I am SO glad we are dragging our feet on EVERYTHING and then the repugs take over in 2010

[TwixVoy]

Damn I have to say for a party that controls the white house and congress and has a solid majority we sure pussy foot around don't we?

So far no major pieces of legislation that we REALLY NEED as a country have been passed. No Employee Free Choice Act. No health care reform. Nothing to stop outsourcing our jobs. (Oh but I hear Wall Street is pretty well off after we sent them so much cash our great grand kids will still be paying for it... we sure did that fast didn't we?)

WTF is the hold up? The longer we wait the more watered down everything gets. The more major reforms get killed off. Are we waiting until 2010 where we will chance the repubs get back control of congress and then not a damn thing will get done until 2012 at the earliest?

One thing is for sure... we might have slowed the economic nose dive we were in, but if we don't get on the ball FAST and start building up the middle and working classes we will be in for another crash within the next 1-2 years and it won't be pretty.

[leftstreet]

1. If the Repubs take over, will we get the antiwar movement back?

:shrug:

[proud patriot]

2. I'm working my ass off

x( feel very lonely battling these dimwits on facebook poll threads

see sigline

[ClayZ]

6. I gave up on facebook polls.

It made me so mad my blood pressure went up. And, with no health insurance....hahhahaha Really! F them! Several family members dropped me from their freinds list over my politics. F them too!

We are going to our local Health Care meeting with our Rep on Wednesday.

So I get to look to look the fools in the eye!

I am hoping Obama can throw the health care bill into the basket like it was from the center court left. Right over the heads of the screaming meemees! I have a feeling that is how he works.

I just keep posting healthcare stories from the news on FaceBook and leave the fools alone to fool each other.

[kevinbgoode]

8. Well, I have a scathingly brilliant idea. . .

You know, when they start their outbursts, just stay real calm. . .and when approaches you to get in your face, tell them how happy you are to see a group that is so very concerned about the out-of-control costs of health care.

Of course, they'll go into their scripted rant about the government bein' out of control, socialism, etc. . .

And then you can just nicely say..."well, we all DO know health care costs are out of control, right?" They'll likely admit that. . .perhaps suspiciously.

Well, tell them this: "Well, I think this country is so very lucky to have a group that is so dedicated to fighting to resolve this health care issue. You know, Blue Cross-Blue Shield just raised the "premiums" of two million more people (you can use any group and just make it up...that's one of their tactics)...will you be taking that Tea Party over to their next board meeting and letting them hear your frustration?"

I predict dead silence.

[ClayZ]

10. Brilliant!

I will memorize it. Thanks! I am also going to ask people, "who in this room do you want NOT to have good health care, who in your family, your neighborhood, your town, your city, your state, and your COUNTRY?"

We heard our rep Rick Larsen did real well with the group in the next county up on Saturday.

Video here: http://uk.video.yahoo.com/watch/5711580

[Jennicut]

3. The GOP is screwed demographically right now and their #'s are not good

That is not to say that Dems cannot do more.

[kelly1mm]

4. There is another thread talking about the deficit going from $455

Billion under Bush in FY 2008 (a record) to 1.8 Trillion under Bush/President Obama in FY 2009. This does not portend well for Democrats in 2010 and/or President Obama in 2012.

[FrenchieCat]

7. So much bullshit, so little time!

[kelly1mm]

9. How is this BS? Do you dispute the numbers?

If not the money has to be paid back which will result in either massive spending cuts and/or massive tax increases. Or we could just print more money so that a loaf of bread cost $20.

[peacebird]

11. the numbers? No. But it is still bush's deficit caused by HIS wars and the financial collapse which

occured on BUSH's watch.

I don't fault Obama for the deficit, he inheritted this clusterf*ck.

[opihimoimoi]

5. The GOP is a Party of NO VISION other than their own shit....hence, their ways

of FOOLIN the Peeps no longer work as it once did...

Recent elections and events have done mega damage to their Brand name...

Craig, Ensign, Vitter, Bachmann, Bush, Cheney, Sanford, all add to the quagmire the GOP is in....

Having No Vision prevents them from solving shit...and if ya can't solve, git outta the WAY

[ixion]

12. I disagree....

they're using the same tactics that unscrupulous people have been using to control collective behavior for several thousand years.

And the majority of humans never seem to catch on.

[CrispyQ]

13. First they told us they needed a majority in the House.

Our votes gave them that majority. Then they told us they needed a majority in the Senate. Our votes gave them that majority. Then they told us they needed the White House. Our votes got them the White House. Then they told us we needed 60 votes. We worked hard with our friends in MN, contributing money for Al Franken's on going court battle for his rightful win & we got them the 60 votes they need. Now Harry Reid says that it is just '60 votes on paper.' :eyes:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/02/harry-reid-60-votes-doesn_n_224717.html

Harry Reid: 60 Votes Doesn't Mean Anything

“We have 60 votes on paper,” he told the New York Times on Thursday. “But we cannot bulldoze anybody; it doesn’t work that way. My caucus doesn’t allow it. And we have a very diverse group of senators philosophically. I am not this morning suddenly flexing my muscles.”
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No Senator Reid, those are our votes, the votes of We the People, telling congressional democrats that we want change! There's a big difference between Tom Delay bullying, showing some spine & being a complete jelly fish.
What the fuck more do you need from us, Senator? :banghead: