Isn't Whole Point Being Pres Control House & Senate To Man Up & Make These Tough Decisions

[SLSmith]

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Jake Tapper ABC with Robert Gibbs - 2011 Fiscal Budget

In another attempt to rein in the deficit, Obama plans to create a commission by executive order that would make recommendations on how to reduce the deficit. The commission would make its recommendations after the November congressional elections and before the end of the year.

[theFrankFactor]

1. Perfect Question, SHIT ANSWER!

We are being punk'd!

[onpatrol98]

2. LOL

Yep...I always hated that whole....boo, hoo, hoo...the republicans won't let us do it. That was a bunch of cover. I was royally shocked that people actually bought that. We had the White House, Senate (60 votes), and the Congress. Give me a break. A republican isn't even a speed bump with those numbers.

I feel like we allowed them to "punk" us, while we were weeping about "the party of No" and "obstructionists" republicans. Talk about throwing a rock and hiding your hand. It was like the twilight zone. Weird. Almost like they were afraid of all the power, and need republicans to hold their hands or share the blame if things went wrong. I just don't understand why our democratic leaders didn't want to do the things they said they were going to do. Maybe it was the blue dog...progressive thing, but, it wasn't republicans. Republicans didn't have enough power to tie their own shoes, until Massachusetts.

[SkyDaddy7]

3. I have said this since Nov 2008...

We never had a 60 seat majority in the Senate! Forget Lieberman you several Democratic Senators who are Republican Lite, at best...They are Democrats in name only.

There is no power Obama or the DNC could hold over them because you can't run Liberals against them they would lose!

The Republicans knew this going in and so did Obama...This is why single payer was never even considered and why a "strong" Public Option was never going to make it either.

It has nothing to do with Dems not using their power and everything to do with many of us thinking we had power we really don't!

The Republicans have forever changed the Senate...Now 60 votes will be the norm for everything.

[truedelphi]

4. It took the Powers that Be (And I include some Top Dem Names in that group)

Thirty years to have the Media become complicit mainly with the programs for the Powers that Be. Iam glad to say Jake asking a hard question. Sorry he is getting a "soft" answer from Gibbs.

but this type of question is the exception.

Walter Cronkite would have asked us to ask hard questions about the necessity of having 60 votes for any bills to be passed. So would Ed Murrow.

Those two would have torn apart Bernanke's statements to "Sixty Minutes" that Bernanke's digitized money policies would never affect tax payers...

They would have parsed both Candidate Obama and President Obama's statements that "Single Payer Universal Health Care is the best and most logical solution to the Health Care Crisis problem - IF YOU ARE STARTING FROM SCRATCH. But since we have a system in place, we must work within that system, and come up with a solution that is uniquely American."

Say what, Obama? Our health care system is in crisis and we need reform, but we have to insist that it is a style of reform that will not upset any of the Big Players in that system?

Where did that type of logic (or illogic) descend on you? (or did it come about when you carefully reviewed the hundreds of millions you received from the Big Medical Interests, including the Big Insurers?)