Obama's speed bumps: 'Crossroads'

END THE REPUBLICAN'S ABUSE OF THE FILIBUSTER!

Republicans play games with the filibuster, deliberately gumming up the legislative process in their effort to gain political advantage, and it needs to stop.

http://alternativetulsa.blogspot.com/2009/12/obstruction-gang-gop-abuses-filibuster.html

This is one roadblock I hope President Obama doesn't run into:
1933
"Alarmed by Roosevelt's plan to redistribute wealth from the rich to the poor, a group of millionaire businessmen, led by the Du Pont and J.P. Morgan empires, plans to overthrow Roosevelt with a military coup and install a fascist government modeled after Mussolini's regime in Italy. The businessmen try to recruit General Smedley Butler, promising him an army of 500,000, unlimited financial backing and generous media spin control. The plot is foiled when Butler reports it to Congress." Source: Wikipedia
Do you think the financiers of the present Republican-Libertarians, which include the Limbaughs, the Becks, the Robertsons or the O'Reallys, not to mention the tea-bagging goons, will go that far? Is there anyone out there, that doesn't think these rabid Republicans aren't capable of such undemocratic action, to protect their many Trillions of Dollars, they hoard !! Remember, if you don't know history, you are destined to repeat it. Beware of the Corporations, they can seize control of this nation, as if they haven't already, any time they want. Now that the hacks of the Supreme Court have given them free speech, they don't need to promise the " would-be terrorists ", ".. generous media spin control. " That is a given.
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.

This president cannot lead, he can only campaign. The Democrat Controlled Congress has done nothing in the three years they've held total power except gumming up the legislative process.

If the Democrats, who still have control of Congress, wish to accomplish something - anything, let them march straight to the head of class and take their votes!

Otherwise, you can over do it an have a fit if you want but only the Democrats are to blame! They have the power still and will do nothing positive with it.

One & out! end the Machines rule in 2012!

Plouffe is someone who really knows how to get things done.

Exhibit A: Nov. 4, 2008.

Obviously.

He and Axelrod.

They both should have been inside the WH from the beginning.

Reid is a weak reed. You'd think he was trying to pass women's suffrage or the Civil Rights Act instead of some health insurance bill.

Has the filibuster ever protected minority rights?

Has it ever helped the Dem party?

I can't think of any examples.

It has only served to benefit Replican party through their disproportionate representation in the Senate population-wise.

Maybe Prez will really set them back on their heels Wed. night and propose eliminating it or changing Senate rules.

Also of course doing somthing about that awful Sup Ct election law decision last week.

Office pool:

Which Replican is going to yell "you lie" this time?

You've got to be kidding. Attacking the filibuster now that Democrats can't invoke cloture? You guys are unbelievable...

Silly me.

Dems should just lie down on the ground on their backs and whimper "Don't step on me too hard..."

NOT.

OK, I know everyone was distracted one year ago by the fact the economy was in a tailspin toward a Depression....

Time to snap out of it, Dems.

Dysfunctional Dems in Congress.

Go back and see how the bad guys operated when they took over in Jan. 1995....

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You've got to be kidding. Attacking the filibuster now that Democrats can't invoke cloture? You guys are unbelievable...

Posted by: Fallon | January 25, 2010 4:34 PM
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Republicans haven't used the filibuster for anything other than to gum up the works of gov't now that they're in the minority. I haven't asked Glenn Beck yet, but I'm pretty sure if we gave him some truth serum even he'd tell you that the Founding Fathers wouldn't appove of that.

Gov't can't work when radical right wing Repugs are constantly abusing the filibuster because they're out of power, and they know it.

