Rofl White house gives in on Bush Tax cuts

[Crusade]

It's starting to make me laugh how much Obama disappoints liberals. He can't even be called a "centrist" at this point. I really want some kind of speech with him explaining it somehow. :lol:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/10/white-house-gives-in-on-bush-tax-cuts_n_781992.html#comments

[RadioRaheem84]

JESUS! How can this man keep pissing all over his base like this? Is he not worried about re-election?

I knew this guy was just a Clinton re-tread. As soon as he started filling his administration with Clintonistas and Clinton rejects, we were headed for change, if change means a change from 2004 to 1994.

The man irks me to no end. He is going to play it off as if he has some brilliant strategy here by playing with the tax code, but he is going to just totally cave in.

And the idiot Tea Bagger STILL, STILL call him a socialist. God Almighty, I am so fumed at the state of affairs.

We literally live in Orwell's 1984, no joke.

[Amphictyonis]

JESUS! How can this man keep pissing all over his base like this? Is he not worried about re-election?

I knew this guy was just a Clinton re-tread. As soon as he started filling his administration with Clintonistas and Clinton rejects, we were headed for change, if change means a change from 2004 to 1994.

The man irks me to no end. He is going to play it off as if he has some brilliant strategy here by playing with the tax code, but he is going to just totally cave in.

And the idiot Tea Bagger STILL, STILL call him a socialist. God Almighty, I am so fumed at the state of affairs.

We literally live in Orwell's 1984, no joke.

Don't be mad at Obama the neoliberal capitalist be mad at the countless millions of liberal idiots who eat up the 2007 campaign propaganda like crack heads with 1,000 dollars in their pockets. They may be running out of crack? It keeps going on up until last month? Probably even next year?

tCcGtite-XA


^ These are the people we should be confronting. The gatekeepers of liberal/progressive MEDIA.

[Communist]

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Thing is, this won't change anything. The so-called left (but let's just call them what they are, liberals) will continue to champion Obama and the Democrats. (Or 'critically support' them, anyway, LOL.)

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[Veg_Athei_Socialist]

Somehow I had a feeling this would happen.

[Crusade]

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Thing is, this won't change anything. The so-called left (but let's just call them what they are, liberals) will continue to champion Obama and the Democrats. (Or 'critically support' them, anyway, LOL.)

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Nah, liberals absolutely hate Democrats right now.

[GPDP]

This looks to me like the beginning of Obama's "triangulation" strategy, wherein he will try and "work with the Republicans" and compromise so as to not totally paralyze the government... but we all know it's gonna happen, and Republicans will just say "thanks for the bone, now kindly bend over so we can continue imposing our agenda and not letting any of yours go through."

[Communist]

Nah, liberals absolutely hate Democrats right now.
It's happened before...in fact, every Democratic administration since LBJ, at least. Carter's VP, Mondale, came *very* close to resigning due to the outrage of the liberal base, and the 1996 Democratic convention was a little tense early on due to Clinton's 'welfare reform'. There was quite a bit of outrage over that, but nothing changed.
The liberals always go right back to championing the Democrats.

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[Comrade Marxist Bro]

Don't be mad at Obama the neoliberal capitalist be mad at the countless millions of liberal idiots who eat up the 2007 campaign propaganda like crack heads with 1,000 dollars in their pockets. They may be running out of crack? It keeps going on up until last month? Probably even next year?

In other, somewhat related news today --



WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is increasingly emphasizing the idea that the United States will have forces in Afghanistan until at least the end of 2014. . . persuading the Afghans and the Taliban that there will be no significant American troop withdrawals next summer.

In a move away from President Obama's deadline of July 2011 for the start of an American drawdown from Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, all cited 2014 this week as the key date for handing over the defense of Afghanistan to the Afghans themselves. Implicit in their message, delivered at a security and diplomatic conference in Australia, was that the United States would be fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan for at least four more years.

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Michael O’Hanlon, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who was last in Afghanistan in September, said the 2014 date made sense, because the Afghan Army and the police were scheduled to increase their numbers to 350,000, their goal, by 2013.

“It is far enough away to allow lots to happen, yet it is still close enough to debunk the myth of an indefinite foreign occupation of the country,” Mr. O’Hanlon said.

But Mr. Gates has said that the United States will nonetheless be in Afghanistan for many more years to come.

(http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/11/world/asia/11military.html)

That's hope and change. Or liberals getting the president that they deserve.

[KC]

JESUS! How can this man keep pissing all over his base like this? Is he not worried about re-election?

He doesn't really have a choice. First, even if he wanted to end the tax cuts, he couldn't get congressional approval. Second, he isn't interested in starting a struggle on that scale with the situation as it is.

He's a politician, not an activist.

[Sosa]

He doesn't really have a choice. First, even if he wanted to end the tax cuts, he couldn't get congressional approval. Second, he isn't interested in starting a struggle on that scale with the situation as it is.

He's a politician, not an activist.

Bullshit. His party controls both chambers; The House of Rep and the Senate.

[Stephen Colbert]

Bullshit. His party controls both chambers; The House of Rep and the Senate.

Where have you been? :lol::lol::lol::lol:

[KC]

Bullshit. His party controls both chambers; The House of Rep and the Senate.First, the republicans control the House, and the Democrats have a measly 6 seat majority over the Republicans in the Senate.

Second, Parties aren't monolithic. You would see many centrist and right democrats voting against it, as many support the extension of the tax cuts.

Third, again, he is a politician, not an activist. That means that he is not interested in starting a political battle against the republicans. He is trying to avoid that.

[Sosa]

First, the republicans control the House, and the Democrats have a measly 6 seat majority over the Republicans in the Senate.

Second, Parties aren't monolithic. You would see many centrist and right democrats voting against it, as many support the extension of the tax cuts.

Third, again, he is a politician, not an activist. That means that he is not interested in starting a political battle against the republicans. He is trying to avoid that.

1. No they don't. Dems control the house until Jan 2011 and Dems control the senate by 9 seats until Jan 2011

2. As it stands now, He's just caving in to Republicans blowing gas and threatening to filibuster. He's the damn leader of the dems and should be able to have his party fall in line, just like Bush did even when his party did not control the congress

[La Peur Rouge]

Where have you been? :lol::lol::lol::lol:

Well, technically Sosa's right, the new congressmen don't take office until January of next year.

Not that it really matters.