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the consistent effort by conservative, corporate dems to try and tarnish progressive [View all] cali Feb 2014 OP

Even more ProSense Feb 2014 #1

Absolutely! Thanks for saying it, Cali! markpkessinger Feb 2014 #2

it's embarrassingly obvious. so thinly veiled. cali Feb 2014 #5

K&R! I'm glad it is so obvious. Enthusiast Feb 2014 #47

It's obvious. Because it's clear that policies and issues are never what they talk about. sabrina 1 Feb 2014 #82

Thank you, Sabrina. Enthusiast Feb 2014 #88

I agree. However, they may be changing minds, inadvertently. The more we see of them sabrina 1 Feb 2014 #89

Excellent point. One I should have considered......nt Enthusiast Feb 2014 #90

What's more, you can't even get them to state any policy position. All they do is link to barages of grahamhgreen Feb 2014 #105

Yes, that is so true. Their purpose seems to be to prevent any kind of discussion regarding sabrina 1 Feb 2014 #115

I will not cede this ground. Funny how they will not engage when you ask their position. My guess is grahamhgreen Feb 2014 #118

You have also missed the point of those posts. Pretzel_Warrior Feb 2014 #95

K&R. JDPriestly Feb 2014 #3

+1000 Agony Feb 2014 #12

you nail it, JD. cali Feb 2014 #13

Seriously, ProSense Feb 2014 #15

This will make very little difference in the lives of working people and families. JDPriestly Feb 2014 #29

Unfrigginbelievable ProSense Feb 2014 #30

When Obama came into office, he faced an economic crisis due to the excessive JDPriestly Feb 2014 #73

Wrong, ProSense Feb 2014 #74

The underlying purpose and theory was the same. The amount changed. JDPriestly Feb 2014 #76

We still need to make the too-big-too-fail banks smaller and spread the risk in the banking JDPriestly Feb 2014 #83

The bank bailout, by comparison, was 16 to 20 TRILLION!!!! Look, are you for or against breaking up grahamhgreen Feb 2014 #109

Was anyone ever arrested and charged for the corruption in the mortgage business? We were sabrina 1 Feb 2014 #117

Your post needs more blue links. progressoid Feb 2014 #77

Do you know why people hate "blue links"? ProSense Feb 2014 #79

I thought it was the obfuscation and diversion. progressoid Feb 2014 #84

Nope, people who have backup for their points don't hate "blue links" nt stevenleser Feb 2014 #100

Probably because they usually Union Scribe Feb 2014 #86

This. +1 Ed Suspicious Feb 2014 #104

Straw man. No one claimed that Obama hates Warren, geesh. People post blue links because they grahamhgreen Feb 2014 #110

Because obfuscation sucks AgingAmerican Feb 2014 #113

Running a little thin on the ROFL smilies, too. reusrename Feb 2014 #87

More ProSense Feb 2014 #16

Exceptions to the rule and related only to labor issues. JDPriestly Feb 2014 #22

WTH? ProSense Feb 2014 #25

And yet, as Elizabeth Warren has pointed out, the Justice Department as refused to bring JDPriestly Feb 2014 #34

That's fine ProSense Feb 2014 #41

Worshipers is accurate. JDPriestly Feb 2014 #44

Wait ProSense Feb 2014 #48

But I also support Obama's agenda on economic inequality. JDPriestly Feb 2014 #54

President Obama ProSense Feb 2014 #59

Nail on head +1000 Armstead Feb 2014 #23

Hit nerve? pocoloco Feb 2014 #32

Well said. zeemike Feb 2014 #40

Honestly, why can't we have people like you running the country? Enthusiast Feb 2014 #50

Your analysis is spot on in this thread. closeupready Feb 2014 #69

That gets you a <3 grahamhgreen Feb 2014 #106

....^ 840high Feb 2014 #112

Every post is a worthy read. Kurovski Feb 2014 #114

K&R bobduca Feb 2014 #116

du rec. xchrom Feb 2014 #4

Bush league psych-out stuff TransitJohn Feb 2014 #6

lol perfect. cali Feb 2014 #9

Odd how the contented are determined to try and spread discontent Fumesucker Feb 2014 #7

And furthermore, that's all they have, appeals to emotion and suggestive innuendoes. nt bemildred Feb 2014 #8

it's that it's so obvious. they should work harder at it. cali Feb 2014 #10

Well, I feel sorry for them really. bemildred Feb 2014 #11

They're scared of a populist movement. The corporatists would hate to see the People have a voice. Scuba Feb 2014 #14