GOP sets record for most filibusters ever.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/09/gop-obstruction-has-shatt_n_105671.html
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WAHHHH!!! I'M A DUMMYCRAT, HEAR ME WHINE WAHHH!!!! WE HAVE THE MAJORITY IN THE HOUSE, THE SENATE, WE HAVE THE PRESIDENCY . . . . WAHHHH AND IT'S THE REPUBLICANS FAULT WE CAN GET ANYTHING DONE WAHHH. . . .
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COULDN'T BE THAT THE DEMS ARE INCOMPETENT AND THAT THEIR SOCIALIST OBAMUNISM POLICIES ARE REJECTED BY THE VAST MAJORITY OF AMERICANS, NO?

Here's one of the many reasons for the speed bumps:
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Stimulus Wasted and Most Americans Know It
by Greg Knapp

A new poll by CNN, shows that almost 75% of Americans believe the “stimulus” wasted most of our money. There’s more:
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63% of public thinks projects in plan were included for purely political reasons.
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21% of people in poll say nearly all the money in the stimulus has been wasted.
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Only 4% think that no stimulus dollars have been wasted.
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56% of the public opposes the stimulus
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Joe Klein says if you think like this you’re just Too Dumb to Thrive. Klein believes we should be thanking The One for our big tax cut. Hey, I’m always in favor of letting people keep more of their own money, but if you’re looking to stimulate the economy we are doing the wrong kinds of tax cuts. Klein also ignores all the tax increases The Big O has planned.

http://biggovernment.com/2010/01/25/stimulus-wasted-and-most-americans-know-it/

We see FITZ's order of tin-foil has arrived.

And Mr. Hyde Park speaks up "Go back and see how the bad guys operated when they took over in Jan. 1995...." Let's see what happened to this country when the GOP took control of Congress - balanced budgets in spite Clinton saying $200 Trillion deficits for as far as the eyes could see, welfare reform, capital gains tax cuts and a booming economy and stock market. While the GOP held the House for 12 years, the DJIA went from 3,834 to 12,463. Times were bad during those 12 years.

Go back and see how the bad guys operated when they took over in Jan. 1995....

Posted by: ornery | January 25, 2010 5:00 PM

Oh, you mean the LAST time the Congress actually did something FOR people. The contract with America got people off of welfare and decreased the number of people below the poverty line, how terrible. Now, if Rahm and Clinton had not outsourced millions of jobs to China and India, with NAFTA, there would be lots of jobs HERE. Maybe we should outsource the Congress to India, it would save us a ton of money.

Free to Lie,
You guys are really something. The twelve years the Pugs were in power we saw no attempt to fix health-care, immigration, stagnant wages. We did see attempts to privatize Social Security (thank god that failed), add a flag-burning amendment, employ the "nuclear option" on fillibusters, tell people when they can "pull the plug" on loved-ones, and to make "K Street" a self-serving loop for Pugs (golfing trip to Scotland optional).

Clinton pursues NAFTA, which was the laisse-faire Capitalists wet-dream (Clinton was center-right), a bill that a 132 Republicans in the House ( vs.102 Democrats), and 34 Republicans in the Senate (vs. 27 Democrats) voted for, and suddenly its all Clinton's fault that jobs were outsourced? That is hilarious, free to amuse, since that is exactly what Wallmart, Detroit, Wall St. and every big corporation that supports Pug policies clamored for.
I love the way you cherry pick, Free to be stupid. All the positive things from the Clinton years, job growth, wage increases, deficit reduction, stock market expansion you don't credit to Clinton, but to the obstructionist pugs. All the negative things, like Enron, the tech-bubble bursting, were all on Clinton.
Fast forward to the Bush Presidency and it's all on the Democrats in Congress, although they didn't control it till 2006. You people aren't even credible and you have no ideas, zero, zilch. You Pugs are a one-trick pony (tax-cuts for the rich), incapable of assuming any responsibility for your failed policies.

