tommy isn't literate enough to do more than read a newsweek headline
-- a cautionary tale
I must remember should I ever be tempted (though I am not) not to swallow
bad cum apparently causes mad cow disease
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Mark <markmkahle@gmail.com> wrote:
Bruce, Tommy is stuck on Marx, Engels for his base ideology and he relies on the new idea man Ayers for dealing with modern times.... Same list as NoBama.
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Bruce Majors <majors.bruce@gmail.com> wrote:
--no tommietardmost of what government does is badstopping them from doing things and spending money is goodyou are too stupid to understand that, being illiterateif you spent some time reading a book, something by James Buchanan or Bryan Caplan for instanceand less time spamming airheaded fascist press releases you would know thatat your age I am sure you will die firstOn 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.
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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)
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>> 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
>>
>>
>>
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>> Have a great day,
>> Tommy
>>
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