Skip to comments.
Rightward Tilt Leaves Obama With Party Rift
The New York Times ^
| July 30, 2011
| JACKIE CALMES
Posted on 07/31/2011 10:35:14 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
click here to read article
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20, 21-40, 41-60 last
To: Steel Wolf
ROFL!
...So where is MOM?
....that seems to be the question.
To: sheana
Thanks for reporting from the DU...
I prefer to not visit...glad you did though!
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; RightGeek; jimbo123
43
posted on
07/31/2011 12:14:56 PM PDT
by
thouworm
(.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I think Mom, to run with the metaphor, is the American electorate, who used to shower him with love and affection. Now they're getting impatient that he won't clean up his room, or do his homework, or eat his greens.
Of course, it's her fault that he's spoiled brat, but he's just a snotty kid, doing whatever he can get away with. ;-)
44
posted on
07/31/2011 12:16:11 PM PDT
by
Steel Wolf
("Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master." - Gaius Sallustius Crispus)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Entering a campaign that is shaping up as an epic clash over the parties’ divergent views on the size and role of the federal government, Republicans have changed the terms of the national debate.The last 9 words in that sentence are significant. Republicans have changed the terms of the national debate.
Thanks to principled Republican House members, unimpeded government growth and the insane national debt are becoming important issues to Americans. They never used to be, except to conservatives. That is a crucial change in American politics. Obama is toast and the left is sinking because they got what the wished for: a liberal (communist) president, liberal congress (2009-2011) and a brain-dead electorate. Americans got to see what liberalism looks like when implemented - and it isn't so attractive anymore. God works in mysterious ways.
45
posted on
07/31/2011 12:29:04 PM PDT
by
Jim Scott
( "Game On!" - Sarah Palin)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Just stumbled upon this on the net:
46
posted on
07/31/2011 12:32:48 PM PDT
by
Tanniker Smith
(I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
To: Jim Scott
“Thanks to principled Republican House members, unimpeded government growth and the insane national debt are becoming important issues to Americans.”
I think you mean principled Tea Party House members.
47
posted on
07/31/2011 12:38:34 PM PDT
by
freeangel
( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
“Moved rightward.” hell! If anything, it will be being expediently dragged from a previously held position. He remains the spawn of satan.
48
posted on
07/31/2011 12:59:46 PM PDT
by
RobinOfKingston
(The instinct toward liberalism is located in the part of the brain called the rectal lobe.)
To: ken21
I've heard several options from “Hilary!” One is IMF.
No love lost between Obama camp and Clinton camp. Their debates would be YouTube or Pay For View-could help out on debt/deficit.
49
posted on
07/31/2011 1:13:40 PM PDT
by
hummingbird
(Help keep Guam from tilting...still not tilting...)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Obama is the Antichrist and this is the beginning of the end.
To: Skip Ripley
That Independent suggested (Bernie SOMEONE said) that there should be another Dem for Obama to debate.
Sweet...I'd watch...heh, heh!
51
posted on
07/31/2011 1:21:51 PM PDT
by
hummingbird
(Help keep Guam from tilting...still not tilting...)
To: hummingbird
52
posted on
07/31/2011 1:24:50 PM PDT
by
curth
(Sarah Palin: THE Genuine Article - Accept No Cheap Imitation)
To: hummingbird
Don't know if he an “Independent” or just a JackAss.
Sorry if I got it wrong and I think I did!
53
posted on
07/31/2011 1:26:13 PM PDT
by
hummingbird
(Help keep Guam from tilting...still not tilting...)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
headline =
Øne big assed mooooochelle, America
54
posted on
07/31/2011 1:29:04 PM PDT
by
tomkat
(Sarah !)
To: ken21
They’d be crazy to think anyone they primaried him with would be more of a leftist than he would be in a second term. This story is just drivel to make some people think he’s not what he is—despite all the evidence.
To: ken21
To: Old Retired Army Guy
>>Am I the only guy who can predict the end of this? Deal will crash and burn and Obama will go on National TV<<
You're right on the money. Not sure if it will play out exactly as stated, but I do see O-bozo just salivating at the thought of using some sort of crazy extra-constitutional executive mandate.
He loves perverting the founding document. He sees the constitution as an obstacle. He will use this method to push his agenda.
That's how I read it.
To: indylindy
Rightward tilt my arse.Holy carp, I was just going to post something along the same lines............
:-)
58
posted on
07/31/2011 1:40:40 PM PDT
by
Lakeshark
(Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
To: Tanniker Smith; SierraWasp; SunkenCiv
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
This guy’s about as rightward as Maureen Dowd is a desirable, attractive female.
60
posted on
07/31/2011 1:51:29 PM PDT
by
DPMD
(~)
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20, 21-40, 41-60 last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson