Obama just gave the Republicans everything that they wanted

is a shit statement

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Then it would have been everything they wanted.

Sorry to see that your blinders has not been removed. Perhaps a Goo-B-Gone will help you take off them?

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42 Broken Promises:
Increase the capital gains and dividends taxes for higher-income taxpayers.
Expand the child and dependent care credit.
Create a foreclosure prevention fund for homeowners.
End income tax for seniors making less than $50,000.
End no-bid contracts above $25,000.
Repeal the Bush tax cuts for higher incomes.
Phase out exemptions and deductions for higher earners.
Sign the Employee Free Choice Act, making it easier for workers to unionize.
Forbid companies in bankruptcy from giving executives bonuses.
Allow workers to claim more in unpaid wages and benefits in bankruptcy court.
Allow imported prescription drugs.
Appoint federal-level coordinator to oversee all federal autism efforts.
Direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct a comprehensive study of federal cancer initiatives.
Create a National Commission on People with Disabilities, Employment, and Social Security.
Change federal rules so small businesses owned by people with disabilities can get preferential treatment for federal contracts.
Form international group to help Iraq refugees.
Close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center.
Reinstate special envoy for the Americas.
Double the Peace Corps.
Centralize ethics and lobbying information for voters.
Allow five days of public comment before signing bills.
Tougher rules against revolving door for lobbyists and former officials.
Double funding for afterschool programs.
Urge states to treat same-sex couples with full equality in their family and adoption laws.
Allow bankruptcy judges to modify terms of a home mortgage.
Restore Superfund program so that polluters pay for clean-ups.
Re-establish the National Aeronautics and Space Council.
Support human mission to moon by 2020.
Pay for the national service plan without increasing the deficit.
Limit term of director of national intelligence.
Give annual "State of the World" address.
Reduce earmarks to 1994 levels.
Enact windfall profits tax for oil companies.
Create cap and trade system with interim goals to reduce global warming.
Require plug-in fleet at the White House.
Provide an annual report on "state of our energy future".
Allow penalty-free hardship withdrawals from retirement accounts in 2008 and 2009.
Recognize the Armenian genocide.
No family making less than $250,000 will see "any form of tax increase."
Negotiate health care reform in public sessions televised on C-SPAN.
Create a public option health plan for a new National Health Insurance Exchange.
Introduce a comprehensive immigration bill in the first year.

41 Promise Compromises:
Eliminate capital gains taxes for small businesses and start-ups.
Expand the earned income tax credit.
Establish a small business initiative for rural America.
Create a tax credit of $500 for workers.
Create more public-private business incubators for poor communities.
Freeze the 2009 estate tax law.
Create a National Health Insurance Exchange.
Create a small business tax credit to help with health premiums.
Strengthen antitrust laws to prevent overcharging for malpractice insurance.
Reimburse employer health plans for a portion of catastrophic costs.
Invest $10 billion per year in early intervention educational and developmental programs.
Allow all veterans back into the Veterans Administration.
Ensure the Guard and Reserves can meet their homeland security missions.
Seek code of conduct for space-faring nations.
Revise the Patriot Act to increase oversight on government surveillance.
Convene a summit on preventing nuclear terrorism.
Create a national cyber adviser to coordinate security of electronic infrastructure.
Significantly increase funding for the National Endowment for Democracy (NED).
Require more disclosure and a waiting period for earmarks.
Create the American Opportunity Tax Credit to offset college costs.
Spend $25 million a year on programs to raise awareness of college financial aid.
Protect forest service lands from more roads.
Provide more funds to educate young hunters and anglers.
Crack down on employers who hire undocumented immigrants.
Eliminate disparity in sentencing for crack and cocaine.
Repeal law that limits the sharing of gun-tracing data.
Restore housing in New Orleans.
Appoint experienced disaster official to head FEMA.
Encourage more public service by college students.
Set a three-month moratorium on foreclosures.
Extend Production Tax Credit to encourage renewable energy.
Require drilling on current oil and gas leases.
Weatherize 1 million homes per year.
Use revenue from cap and trade to support clean energy and environmental restoration.
Seek more funding for transportation security.
Phase out incandescent light bulbs.
Give Al Gore a key role on global warming.
Create clean technology venture capital fund.
Create a $3,000 tax credit for companies that add jobs.
Go "line by line" over earmarks to make sure money being spent wisely.
No signing statements to nullify instructions from Congress.

