, then we will look to support a primary challenger against you, and that also means you lose our campaign donations and efforts we've done in past elections for you!
I never worried about the outcome of '08 once the tickets were set for both parties - not once. The ignorant VP choice that the grumpy senator chose assured that the nation was going to finally get to be proud to have its first minority president, but he apparently lost the point of why we elected him, or he never understood what this country resoundingly elected him for - to fix the errors of Dumya! Not bring life back to the GOP, or as they call it, 'work' with them.
It really feels like the bill that is gonna come out of all of this is going to completely set the Democratic party on fire. :(