Posted by: dt☢ | January 25, 2010 9:34 PM

You are not talking to a someone that would vote for NAFTA. I didn't vote for Bush I. I don't agree with crossing the aisle to compromise. I am a conservative and a former liberal democrat. Democrats have controlled the agenda in this country for the majority of the last 40 years. You cry and whine every time you don't get the money for pet projects. You finally got your wet dream with Obama and the last election. This time you have gone way overboard and it's gonna come back and slap you in the butt. Wake up and quite being such a partisan hack.

HOW AMERICANS SEE NAFTA and what Obama lied about, what else is new....

Over half of U.S. voters think the North American Free Trade Agreement needs
to be renegotiated, according to a Rasmussen Reports telephone survey taken
just days before John McCain declared that NAFTA must be defended "without
equivocation in political debate."

The national survey taken Monday night finds that 56% of voters support
renegotiation while 39% say U.S. free trade agreements in general have directly impacted their families. Of that latter group, 73% say the impact has been a bad one, as opposed to 14% who say it was beneficial. (See toplines and crosstabs)

Only 16% of respondents favor NAFTA - a pact which came into being in 1994
and lowers nearly all trade barriers between the U.S., Canada and Mexico --
as is, with 28% undecided.

McCain's strong endorsement of NAFTA came in a speech in Ottawa today
(Friday), aimed at his Democratic opponent Barack Obama for wanting to
renegotiate it at the risk of damaging relations with Canada and Mexico.

Anticipating this criticism, Obama on Monday told a group in Flint, Michigan: “I have said before, and will say again, I believe in free trade. … But unlike George Bush and John McCain, I do not think that any trade agreement is a good trade agreement.”

Voters--in a separate Rasmussen Reports survey taken last week--seem to share Obama’s ambivalence. Thirty-four percent (34%) say free trade is good for the U.S. economy, but 36% say it is not. Thirteen percent (13%) say neither is true, and 18% are undecided. Republicans narrowly believe free trade is good (41% to 33%), Democrats narrowly believe it is bad, and unaffiliated voters are evenly divided. (See toplines and crosstabs)

At the same time, over half (54%) believe free trade agreements take jobs away from Americans, while only 23% believe U.S. jobs are created. Ten percent (10%) say neither, and 13% aren’t sure.

Perhaps most importantly, 71% say negotiation of trade agreements is important to them in terms of how they will vote. Only 20% say it is not important.

While economists continue to debate the merits of NAFTA and its impact on the U.S. economy, voters surveyed this week in every age group, income level, range of education and political category overwhelmingly believe it needs to be renegotiated.

YOU EVER HEAR OBAMA TALK ABOUT NAFTA?????? EVER? Just another campaign talking point. NAFTA HAS BEEN A DISASTER FOR THE US. I REALLY don't care who is responsible, I KNOW that republicans and democrats worked together to bring us this mess.

As an American, I want it repealed. Actually, I want FREE trade. NAFTA is NOT FREE trade. NAFTA and the other trade agreements are nothing but appeasements to China and India. We got NOTHING in return. NOTHING.

This is what is being floated around DC by the Liberals there. Bliam Bush more, more stimulus, raise taxes, and pushed through healthcare. Had they lost their minds. The best thing they can do no matter the party affiliation is get out of the way of the American people and let us fix the economy. That is usually who ends up fixing it anyway. Even the great depression was not fixed by all the programs that Roosevelt started, even now historians believe he may have prolonged it and if not for World War II it could have been even longer. But today Obama announces a freeze similar to the one enacted in 1937 that sent our unemployment back to 19%. A great man said "a person that does the same thing over and over again expecting different results is a classic case of insanity" by Einstein.

"END THE REPUBLICAN'S ABUSE OF THE FILIBUSTER!"----------------------------------------------------------------------You mean the Filibuster that the Democrats abused when Bush was president? Scott Brown signed his name "41" specificly to shut the Democrats far leftwing progressive agenda (takeover) down. Now why would ANY republican agree to get rid of something that their senate candidate in Mass. ran on and won to stop the Democrats (filibuster)? I wish Ozero would get out of campaign mode and acually act like a president.