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2009-12-22 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Fred 2009-12-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Carter, pt II.

Step 1. Follow a disgraced and unpopular GOP admin.

Step 2. Come from nowhere, promise a "new politics" and build a coalition of afr-amers, unionized labor, white centrists, left-libs, women, and jews.

Step 3. Alienate white centrists, left-libs, jews.

Step 4. Pray for a bumbling, incoherent opponent from the left in your own party and hope that the public buys your smear of your GOP opponent as a dangerous reactionary.

The only thing missing from the Jimmah scenario is Obama-Rahma-Axelrod's determination to pander to unionized labor.

Slight problem: the US public in 2009 is adamantly against card check, the unions' agenda, and the explosion (more than doubled as % of GDP, to near-20%, in last 20 years) of state+local govt spending driven by the likes of the SEIU.

What's new is Barry's shameless coziness with his oligarchic buddies on Wall Street, whereas even Jimmah busted up cozy monopolies, deregulated the airlines, railroads and the trucking industry.

The GOP needs an anti-Wall Street, TR-style trustbusting reformer from the hinterland. Someone a lot smarter than Palin, a lot more ballsy and authentic than Romney and a lot steadier than McCain.

David Petraeus?

Posted by lex 2009-12-22 03:42|| 2009-12-22 03:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Obama has reached that level in 11 months

Racism. Has to be. Can't possibly be any other reason not to worship The ~~One~~ Zero.

Posted by Glenmore 2009-12-22 08:41|| 2009-12-22 08:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Racism: You must have read the sign that said-

"We are not Racists, we hate the White part of him too"

Posted by Jack Salami 2009-12-22 08:56|| 2009-12-22 08:56|| Front Page Top

#4 Lex, anyone who disagrees with the bicoastal areas about the need to funnel money away from real industries and towards their cities is "stupid" in their eyes.

It's code speak for "she's not the right class/caste."

(I gotta run, guys, I have to spend another day playing the Hospital Game).

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-12-22 10:39|| 2009-12-22 10:39|| Front Page Top

#5 Update folks .... IT'S -21!

Posted by BigEd 2009-12-22 14:25|| 2009-12-22 14:25|| Front Page Top

#6 As the lives of actual working Americans continue to erodes and crater as job losses continue, and finaicial hardship abounds, Demokrats in Washington continue to act as if money is everywhere, and bribery in the Senate is just the cost of doing business (so the citizens of Nebraska will be subsidized by the rest of us to buy a vote for their scialist wet-dream), something is happening in the homes of conservative Americans that I have never seen before. People are coming to see Washington as corrupt as Rome, and as oppressive, and faith in our way of government is failing. This is no small thing, not just the passion of the moment.
Belief and commitment in government and the justness of laws make our society work. Just as faith in government makes us all agree that those pieces of paper in our wallets mean something, have value. When we stop believing in them, or it, things fail, and they fail quickly. Washington is not listening to the American people, stunningly ignoring our will, and essentially becoming tyrannical. What follows will be the people not listening to Washington.
Listen to the commentators now, and you hear people talking about witholding taxes, civil disobedience, demonstrations..... these are not outraged students with the zeal of youth and ignorance, nor the have-nots, raging for government largesse. These are the backbone people, the solid middle class, the muscle and glue of the country. And they are not the conservatives of the coasts making hollow comment as they are again drowned out by their progressive neighbors. These are people in Indiana, Missouri, Nebraska, Alabama.... and they are PISSED in a way I have not seen.
In his first year in power, has Zero and the Demokrats hastened the unwinding of the Republic?

Posted by NoMoreBS 2009-12-22 17:12|| 2009-12-22 17:12|| Front Page Top

#7 ION GUAM PDN FORUMS THREADS > CORPORATE AMERICA MAY HAVE LOST ALL OF ITS INVESTMENTS; + FSM BANKS WILL FAIL SOON [ FSM = Federated States of Micronesia].

* BHARAT RAKSHAK > WSJ Artic > SOUTHEAST ASIA IS NOT FEELING THE ECONOMIC CRUNCH.

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