We're Doomed... 'Axelrod: Obama Win Will 'Liberate' Republicans To Work With President' - TheHill

It's more of an election year line. "You hate congressional gridlock? Re-elect the president, give him more Democrats, and they'll all be able to work with Republicans who are sensible and won't work only to destroy him!"

Nobody for a second believes it, but it might play well with moderates who don't pay too much attention to politics.

unfortunately, the Obama Administration took about 3 years too long to realize that the Republicans had no intentions of working with him.

But I don't think he still believes they'll work with him. After the whole debt ceiling bullshit, he hasn't been exactly friendly with them.

Bi-partisanship is code for a one party system and the Republicans don't even want that.

Obama is all we got and he's ideologically hogtied. Good intentions are no longer enough.

I'm agreeing with you.

Obama is saying, I havent gotten certain things done because the GOP is blocking me. A pragmatic minded independent voter with no particular loyalty to the Democratic Party might say, well, the GOP is going to block you in the 2nd term too so youre not going to get these things done then either. So it makes perfect sense to paint this picture of how things are going to be different next time.

What you said about people not paying a lot of attention is right on, imho.

there`s more declared independent voters this election year. it`s close to one third of the electorate.

So it really doesn't matter much what they think.

President Obama will have to make the case that it has been the republicans' fault for the "lack of progress" (you see, the republicans have already won that debate). It didn't work too well in 2010. Maybe they'll have better luck this year.

They'll be doubling down on the lunacy if he wins re-election. And let's wait and see what Citizen's United does to the Congress.
If they keep the house and get the Senate, all the newbies will be teabaggers.

Dangerously naive still is Mr. Axelrod.

It allows so much good to be done... For the 1%.

It completely demoralizes many of us on the left who would like to see them do something for the 99%. Psychological warfare at its best. Learned helplessness defined. Make the left tune out, give up, and drop out. Lowered or zero expectations allows the status quo to continue, and when the left actually begins to mobilize and remotely challenge the Democrats effectively we repeatedly get called names and are told to shut up.

At this point giving the Republicans in Congress cover is tantamount to a betrayal of the American people. It has always seemed to me that elected Democrats #1 goal is to ensure the viability and continuance of the Republican Party. They have done so in a number of ways over the past decade.

We still MUST elect Democrats in this country, and we should begin protesting their asses the day after they get elected to raise awareness in this country of what we are fighting against.

Axelrod is in fairy dust territory.

Personally, I think that after last year's three free trade bills and this year's Cantor-Obama JOBS act, we Democrats are finally making up for years of not being sensitive to the needs of Republicans. While they won't admit it yet, I think Republicans are beginning to see that they can trust us again. If we can just work with them to get the hyper-austerity provisions of Simpson-Bowles passed, I expect they'll finally see their way clear to working with us again.

Together, we can give more money to the Job Creators than either party could working alone.

Sincerely,

Third-Way Manny

I'm impressed with your clarity of vision, but maybe you should cut down on your ibogain intake. Or increase it.

That's a little too much change I can believe in. Easy does it, Third-Way Nanny.

Obama Trade Deal To Put Corporations Above The Law

No such thing.

Priceless.

who he knew would win the house in 2010 due to the fact not enough white people came to the polls even though the cat calls went out...

Kind of like this scene..







Oh, what do you do for a living by the way? Are you Cindy's brother?

Your facts are off, the grammar needs some work, but the spelling is OK! I'm guessing you discovered spell check, good stuff!

Anyway, enjoy your brief stay.

BTW, did you know that unemployment was reduced by 40% in FDR's first term? That's what Liberal policies can do.

"Liberate" Republicans? That word liberate sure does sound like liberal. As in - when Obama wins, they'll happily fall in line, turned into liberals and work with the President. Think of the hidden meaning in the use of that specific word. It wasn't an accident.

ways. I love it.

and you're right, the whole thing is funny as hell.

Those GOPtards found ways to politicize work as bland as highway construction. That pissed off their supporters in the construction industry/lobby.

until the republicans decided to go hard right and the democrats chased them over the center.

democracy needs two or more healthy parties to stop the tyranny of one party control.

I think Axelrod is either fooling himself or trying to fool all of us.

-Laelth

but those Republicans are getting drummed out of the party en masse, so by November Axelrod will be wrong.

but that sounds awfully rational to me...and one thing these zealots are NOT is rational...they will literally drive us all off the cliff before that happens...

if the President is reelected. Clearly the party base does not want to hear this.