I will dumb it down and make it real simple for ya.
Republicans and Libertarians would rather spend money killing people
than helping people.. simple as that.
On 1/6/11, Bruce Majors <majors.bruce@gmail.com> wrote:
> no tommietard
>
> most of what government does is bad
>
> stopping them from doing things and spending money is good
>
> you are too stupid to understand that, being illiterate
>
> if you spent some time reading a book, something by James Buchanan or Bryan
> Caplan for instance
>
> and less time spamming airheaded fascist press releases you would know that
>
> at your age I am sure you will die first
>
> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Tommy News <tommysnews@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> No, gridlock is bad, Brucie girl.
>>
>> It means that NOTHING gets accomplished.
>>
>> Stagnation and the status quo are bad.
>>
>> On 1/6/11, Bruce Majors <majors.bruce@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > gridlock is good Tomie
>> >
>> > it means nazis like you and your owners don't get to hurt people
>> >
>> > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Tommy News <tommysnews@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> The New Grand Obstructionist Tea Party Republican Congress
>> >> Begins....say hello to partisan gridlock, obstruction, investigations,
>> >> the demonization of Unions, legislation to harm the poor and working
>> >> class, efforts to make the President fail, and un-American bad
>> >> behavior for the next two years!
>> >>
>> >> Most of the Republicans in both the House and the Senate voted against
>> >> DADT repeal. I predict that they will now obstruct any further
>> >> Progressive and pro-LGBT legislation for as long as they hold control
>> >> of the House. We need to demonstrate and protest loudly.
>> >>
>> >> A polarized Congress in a US seeking pragmatism
>> >>
>> >> PHOTOS Previous Next
>> >> Outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. hands the gavel to the
>> >> new House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio during the first session of the
>> >> 112th Congress, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011, on Capitol Hill in
>> >> Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (Charles Dharapak - AP)
>> >>
>> >> House Speaker-desigante John Boehner of Ohio greets House members
>> >> during the first session of the 112th Congress, on Capitol Hill in
>> >> Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
>> >> (Charles Dharapak - AP)
>> >>
>> >> President Barack Obama pauses on the tarmac as he arrives at Andrews
>> >> Air Force Base, Md.,, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011, as he returned from
>> >> vacation in Hawaii. Col. Lee DePlao, commander of the 11th Wing, is
>> >> second from left. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) (Carolyn Kaster - AP)
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>> >> By LIZ SIDOTI
>> >> The Associated Press
>> >> Wednesday, January 5, 2011; 2:32 PM
>> >>
>> >> WASHINGTON -- There's an inherent conflict in the country's new
>> >> political reality: a much more polarized Congress must answer to an
>> >> increasingly powerful center of the electorate that abhors
>> >> partisanship or risk its wrath in 2012.
>> >>
>> >> Much like President Bill Clinton after his party's disastrous 1994
>> >> elections, President Barack Obama now has the chance to shift to the
>> >> middle as leaders on Capitol Hill struggle to strike a balance between
>> >> the desires of ideological purists in their ranks and the independent,
>> >> centrist voters who played a significant role in electing them.
>> >>
>> >> For Republicans and Democrats, that task began Wednesday when the new
>> >> Congress was sworn in; Republicans assumed control of the House and
>> >> padded their numbers in the Democratic-led Senate.
>> >>
>> >> "There's going to be politics. That's what happens in Washington. They
>> >> are going to play to their base for a certain period of time. But I'm
>> >> pretty confident that they're going to recognize that our job is to
>> >> govern . My hope is that John Boehner and Mitch McConnell will realize
>> >> that there will be plenty of time to campaign for 2012 in 2012," Obama
>> >> said this week about GOP leaders in the House and Senate, casting
>> >> himself as the compromiser in chief even while maneuvering for his
>> >> upcoming re-election.
>> >>
>> >> The president's tone was in stark contrast to his first two years when
>> >> he leveraged large Democratic majorities in Congress - and thwarted
>> >> Republicans - to enact sweeping laws, including an economic stimulus
>> >> measure and revamps of the health care and financial regulatory
>> >> systems, that independents greeted skeptically if not derisively.
>> >> After backing him heavily in his presidential bid, they punished him
>> >> in November by ending one-party rule in Washington.
>> >>
>> >> Now, with no serious Democratic primary challenger emerging to siphon
>> >> support from his liberal base, Obama already has begun moving to the
>> >> center. As 2010 ended, he compromised with Republicans to reach
>> >> bipartisan deals on tax cuts that paved the way for a rush of end of
>> >> year legislation, including repealing the ban on gays openly serving
>> >> in the military as well as a new nuclear treaty with Russia.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> It's clear the 2012 elections are in everyone's sights with obvious
>> >> objectives: Obama needs to win back middle-of-the-road voters, and
>> >> Republicans need to keep them happy, or at least not anger them.
