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In reply to the discussion: "If You Don't Want to be Reminded of an Unpleasant Reality, Don't Ask to be Reminded" [View all]The Doctor.
(17,266 posts)122. That shows a particular ignorance of the facts.
Mainly that Republicans were all too willing to use the filibuster to stop anything Obama wanted. Without a super-majority in both houses, guess what the Democrats had to do...
compromise.
Now if only they would sink to the level of Republicans. Right?
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"If You Don't Want to be Reminded of an Unpleasant Reality, Don't Ask to be Reminded" [View all]
The Doctor.
Dec 2011
OP
To block Bush legislation is not 'sinking to Republican levels' it is standing up against
sabrina 1
Dec 2011
#194
The 'fact' is after Obama took office dems had a filibuster-proof majority in Senate only SHORT time
Tx4obama
Dec 2011
#149
Wrong - much major legislation in the last several decades sidestepped the filibuster
eomer
Dec 2011
#172
Tax the wealthy, make the tax cut on the middle class permanent, and create a public option.
eomer
Dec 2011
#197
But a bill can only get into 'reconciliation' after the bill's been on the senate floor
Tx4obama
Dec 2011
#200
Here's a link to the new list of the emoticons, in case you don't have it already
Tx4obama
Dec 2011
#211
Or we can have both, where we have the PATRIOT Act and nuts are free to own guns
Doctor_J
Dec 2011
#133
Maybe there is a reason that so many Democratic websites are critical of Obama.
JDPriestly
Dec 2011
#99
Well, this is pretty much the most vicious "Democratic" website I've seen when it comes to BHO.
MADem
Dec 2011
#138
I was trying to find it via Google, but no official reports, so I thought maybe you might know.
gateley
Dec 2011
#37
And yet another person can't be bothered to READ the post they're responding to.
The Doctor.
Dec 2011
#64
So if you were faced with the choice of voting for one of two Fascists, which would you
JDPriestly
Dec 2011
#102
For the record, I won't be voting 'for' Obama, I'll be voting 'against' that evil
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2011
#10
Yet you have no real proof of that beyond the fact that he had to get past Republican obstruction.
The Doctor.
Dec 2011
#58
Yep, he preemptively caved his way right on by that Republican "obstruction."
a simple pattern
Dec 2011
#62
A quick glance turned up the usual "whine", "outrage" and "righteous indignation" talking points.
Bonobo
Dec 2011
#32
Well, I'm fairly confident that most Either/Or scenarios we're presented with...
LanternWaste
Dec 2011
#50
I don't think it's my confidence that's misplaced-- merely the prognostications of the few.
LanternWaste
Dec 2011
#74
Did a search - couldn't find anyone asking you to tell them how to vote.
kenny blankenship
Dec 2011
#54
K&R. It's entertaining to watch The Doctor. surgically dismiss non sequiturs.
great white snark
Dec 2011
#71
Unfair! Unfair!! Yer being logical! That's oppressive to non-logic. Isn't that a TOS violation?
TygrBright
Dec 2011
#73
I still have the quaint notion that my vote belongs to me. Not the party or any politician.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Dec 2011
#75
You have chosen to ignore that some of the most ardent bashing of Dems has come from
Doctor_J
Dec 2011
#120
if a Republican becomes president THEN people will regain perspective!!
StarsInHerHair
Dec 2011
#145
It is not authoritarian to tell people what your own choices are and expect them to
patrice
Dec 2011
#139
Especially when they don't know the diiference between "ambivalent" and "ambiguous"!
Zhade
Dec 2011
#210
I am a Democrat who believes we can wear our big boy pants and handle a little criticism.
Dustlawyer
Dec 2011
#179