that's the ticket, he doesn't care....
he loathes / has extreme hatred for most normal Americans.
Posted on 12/24/2010 2:26:38 PM PST by neverdem
Obama's New Start
Republicans no longer have the wind at their backs.
Riding the lamest of ducks, President Obama just won the Triple Crown. He fulfilled (1) his most important economic priority, passage of Stimulus II, a.k.a. the tax-cut deal (the perfect pre-reelection fiscal sugar high — the piper gets paid in 2013 and beyond); (2) his most important social-policy objective, repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell”; and (3) his most cherished (achievable) foreign-policy goal, ratification of the New START treaty with Russia.
Politically, these are all synergistic. The bipartisan nature of the tax deal instantly repositioned Obama back to the center. And just when conventional wisdom decided the deal had caused irreparable alienation from his liberal base, Obama almost immediately won it back — by delivering one of the gay-rights movement’s most elusive and coveted breakthroughs.
The symbolism of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” repeal cannot be underestimated. It’s not just that for the civil-rights community, it represents a long-awaited extension of the historic arc — first blacks, then women, now gays. It was also Obama decisively transcending the triangulated trimming of Bill Clinton, who instituted “don’t ask, don’t tell” in the first place. Even more subtly and understatedly, the repeal represents the taming of the most conservative of the nation’s institutions, the military, by a movement historically among the most avant-garde. Whatever your views, that is a cultural landmark...
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And Mitt romney is NOT it!
Far from it!
He is ALMOST as bad as McCain...almost...
This being the case, he will probably get the nomination.
The GOP is great at stealing defeat from the jaws of victory.
There are some GREAT conservatives out there to chose from this time around.
That's because they are all government employees, and they all HAVE jobs.
Krauthammer sucks. He is a RINO at best and most likely just another elitist lib.
How does Krauthammer type? Doesn’t Obama’s belly block the keyboard?
I knew the Kraut was a shrink and favored gun grabbing, but I didn't know of any connection to Carter. I needed a thread to name the RINOs that defected on DADT and the New START treaty in comment# 1. I didn't realize how many RINOs were in the Senate. FWIW, here's an excerpt from Wikipedia:
P.S. A lot of "moderate" and "conservative" rats were elected to the Senate in 2006 and 2008. Watching them squirm in 2012 and 2014 for all the radical votes they casted in the 111th Congress should be interesting. All those rats voted for Obamacare, DADT, the New START treaty, Sotomayor and Kagan.
These votes all show why backing O’Donnell in DE wasn’t such a bad move, even though she lost in the end. Castle would have voted yes on all of these, just as the Maine twins did, just as Brown did, just as Murkowksi did, etc...
Pretty much on any major issue, Castle could not be counted on. All he’d do would be provide more bipartisan cover for Obama to look good. Even on SC votes, could we really count on Castle? Of course not.
Now, he would have voted for GOP leadership but that’s pretty much just a symbolic vote, it means nothing substantively.
In the end, as far as conservatism is concerned, Castle was not part of the solution. Now, O’Donnell had her own issues, and if that whole witch thing had coeout before the primary she never would have won and nobody would have endorsed her. And the GOP establishment piling on did not help. I think a solid conservative could have won in DE this year. But going forward, I think we’re better off without Castle.
There has to be a way to invite faithless GOP'ers to take a walk across the aisle where they belong.
Ben Nelson is the only 'Rat who's got an ACU rating anywhere near theirs: he's 44 (2009) vs. the Maine twins' identical 48's.
A few other GOP'ers like Dick Lugar consistently hang scores about 65-70. Those are the "moderates".
Most of the 'Rats east of the Mississippi consistently score 10-20 ACU or less. Many are zeroes, and I mean a LOT of them. Even western 'Rats like Max Baucus rarely vote with conservatives more than 20% of the time.
Something to think about.
It would be interesting to see whether, instead of scoring every significant vote, the ACU scored legislators on just the five or six really "killer" votes like DADT and the bank bailout bill. That would really show us who the Iscariots are, because then they couldn't use less-significant issues as camouflage votes.
Great thread (yeah I read every post). Thanks for the post/ping, neverdem. Thanks to all posters.
As for Chas., I cannot read or watch the guy anymore (ever since his analysis of the last McCain/Obama debate).
(I’ll just copy and paste my comments from another thread to weigh in)...
America’s FINEST...selfless individuals, the ONLY force in the history of civilization sworn to defend a Constitution backing an individual’s right to exist for HIS/HER own uncollectivized self...compromised by a “me” “me” agenda-driven collectivist, backed by a gang.
Woe is us.
Long live the republic.
Really? What did the conservatives win? We held the line on a couple of things, but Obama won big elsewhere. All movement was to the left.
When the left doesn't get all it wants, it's not a tie. It's a win for them, just not as big as they wanted.
The R-(stupid)-party needs to drop the idea that holding the line is a win. Getting rid of the EPA or the Dept of Ed would be a win. Paying a trillion dollar ransom (in wasteful spending) for the current tax rates is not a win, or even a tie. We lost, by $1,000,000,000,000.
Democrat = Socialism as fast as they can.
Republicans = Socialism as fast as they dare.
All politicians run for office with the idea they can fix “things”, which inevitably leads to loss of liberty and freedom.
Really?
Yes, really. It was a tie during the lame duck session. Stopping that trillion dollar omnibus spending bill was a big defeat for Obama, no matter what the MSM and Krauthammer say. He'd vowed to end those Bush "tax cuts for the rich" since his 2008 campaign. But his own party turned against him and he had to give up and cut a deal.
And Obama still had his huge majority in the House and almost in the Senate, but he couldn't find enough votes to support repeal of the "tax cuts for the rich" even in the House. And he failed to get the Dream Act passed,.
He won two with help from the predictable RINOs in the Senate. But considering the huge majorities the Dims still had, it's silly to pretend that the Republicans could have prevented him from any wins at all during the lame duck session.
And it will always be a fight to keep the RINOs from crossing the aisle at times. In the new Congress, those RINOs in the Senate will have lost most of their ability to join with the Dims and pass anything the bulk of the Republicans oppose.
And just what was it that made up that "trillion dollar ransom"?
that's the ticket, he doesn't care....
he loathes / has extreme hatred for most normal Americans.
I wonder, who anointed him (Charles Krauthammer) as a
"strong" conservative...the usual suspects (NYT et al)?...
I'm NOT saying' he's a CINO...it maybe just (another) case of "the smartest guy
in the crowd again" syndrome again?
So, even forgetting the ransom, he won some and we managed a tie on the rest (i.e. no change in the status quo). That’s hardly a tie overall. The line got moved left. He won.
With the huge majorities the Dims had still during the lame duck session, Obama saw many in his own party abandon him on the omnibus spending bill, the Dream Act, and he had to agree to allow all Bush tax rates to remain even for “the rich” to get any deal at all on unemployment benefits.
You still haven’t specified what was in that ransom. Not sure what you’re talking about.
The media has been spinning like crazy to make Obama look like a winner and you’re falling for it. A tie at best.
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