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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-10 02:58 PM
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Tipping point... I think we have finally reached it
time will tell.

But I am positive things will get very interesting over the next few days... and if the WH has ANY brains they will realize where to go from this. If they don't... history will be damn interesting and very soon.

Oh and yes the dynamics in DC just changed... and time will tell.

This is a slap in the face for the IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY... PERIOD!
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WHEN CRABS ROAR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-10 03:01 PM
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1. Call all the Senators right now ! Just do it ! Tie up the phones !
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sabrina 1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-10 03:03 PM
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3. I called Boxer, haven't gotten to Feingold yet, and got right through
They said she has not yet issued a statement on whether she will be joining Bernie Sanders or not yet. And they have had a 'few' calls so far.
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jtown1123 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-10 03:04 PM
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4. K&R 1 800 998 0180 (Leg Hotline #)
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-10 03:09 PM
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6. We already did
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sabrina 1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-10 03:02 PM
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2. Not sure that it is. They will pass the Bush tax cuts, or did I miss
miss something? Seriously, that's all that matters and if they do, nothing has changed, except they might throw a few more little crumbs our way which they were probably holding, and had agreed upon if things got a little rough anyhow. But if the Tax Cuts for the Wealthy pass, then they won, again.

The rest is just theater, the usual pretend fight before the final victory for the wealthy. It got old during the Bush administration, actually. And nothing has changed that I can see.

If they stop the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, then I will agree.
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-10 03:10 PM
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8. That is where you and I play our parts in this play
that said, it is a serious challenge to the Imperial Presidency.
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sabrina 1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-10 03:18 PM
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11. If the tax cuts pass, how is that a challenge to the imperial presidency
It will mean the wealthy got what they wanted out of this presidency. As they have all along, with the bailouts, the Health Care bill and now this.

Next, will be SS and they will win again.

I have called and registered my disgust with this, but we did that back in the Bush years and I am not feeling anything different in the responses I'm getting now from Democrats, than I did then. I don't hear 'watch what we are about to do. We are going to fight for YOUR interests'. It's the same old vascilation 'she hasn't issued a statement yet'. What does that say? Boxer is not standing beside Bernie Sanders and 'she hasn't issued a statement yet'. That is so familiar, from the Bush years.

We have not won one important battle in over ten years. I am glad you are seeing positive signs, but I just can't see them and as for us, they don't care about us until we start to get some power.

Right now this government is about to charge a news media with espionage. Lieberman is talking about investigating the NYT. This I would have expected from the Bush gang. So, help me please, how are things getting better? I want to believe that.
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-10 03:21 PM
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12. We might lose the battle but the war is still on
I guess I have a far longer view of history than this week... but that is a profesional thing...

This is the first time ANY sitting president has gotten this kind of a rebuke from his own party in a LONG TIME... like GENERATIONS here.
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Still a Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-10 03:09 PM
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5. Could you be a tad more specific?
"things will get very interesting" and "history will be damn interesting and very soon" don't say a lot.
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-10 03:12 PM
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9. Look at the confluence of events, not just in the US
The push-back from the little people has begun
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tblue37 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-10 03:10 PM
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7. Nah, when the Republicans win the WH from us, they will
use the presidency the same way Dick Cheney and W did--as though it bestows dictatorial powers on the one who holds it.
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-10 03:15 PM
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10. Things are changing very fast... in ways that will make things
very unpredictable... If the EMPIRE comes tumbling down even that will be up for grabs
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BzaDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-10 03:24 PM
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14. ... you are saying that a bunch of people venting about a tax bill that will become law shortly
foreshadows the "EMPIRE" coming "tumbling down?"

:rofl:

If these ridiculous coping mechanism are required for you to not become depressed, more power to you.
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BzaDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-10 03:22 PM
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13. I wonder if youll say that after the bill (after a few changes) passes both Houses and is signed. nt
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