Hmm...now I'm wondering...what do the Republicans have to run on?

They got what they wanted on tax cuts, therefore, they can no longer assert that:

1. They are for balancing the budget
2. They are for cutting spending
3. They are for addressing the national debt
4. They are for reducing the deficit
5. The Tea Baggers can no longer claim to be for the "little man." Their fake populism has been uncovered
6. They care about the middle class
7. They don't support the extension of unemployment benefits
8. Claim that Obama is a Marxist, socialist, liberal, commie, Pinko


....

In the short run, it seems as though we lost, but I'm beginning to wonder if we really did in the long term.

Repukes and the Teabaggers no longer have anything to run on.

Think about it...

What say you?

have any issues to run on?


lmao

The nit wits only remember "700 billion" and "stimulus" so they think Obama "spent" 700 billion.


And Obama is playing in to their hands again - by calling this an 800 billion dollar stimulus. :banghead:

its that the Republicans just destroyed everything that involved money that they where going to run on. At least in a sane non Faux news run media controlled country.

And Obama will say "We can trust the Republicans and do business with them if it weren't for the purity-police Left who want to help working Americans and not slash Social Security".

Nice choice.

And it will embolden them.

This was the time to strike them a severe blow, imo.

chicken into a fox. Just watch and see.

they can invent boogie-men out of thin air.

political strategy right now. I'm with you on principle.

during the midterm.

Obama seems to believe that if he champions Republican objectives that it will have a different result than was seen in the mid terms.

I'm not sure if this odd conclusion is the result of a personality disorder, brain damage, or can be chalked up to his being naive, but any way you slice it, it's a threat to our party, our objectives, and our way of life.

I don't see how we can afford to follow Obama over the bipartisan cliff.

You expect the media or some Dems to call them on it? Not going to happen.

because even when we do have the right messaging, the Corporate Media won't air that fight?

I've seem many instances where the Democrats and/or Obama have fought back, giving speeches, and on fire about what the Republicans are doing, but that rarely if ever makes "the news." Were it not for PBS and C-Span, no one could convince me that the Dems/Obama were fighting.

So many people complain that the Democrats aren't fighting back, but many of them are. The Corporate Media isn't airing that fight.

but they'll blame the deficit on ss and medicare and every other social service.
and if unemployment is still hovering around 10% they'll win.

and that's when SS will be destroyed. that is the jewel in the crown, beyond a doubt. they will be rich beyond their wildest dreams if/when that happens. that's when we will take to the streets, when it becomes a matter of eating or not eating for the majority. what do you think the camps were being prepared for?

the debt is has blown up under Obama.

It's about to be destroyed forever and ever.

You know, unless the wealthmongers actually create jobs.

But will they do that? After all, the last thing they want to see is a successful economy under a Democratic president.

And really, it's not as if they even created jobs when there was a Republican-controlled Washington.

But here's the rub .. . they have no excuse at all. They have no uncertainty anymore. A president who's pretty much giving them whatever they want isn't much of a roadblock. At this point, what they're doing is more or less blatant THEFT.

I don't see them changing anytime in the near future.

It seems that the day's Corporate Media narrative is that Obama is attacking his base--the liberals. And the Republicans are celebrating with glee as a result. But, the question is whether or not they can continue to call Obama a "liberal" seeing as though he caved on this core, "liberal" issue.

I'm just pontificating on this.

"Vote for us and we'll make those tax cuts PERMANENT!"

They ficked that one by crying like babies and not signing the START treaty until their corporate paymasters got a 'tax break'?

Count on it.

Total end to the Estate taxes --

Changing unemployment insurance to one week --

Completely destroying anything left of safety nets --

And continuing to privatize government -- ridding it especially of all unions?

You're kidding, right?

Media, we may not have a chance at all.

if not outright surrender --

We've been seeing that for two years now --

Is anyone still watching the corporate-press?

We have to find a way to get through the next two years with Obama

and given the last two, I'm not confident -- I'm very concerned.

Basically, I think we have to get him to announce he'll step down in 2012.

I think we may get our wish after this tax cut debacle. He has absolutely ZERO political capital left. He has squandered so many opportunities. Really sad. He could have gone down as one of the greatest presidents ever. His cowardly demeanor has destoyed any chance of that. Very sad and depressing!!

I think Obama sees $70 billion for two years as a price he can pay in order to say "I gave you assholes everything you ever wanted. And now it's my turn.".

From my point of view, very little.

They'll continue to run their "deficit fighter" meme and the MSM will give them a pass.

And their base will act like it's god given fact.

Their constituents will buy it hook line and sinker. They will still call Obama a Marxist socialist or whatever, no matter how good his Reagan impersonation is. All Obama is doing is pushing the right further right. They will keep 2 steps to the right of Obama no matter what. We are losing in the short term and even bigger in the long term when all of Obama's chickens come home to roost.

both in terms of if and how. But to be clear, there are plenty of other issues beyond the 8 you list, social, foreign policy, environmental, labor, education, regulation, litigation, energy, etc.

None of what they assert has to be true. They'll get their talking points, fan out across the airwaves, make their assertions, and the corporate bobble head media will repeat their assertions until the unsuspecting masses believe them to be true.

Even with a Dem in the White House and with overwhelming Dem majorities in the House and Senate.

They just keep winning.