69 Promises placed on the shelf:
Eliminate all oil and gas tax loopholes.
Require publicly traded financial partnerships to pay the corporate income tax.
Close loopholes in the corporate tax deductibility of CEO pay.
Provide option for a pre-filled-out tax form
Create a mortgage interest tax credit for non-itemizers.
Enforce pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) budget rules.
Lift the payroll tax cap on earnings above $250,000.
Require health care providers to report preventable medical errors.
Modernize public health buildings.
Provide $50 billion by 2013 for the global fight against HIV/AIDS.
Provide the CDC $50 million in new funding to determine the most effective approaches for cancer patient care.
Sign the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Amend the Medicare "homebound" rule to allow some travel without loss of benefits.
Dedicate more resources to fight employment discrimination against military reservists.
Issue a "best practices" report for states on reducing domestic violence.
Provide at least $2 billion for services to Iraqi refugees.
Create a specialized military advisers corps.
Restore 24-month limit on cumulative Guard and Reserve deployment time.
Make National Guard leader a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Establish transparency standards for military contractors.
Clarify legal status for defense contractor personnel.
Launch a new 'America's Voice Corps'.
Develop an alternative to President Bush's Military Commissions Act on handling detainees.
Restrict warrantless wiretaps.
Restore habeas corpus rights for "enemy combatants".
Strengthen the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and double its budget in the next four years.
Secure ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).
Create loan sanctions to stop private creditors from lending to repressive regimes.
With the G-8, launch Health Infrastructure 2020.
Strengthen the State Department's ability to respond to conflict.
Direct attorney general and homeland security secretary to meet with Latin American leaders to develop a hemispheric crime strategy.
Seek independent watchdog agency to investigate congressional ethics violations.
Expose Special Interest Tax Breaks to Public Scrutiny.
Make White House communications public.
Support college credit initiatives.
Create scholarships to recruit new teachers.
Require all schools of education to be accredited.
Create a voluntary national performance assessment for educators.
Restore the Great Lakes.
Help students and their families become aware of college readiness.
Fund proposals to help fish and game survive climate change.
Expand the Employment Non-Discrimination Act to include sexual orientation and gender identity.
Eliminate caps on damages for discrimination cases.
Enhance drug courts.
Ban racial profiling by federal law enforcement agencies.
Encourage videotaping of interrogations in capital cases.
Create a prison-to-work incentive program.
Push for a college football playoff system.
Increase the minimum wage to $9.50 an hour.
Sign the Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy Families Act.
Provide incentives to draw employers into areas hardest-hit by Katrina.
Create a national catastrophe insurance reserve.
Establish a Global Energy Corps to promote green energy in developing countries.
Limit subsidies for agribusiness.
Give tax incentives to new farmers.
Strengthen the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Stop al Qaida prison recruitment.
Call for a consultative group of congressional leaders on national security.
Create a Presidential Early Learning Council.
Launch a Children's First Agenda.
Work to ban the permanent replacement of striking workers.
Educate business about the benefits of flexible work schedules and telecommuting.
Require 25 percent renewable energy by 2025.
Work with UN on climate change.
Double federal program to help "reverse" commuters who go from city to suburbs.
Sign the Freedom of Choice Act.
Give the White House's Privacy and Civil Liberties Board subpoena power.
Reproductive health care will be "at the heart" of health care reform.
Cut the cost of a typical family's health insurance premium by up to $2,500 a year.

He only gave them 80-90% of what they wanted.

Alas, you are becoming predictable.

"In the real world, this is a solid achievement," said Rep. Pete King (R-L.I.). "It's 90% of what we were looking for."

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