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kpete

(71,902 posts)
Wed May 23, 2012, 10:27 PM May 2012

Another Reason the Left Should Just Suck It Up


Another Reason the Left Should Just Suck It Up
By Charles P. Pierce
at 11:20AM

I have my differences with the president, Lord knows. I hope to continue to have them for the next four years. There are a number of reasons for this, primary among them the fact that I don't think I'd like the looks of the what's left of the executive bureaucracy when President Romneybot and Vice President Cabana Boy get through with it. And I don't want the Supreme Court moved so far to the right that it inconveniences people reading in the Library Of Congress down the block.

(By the way, did you notice that, the other night, Willard went to a fundraiser at Dick Cheney's house and pronounced that evil sack of flesh to be exactly what he's looking for in a veep? If we hadn't looked forward, and we'd "relitigated" the previous eight years just a tad — I want to hit Axelrod with a pie every time he says that — the president's campaign might could've made an issue of Romney's praise for a truly horrid man. Like I said, I have my differences.)

Case in point: a judge from the NLRB whacked Target around for engaging in tactics during a union election that would've embarrassed Vladimir Putin. Anybody want to guess how this all would've worked out under the Romney administration?

Thought so.

Of course, and here's my bow to what Robert Gibbs calls "the professional Left," if the administration hadn't taken a dive on the Employee Free Choice Act, Target wouldn't have been able to blackjack this election the way it did. Politics is hard


Read more: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/romney-cabinet-woes-9090975#ixzz1vkZO4KZn
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provis99

(13,062 posts)
1. Charles Pierce can kiss my complaining ass.
Wed May 23, 2012, 10:40 PM
May 2012

he's the type who'd tell you to shut up and be glad you're living in Franco's Spain, because after all, you could be in Nazi Germany instead.

quaker bill

(8,223 posts)
2. and your alternative is?
Wed May 23, 2012, 11:14 PM
May 2012

I actually think we need to make this President a success, for pretty much all the same reasons the RW wants to make him a failure, but the same reasons in the opposite direction. WE actually need to prove that someone near the center can run the country successfully. It is the only hope of electing someone we both might like better, at least in my lifetime.

 

provis99

(13,062 posts)
3. when he does something wrong, we should complain about it.
Wed May 23, 2012, 11:17 PM
May 2012

Pierce seems to think we should remain quiet like Good Little Germans.

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
7. Why should I and over 60 million people vote for you? Obama got 63.7 mil in 2008.
Thu May 24, 2012, 03:17 AM
May 2012
You sound like Romney without any platform, dude. No one has any idea what he'd do if elected... Not really.



I'm not unwilling to change my vote if the right man came along such as this one here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014126738#post15

quaker bill

(8,223 posts)
9. Perspective is required
Fri May 25, 2012, 07:36 AM
May 2012

We are far better off with a person who intends generally good and only gets part of it done, than we would be with a person who intends generally ill and only gets part of it done.

 

Marr

(20,317 posts)
12. The whole party, it seems.
Fri May 25, 2012, 11:00 AM
May 2012

That certainly seemed to be the philosophy under Bush Jr.

Just sit back and let do what they will because Wall Street and corporate America loves it, and once people are severely pissed about it all, you can say, "hey-- we're not those guys, at least".

 

rusty fender

(3,428 posts)
10. Obama once said that the U.S. is like a huge
Fri May 25, 2012, 10:47 AM
May 2012

ship and he hoped to steer it in the right direction given that the ship could barely be steered as it was. Besides admitting to not having the 'vision thing,' he had, before he was inaugurated, conceded defeat to the Bureaucracy and the status quo. In effect, he has only barely steered the U.S. away from immediately falling down a huge chasm.

Instead of being bold, his timidity and his good intentions have staved off our plunge down the chasm for now. That is a good thing, but it doesn't ultimately steer us away from our demise.

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