Monday, June 29, 2009

Obama, They Want You to Fail

By Robert Parry
June 29, 2009

After last year’s elections, a Democratic operative told me that if the Democrats got to 59 seats in the Senate, it would be easy to peel off one or two Republicans to pass key legislation like serious health care reform. I was left wondering what political planet he'd been living on for the past three decades.

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2 comments:

James Young said...

"Democrats bend over backwards to be 'bipartisan.'"

To borrow a construction, after I read this, I was left wondering what political planet YOU'd been living on for the past three decades.

Mon Jun 29, 02:24:00 PM 2009
Anonymous said...

The twin problem is: Most demos in office want to be Republicans and we demos keep nominating them.LBJ scuttled his Presidency with a lied for war based on not wnating to be 'soft'. Kerry ran an awful loosing campaign as he tried to be a softer, cuddle bush. And Al Gore lost to the subpime five because he would not fight. Obama has slipped into the same mindset and it took him less than 1/2 year to set himself up as the Republican kick in the ass fall guy.

Tue Jun 30, 01:50:00 PM 2009

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