>> >>
>> >> Their power was strongly felt in the last three elections. In 2006 and
>> >> 2008, independents furious with Republican governance gave Democrats
>> >> power in Congress and the White House. By 2010, these voters had grown
>> >> disillusioned by Democratic rule and sided with the GOP.
>> >>
>> >> And their sway is only growing.
>> >>
>> >> Today, more Americans are identifying themselves as independent while
>> >> majorities of the country view both the Democratic and Republican
>> >> parties unfavorably. Disaffected Republican and Democratic operatives
>> >> are forming groups to advocate on behalf of - if not organize -
>> >> unaffiliated voters, indicating that momentum may be building among
>> >> the center for increased political action.
>> >>
>> >> So, given all that, how did the Republican and Democratic caucuses in
>> >> Congress end up so much more conservative and liberal?
>> >>
>> >> The two-party American political system produces polarization in
>> >> Congress. Both the Republican and the Democratic parties hold
>> >> primaries to choose general election candidates. Those nominating
>> >> contests are dominated by the most vocal, active party members -
>> >> conservatives and liberals who tend to support like-minded people.
>> >>
>> >> Last year, that situation was even more pronounced as the tea party
>> >> coalition roiled GOP primaries and produced Republican nominees who
>> >> were far more conservative than usual.
>> >>
>> >> Now, the House Republican roster includes some seven dozen tea
>> >> party-backed lawmakers and other staunch conservatives. And moderate
>> >> "Blue Dog" Democrats are virtually extinct; scores lost their
>> >> swing-voting districts in a coast-to-coast GOP wave.
>> >>
>> >> "Compromise is a dirty word to the new members of Congress and a vital
>> >> word to the people they were sent to represent," said Matt Bennett, a
>> >> former Clinton aide and a vice president of the centrist Democratic
>> >> group Third Way. "It's a more polarized House representing an
>> >> electorate that is really seeking moderation. There's a big disconnect
>> >> between their caucuses and their voters."
>> >>
>> >> The Senate is arguably less polarized than the House; Democrats
>> >> succeeded in limiting the number of GOP takeaways to six. Still, new
>> >> Republican senators include tea party-supported Rand Paul of Kentucky
>> >> and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, as well as conservatives Pat Toomey of
>> >> Pennsylvania and Marco Rubio of Florida.
>> >>
>> >> From the outset, it's clear that Boehner is trying to strike a balance
>> >> between his constituents and his members.
>> >>
>> >> "This is the people's house. This is their Congress. It's about them,
>> >> not us," Boehner said after he took the gavel as speaker.
>> >>
>> >> Still, in a nod to his caucus' right flank, he scheduled a vote next
>> >> week on repealing the health care law. Republicans don't expect to
>> >> kill it. It makes sense for them not to; the GOP wants to run against
>> >> health care in 2012 and that important constituency - independents -
>> >> prefer that the law be changed, not repealed. House leaders facing
>> >> demands from the right to immediately cut spending also indicated they
>> >> wanted to cut $100 billion from the federal budget. But it didn't take
>> >> long before GOP leaders bowed to the reality of governing and scaled
>> >> back their goal.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Come February, during debate over a massive spending bill to keep the
>> >> government running, the country will see how successful Boehner has
>> >> been at keeping the right in line and how much Obama is willing to
>> >> compromise.
>> >>
>> >> The challenge for Boehner is to avoid what happened after the 1994
>> >> Republican Revolution when the GOP took control of Congress.
>> >>
>> >> Back then, House Speaker Newt Gingrich failed to keep his
>> >> rabble-rousing conservative warriors in line, leading to a government
>> >> shutdown. Clinton came out on top, and handily won re-election in
>> >> 1996.
>> >>
>> >> Obama already has signaled a desire to go the route of Clinton,
>> >> signaling a willingness to work with Republicans on several issues,
>> >> including trade deals with Colombia and Panama as well as the
>> >> reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind education act.
>> >>
>> >> On Day 1 of the new Congress, the fight for middle-of-the-road voters
>> >> was well under way. It won't end until November 2012.
>> >>
>> >> More:
>> >>
>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/05/AR2011010503216_2.html
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
>> >> Have a great day,
>> >> Tommy
>> >>
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>> Tommy
>>
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