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Cherchez la Femme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-11 02:56 PM
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44. To pass up a plum
and such a ripe, sweet, delicious, highly desired,--indeed, something to salivate over-- plum!

as starting the encroachment of The New Deal;
not to remove. Oh no.
But to Privatize.


They utterly desire removing blocks from the very foundation of the best legislation ever passed in this country.

Well, the best if one is focused upon helping the people instead of serving the oligarchs.


...as was put so aptly,
nay, CROWED OVER by "the Third Way" sociopaths
as so bravely 'touching the third rail of politics'


No Repiglican politician could ever broach that subject,
the howling would never cease.
They could NOT touch it;
that is, unless they wanted to lose their cushy, powerful job.
So what happened? How did it come about?

They got a "DEMOCRAT" to do it.


It's not Chess. It's not even checkers.
It's as simple and as blatant as a quick game of Snap,
or more appropriately: War.


For crucial legislation all this President has done is back-room, closed-door deals
giving away his bargaining chips before negotiations had even begun.

I used to think he was unprincipled; now I think he knows exactly what his principles are and he does not hesitate to act upon them.
Any observation of his actions, not his pretty words, evinces that.

This President is only a Democrat because the 'Pukes would never run a black man;
so the Democratic Party was his only option to achieve his goal,
which he did,
and is now governing as his Reagan-loving soul see's fit.

If I were a Repig, then I'd be happy.
But I'm not.
Either.

When,
IF
your eyes are ever opened, I don't think you'll be happy.