+1 daleanime Feb 2014 #18

Bingo! Enthusiast Feb 2014 #56

Maybe one day we'll have a President of which the David Sirota types approve. TheMathieu Feb 2014 #17

You just sorta reinforced the OP Armstead Feb 2014 #26

Or one who doesn't ignore and disapprove of the very people who elected him/her. sabrina 1 Feb 2014 #93

Funny how you consistently attack liberals and liberalism Scootaloo Feb 2014 #103

That road goes both ways.. lanes fully operational Peacetrain Feb 2014 #19

That's what a lot of the "carping" is about Armstead Feb 2014 #27

As I said above, we shall see whether the carping is just way out there or whether those who JDPriestly Feb 2014 #37

Why do you think there is so much continual "carping" from the right? Enthusiast Feb 2014 #60

. jsr Feb 2014 #20

It is "try to" treestar Feb 2014 #21

lol. what nonsense. who needs to use warren or bernie. it's in response to the coporate cali Feb 2014 #24

Oh gosh you've found us out...Busted! Armstead Feb 2014 #28

Compromise is only bad when President Obama does it. JoePhilly Feb 2014 #31

You distort the meaning of compromise Armstead Feb 2014 #33

Why use a hypothetical when you should have no problem finding JoePhilly Feb 2014 #35

The ACA is an example of wrong direction rather than compromise Armstead Feb 2014 #42

The PO was never going to pass. And its easy to prove. JoePhilly Feb 2014 #57

I haven't got time to go into the intricacies of that all over again but... Armstead Feb 2014 #62

Lieberman votes NO on your proposal. JoePhilly Feb 2014 #64

If one senator has the power to overcome the will of the Prez and majority of Denms in Congress.. Armstead Feb 2014 #67

+1 warrant46 Feb 2014 #61

Precisely. Enthusiast Feb 2014 #65

Well that is a good example of what is called compromise. zeemike Feb 2014 #49

And DADT itself was a 'compromise' made in 1993. So ten years later, as a compromise Bluenorthwest Feb 2014 #72

So you would have prefered the alternative to DADT? Egnever Feb 2014 #107

Indeed. joshcryer Feb 2014 #81

It was Woodrow Wilson who crushed the Socialist Party. Laelth Feb 2014 #36

You characterize raising situations where these folks agreed with Obama as "tarnishing" them stevenleser Feb 2014 #38

The message that a certain category of peope are stupid and naive is what is bothersome Armstead Feb 2014 #51

That is not the subject of the OP which is what I am addressing. The OP characterizes stevenleser Feb 2014 #53

I don't always agree with the ways cali expresses things, but Armstead Feb 2014 #58

If there are no superheroes then there are no supervillains either Fumesucker Feb 2014 #92

Well said Pretzel_Warrior Feb 2014 #96

well, that's not the only por sense of reality and history they show stupidicus Feb 2014 #39

Good points Armstead Feb 2014 #52

Well said. eom Agony Feb 2014 #68

It's a two-way street. Quotes and votes matter. Nobody is perfect. We can live with that. pampango Feb 2014 #43

I will never, ever fucking understand Bobbie Jo Feb 2014 #45

Good Point supercats Feb 2014 #46

This is true, but the converse is just as prevalent and just as lame. Donald Ian Rankin Feb 2014 #55

It is hardly the case that I am the only one here sadoldgirl Feb 2014 #63

ooh, Kerry voted for the IWR, who cares right? ucrdem Feb 2014 #66

uh, discernment. voting for that was a big deal. bernie voted against it cali Feb 2014 #70

I'm not talking about Bernie. nt ucrdem Feb 2014 #71

It smacks of desperation. Egalitarian Thug Feb 2014 #75

Totally! Rex Feb 2014 #85

what's laughable is Whisp Feb 2014 #78

"But Obama is very throw awayable and disposable, APPARENTLY." djean111 Feb 2014 #80

You're is a sad commentary on how you view the world. Pretzel_Warrior Feb 2014 #97

How he is, as a person, is non-political. djean111 Feb 2014 #98

Unrec brooklynite Feb 2014 #91

You've missed the point. Obama isn't as "corporatist" Pretzel_Warrior Feb 2014 #94

They are being brought up to depress the vote Fumesucker Feb 2014 #99

They're called Right-lighters. n/t Scootaloo Feb 2014 #101

Republican Democrats, I've heard as well. grahamhgreen Feb 2014 #111

Glad this got kicked again. woo me with science Feb 2014 #102

K & R L0oniX Feb 2014 #108