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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy are the Republicans throwing the election to Obama? What is going to happen in 2013? 2014?
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)after that
gateley
(62,683 posts)obstruction to ensure the economy still sucks until then. They frighten me.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)In the meantime, they are going to try everything to make Obama look bad and to obstruct him on everything.
teddy51
(3,491 posts)orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)seen at this late date as desperation ,especially because all they've done is make the president look like Einstein.
laundry_queen
(8,646 posts)As in, they already KNOW the President will get re-elected, and that they are no match for him (or, if you are prone to wear this Barack Obama is as likely to do their bidding, so they are 'letting' him have a second term) so they will wait until 2016 when they won't have to run against an incumbant.
orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)or Poppies nwo will begin to be exposed more and more for the reasons for our present and future misery,and Jeb doing his part ( Theft of Democracy ) in state of Florida 2000 will hinder him Too much to survive the facts.In 2016 , 2020 or the rest of his life.Most people consider K Street as part of the problem ,hopefully poltical chess & msm won't be enough to outweight the reality as 99% of us live.
TheWraith
(24,331 posts)If you mean for 2016, I doubt that too. The Bushes are finished.
a la izquierda
(11,794 posts)bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)All those Senate Democrats elected in 2008. Yikes.
elleng
(130,904 posts)If we're smart, we'll kick their a****, in '12, and '14, obtain some running room, and do it again in '16.
LiberalArkie
(15,715 posts)I never considered McCain/Palin a viable team, but as someone to just run for office and hope they don't win. The last thing wall street wanted was the Republican's getting the blame for what was to happen back in 2008.
orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)And thats why they CAN'T win and are hoping obstructionism will work for another 4 yrs.
FarLeftFist
(6,161 posts)They sling mud from the sidelines and try to spread their message of hate, ignorance and fear, but when it's time to put up or shut up they can't think of a single idea or "solution". ALL they are is a hate group. They are anti-progressive regressives. They have zero ideas on how to govern, they just want power.
socialist_n_TN
(11,481 posts)Booms and busts are part of capitalism. It's the way the system is set up.
thelordofhell
(4,569 posts)Gotta get those Citizen's United bucks!!
orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)instant sucsess with the 1% they need more than anybody.
southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)to get use to it. Unless OWS and tea party unite and stop what is going on. It has to be a grass roots to do the job.
orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)who seem diametrically opposed, to see their vast simularities.
southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)sibelian
(7,804 posts)The tenth planet Nibiru will align itself with the Earth's organic energy poles and the whole world will be engulfed by harmonic resonances of death and destruction. The lizard people will finally crawl out from the hollowed out skins of the 1% and yadda yadda yadda...
orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)sibelian
(7,804 posts)f'nerk
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)FCS, they are destroying the Congress and the economy to try to bring him down.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)and pay to clean their trash.How about that punctuation though, hoops ?
Yupster
(14,308 posts)Generally what second terms are remembered for is scandals and disasters.
Nixon had Watergate.
Reagan had Iran-Contra
Clinton had Monica
Bush had banking collapse.