Of course, it's JMO
You, of course, are certainly free to hold your own.
History will most likely prove one of us right,
and I do believe that would be me.
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  -The Chessmaster Cometh? WilliamPitt  Jul-14-11 12:04 PM   #0 
  - Chess - The game in which pawns sacrificed.  paparush   Jul-14-11 12:13 PM   #1 
  - Pawns are sacrificed to save the aristocrats. Nothing new there. nm  rhett o rick   Jul-14-11 12:24 PM   #9 
  - +1. Who doesn't want to work an extra two years before retirement?  Dawgs   Jul-14-11 12:56 PM   #12 
  - I think the thingy about pan dimensional chess is a bit threadbare....  cliffordu   Jul-14-11 12:15 PM   #2 
  - "He simply picks his fights." Wow, finally after two and a half years he's picked one.  bertman   Jul-14-11 06:40 PM   #26 
     - Never enough, never enough, never enough.  cliffordu   Jul-15-11 06:46 PM   #46 
        - MORE than enough giving away the store instead of fighting. MORE than enough  bertman   Jul-16-11 10:16 AM   #49 
  - if no Deal has been made, how can you be sure...?  fascisthunter   Jul-14-11 12:15 PM   #3 
  - The panic we saw is what happens when people get too far out in front of the news cycle.  LoZoccolo   Jul-14-11 12:17 PM   #4 
  - Ecellent assessment  DearAbby   Jul-14-11 12:18 PM   #5 
  - The howls of outrage from the left are part of the theater and need to keep happening  Recursion   Jul-14-11 12:19 PM   #6 
  - What a great observation.  KittyWampus   Jul-14-11 02:26 PM   #20 
  - I love that at this point basically all parts of the political spectrum are disgusted (nt)  Recursion   Jul-14-11 02:34 PM   #22 
     - Centrists are corrupt idiots. (nt)  w4rma   Jul-16-11 06:20 PM   #50 
  - Yep. knowing your "friends" is as important as knowing your enemies  scheming daemons   Jul-15-11 01:41 PM   #34 
  - "i don't want to play the game better, i want to end the games"  Enrique   Jul-14-11 12:21 PM   #7 
  - I'll go you one further, Will.  Robb   Jul-14-11 12:22 PM   #8 
  - He HAS to play chess.  madamesilverspurs   Jul-14-11 12:25 PM   #10 
  - Omama and the others putting social security and medicare  midnight   Jul-14-11 12:47 PM   #11 
  - I heard this in a coffee shop in minnesota.  MedicalAdmin   Jul-14-11 02:23 PM   #18 
  - Offering up some respect if this is true. We never know  anamandujano   Jul-14-11 01:03 PM   #13 
  - Now that SS/Medicare are a pawn, they will be in play in every game that follows. Is that going to  leveymg   Jul-14-11 01:11 PM   #14 
  - Just asking because I don't really know but,  anamandujano   Jul-14-11 01:31 PM   #16 
     - "IF that is what he wants." That IS, the question.  leveymg   Jul-14-11 03:38 PM   #24 
  - "I'm not yet ready to believe those two all-important programs are out of the woods yet."  Safetykitten   Jul-14-11 01:17 PM   #15 
  - McConnell's offer, however, is not free of strings. There is some pretty damaging fine print.  jtown1123   Jul-14-11 01:35 PM   #17 
  - Definitely  loyalsister   Jul-16-11 06:47 PM   #52 
  - It's not even chess. It's dealing w/ 2 year olds who say "no" to anything you tell them has to be  KittyWampus   Jul-14-11 02:24 PM   #19 
  - Yep  loyalsister   Jul-16-11 06:51 PM   #53 
  - Perfect analysis. This gambit holds true in some court cases as well.  DevonRex   Jul-14-11 02:29 PM   #21 
  - are  sweetapogee   Jul-14-11 02:44 PM   #23 
  - This isn't even good theatre...this is bullshit on toast.  russspeakeasy   Jul-14-11 04:54 PM   #25 
  - The view that Obama has been bluffing  Vattel   Jul-15-11 08:51 AM   #27 
  - Do you really think  Cherchez la Femme   Jul-15-11 01:24 PM   #28 
  - There was absolutely no chance that they would accept his offer  scheming daemons   Jul-15-11 01:37 PM   #32 
  - Oh baloney.  Cherchez la Femme   Jul-15-11 02:01 PM   #39 
     - Everything the GOP has done the past 3 years  scheming daemons   Jul-15-11 02:09 PM   #42 
        - To pass up a plum  Cherchez la Femme   Jul-15-11 02:56 PM   #44 
           - if repigs were happy with him, they wouldnt be trying to defeat him  scheming daemons   Jul-15-11 08:38 PM   #47 
              - What?! Are you serious?  Cherchez la Femme   Jul-16-11 07:15 PM   #54 
  - Are you smarter than a 5th grader?  Major Hogwash   Jul-15-11 02:00 PM   #38 
     - Ah! So polite!  Cherchez la Femme   Jul-15-11 02:08 PM   #41 
     - Oh, & please do not forget  Cherchez la Femme   Jul-15-11 03:04 PM   #45 
  - What would happen if they accepted his offer?  Marrah_G   Jul-15-11 01:31 PM   #29 
  - There was a 0% chance the GOP would ever accept any offer from Obama  scheming daemons   Jul-15-11 01:35 PM   #31 
  - Exactomundo!  JuniperLea   Jul-15-11 01:41 PM   #35 
  - No one knows that for sure until it is finished  Marrah_G   Jul-15-11 01:54 PM   #37 
     - I would be horrified if SS and Medicare were cut.... but I know they won't be  scheming daemons   Jul-15-11 02:02 PM   #40 
        - I really hope you are right.  Marrah_G   Jul-15-11 11:06 PM   #48 
  - This argument is getting weaker by the day...  JuniperLea   Jul-15-11 01:40 PM   #33 
  - You got the game wrong, but the sentiment right. Obama's playing poker, not chess.  scheming daemons   Jul-15-11 01:33 PM   #30 
  - Zactly  Major Hogwash   Jul-15-11 01:51 PM   #36 
  - If this is true...  Proles   Jul-15-11 02:13 PM   #43 
  - It depends on whether voters will ignore the ads that will run  mmonk   Jul-16-11 06:26 PM   #51 
  - You'd be surprised how many people under 50 think that is okay  loyalsister   Jul-16-11 07:23 PM   #55 
     - True but seniors are a swing vote.  mmonk   Jul-17-11 07:20 AM   #56 
  - "his debt-and-deficit policy actually reflected a shrewd, progressive, long-term strategic view"  pampango   Jul-17-11 07:26 AM   #57 
 

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