I completely agree with you. If anything, Obama has been a huge step BACK - again, what I said during the '08 campaign (and I have been a vocal Obama critic from the beginning). His promises? Empty. Call them naive if you want, but I find it hard to believe that he didn't know precisely what he was doing, or that he was dumb enough to follow EVERYTHING somebody said to him, assuming that it would be true.
The C-SPAN thing? He's the President. I find it hard to believe that he can't say PUT THE HEALTH CARE STUFF, ALL OF IT, ON C-SPAN and somebody would say, "Uh, no, STFU." I think he'd gain massive points with the people of America for a step toward transparency and the fulfillment of a repeated campaign promise. The fact that the health care reform has been continuously pushed quickly, polls ignored, and transparency denied, not to mention the bonuses for wavering Democrats (Landrieu and Nelson specifically) to support the reform... that screams FISHY to me. Even if I agreed with the reform as stated, the procedure has been a disaster. There was an opinion letter in today's paper that the 60-vote majority should be ignored in the case of passing health care reform (I live in MA) - WHAT?! ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME?!?!?
My question is...looking at what he is doing and how he is doing it and all the bullshit he he said on the campaign trail...why would any Liberal still like him?
Pretty much this. One bad policy decision after another, support for one failed Democratic candidate after another. He's like the Midas touch, only he turns things to shit instead of gold. HOPENCHANGE couldn't save Deeds, Corzine, or Coakley. Let's hope he "helps" Reid and Pelosi in their re-election bids...
We actually have our governor (Deval Patrick, who campaigned in 2006 on the idea of ZOMG CHANGE and all that fun stuff - he's Obama Lite) saying that the people of MA want change, and he hasn't had the opportunity to really make change happen in the, oh, almost 4 years he's been governor, and that we should REALLY REALLY REALLY RE-ELECT HIM.
No, jackass. We don't NEED to reelect you for even more HOPENCHANGE. Personal social policy views and politics aside, we NEED a governor like Palin of Alaska or Perry of Texas. We NEED someone who, again - politics and social views aside - will take the shithole of Taxachusetts and make it ECONOMICALLY healthy. THAT is what we need - someone who isn't afraid to take the big ol' veto pen and trim the fat from the budget. We need someone to take the mess and, from the very beginning, show their ability to change the economy, starting at the top.
When WE lose our jobs, or money becomes tight, WE have to limit our spending and focus on the necessities. I'm sick of the pork projects, I'm sick of Porkulus, I'm sick of NYC Date Nights with Air Force One and ego-boosting trips to plead for the Olympics to be held in Chicago when unemployment is so high. Coakley said that she was "in touch" with the MA people - she called Schilling a Yankee player and made fun of Brown for standing outside Fenway shaking hands, while she was going to some big to-do union event in Washington and connecting with the bigwigs. Yes, Martha, I agree with you on one thing - the people of Massachusetts want change. Only, you're not it, as I hope we pointed out on Tuesday.
In the interest of full disclosure, I'm a fiscal conservative and, since becoming a mother, I'm pretty much a social conservative - although I think that the government should stay the eff out of a lot of the social conservative issues. I'm very much an Antonin Scalia-style social conservative.
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Date: 2010-01-22 03:31 pm (UTC)The C-SPAN thing? He's the President. I find it hard to believe that he can't say PUT THE HEALTH CARE STUFF, ALL OF IT, ON C-SPAN and somebody would say, "Uh, no, STFU." I think he'd gain massive points with the people of America for a step toward transparency and the fulfillment of a repeated campaign promise. The fact that the health care reform has been continuously pushed quickly, polls ignored, and transparency denied, not to mention the bonuses for wavering Democrats (Landrieu and Nelson specifically) to support the reform... that screams FISHY to me. Even if I agreed with the reform as stated, the procedure has been a disaster. There was an opinion letter in today's paper that the 60-vote majority should be ignored in the case of passing health care reform (I live in MA) - WHAT?! ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME?!?!?
My question is...looking at what he is doing and how he is doing it and all the bullshit he he said on the campaign trail...why would any Liberal still like him?
Pretty much this. One bad policy decision after another, support for one failed Democratic candidate after another. He's like the Midas touch, only he turns things to shit instead of gold. HOPENCHANGE couldn't save Deeds, Corzine, or Coakley. Let's hope he "helps" Reid and Pelosi in their re-election bids...
We actually have our governor (Deval Patrick, who campaigned in 2006 on the idea of ZOMG CHANGE and all that fun stuff - he's Obama Lite) saying that the people of MA want change, and he hasn't had the opportunity to really make change happen in the, oh, almost 4 years he's been governor, and that we should REALLY REALLY REALLY RE-ELECT HIM.
No, jackass. We don't NEED to reelect you for even more HOPENCHANGE. Personal social policy views and politics aside, we NEED a governor like Palin of Alaska or Perry of Texas. We NEED someone who, again - politics and social views aside - will take the shithole of Taxachusetts and make it ECONOMICALLY healthy. THAT is what we need - someone who isn't afraid to take the big ol' veto pen and trim the fat from the budget. We need someone to take the mess and, from the very beginning, show their ability to change the economy, starting at the top.
When WE lose our jobs, or money becomes tight, WE have to limit our spending and focus on the necessities. I'm sick of the pork projects, I'm sick of Porkulus, I'm sick of NYC Date Nights with Air Force One and ego-boosting trips to plead for the Olympics to be held in Chicago when unemployment is so high. Coakley said that she was "in touch" with the MA people - she called Schilling a Yankee player and made fun of Brown for standing outside Fenway shaking hands, while she was going to some big to-do union event in Washington and connecting with the bigwigs. Yes, Martha, I agree with you on one thing - the people of Massachusetts want change. Only, you're not it, as I hope we pointed out on Tuesday.
In the interest of full disclosure, I'm a fiscal conservative and, since becoming a mother, I'm pretty much a social conservative - although I think that the government should stay the eff out of a lot of the social conservative issues. I'm very much an Antonin Scalia-style social conservative.
/rant done