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Dems' deflated dreams
The New York Post ^ | 12/182010 | Editorial

Posted on 12/18/2010 11:04:30 AM PST by Lakeshark

Scarcely two years ago, the Democratic Party was in the driver's seat.

Or so it seemed.

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/dems_deflated_dreams_Y3SeDJ6HOQrV4GANQfkWGM#ixzz18UTjPWOr

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bust; democrats; dreamsgone; obama
And a merry Christmas to all! It's lovely to contemplate democrat dreams being shattered.
1 posted on 12/18/2010 11:04:33 AM PST by Lakeshark
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To: Lakeshark

These people get Obamacare, a massive “stimulus” a/k/a union handout, a seven year drilling moratorium, repeal of DADT, FinReg, etc., etc....and all they’re doing today is whining about the DREAM Act not going forward.


2 posted on 12/18/2010 11:14:29 AM PST by Qbert
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To: All
From the article:

Who'd have thought that, 24 months later, Obama would be signing an extension of the Bush-era tax cuts that he had demonized in 2008 -- and spinning the humiliation as a win?

Who could have imagined that -- despite still controlling Congress -- Democrats would be forced to yank a $1.1 trillion pork-laden spending bill off the Senate floor?

Such lovely thoughts.......

3 posted on 12/18/2010 11:15:46 AM PST by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: Qbert

“These people get Obamacare, a massive “stimulus” a/k/a union handout, a seven year drilling moratorium, repeal of DADT, FinReg, etc., etc....and all they’re doing today is whining about the DREAM Act not going forward.”

In two years, the radical progressives have done more to damage our nation than any other two years I recall—and I’ve been politically aware since Eisenhower. Possibly LBJ’s two years after ‘64 were as bad.

To their credit, an overwhelmingly minority of R’s have (even over the objections of many of their colleagues) managed to block a few of the worse ideas Nancy and Harry brought to the table.

Overall, the past two years have been a disaster. Leftists who can’t see that are almost insanely stupid. They have just had two of the most successful years any leftists in any nation have ever had.


4 posted on 12/18/2010 11:30:16 AM PST by ModelBreaker
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To: Lakeshark

It’s turning out to be quite a good Christmas after all..


5 posted on 12/18/2010 11:32:44 AM PST by snuffy smiff (always knew the arrogant little jug-eared bastard would be a failure...)
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To: Lakeshark
"So what the hell happened?"

America saved herself.

One of the greatest aspects about being American: our seemingly inexaustible ability to right the ship when we really need it.

We're not out of the woods yet, but we're getting there.

6 posted on 12/18/2010 11:44:28 AM PST by Senator Goldwater
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To: Senator Goldwater

We must get rid of the six RINO’s who voted to repeal DADT.


7 posted on 12/18/2010 11:53:58 AM PST by charlie72
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To: Lakeshark

Hell, they have gotten just about everything they want, they’ve spent us into oblivion and they are still wringing their hands and whining about crap.

If the Conservatives passed as much of their agenda in two years as the Commies have, the left would be rioting in the streets.


8 posted on 12/18/2010 12:20:05 PM PST by hattend (The meaning of the 2010 election was rebuke, reject, and repeal. - Sarah Palin)
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To: charlie72

“We must get rid of the six RINO’s who voted to repeal DADT.”

Sorry, but I’ll keep Brown. Nobody more conservative can be elected in Massachusetts. He is very strong on immigration, healthcare and the war on terror. He was firm against DREAM.


9 posted on 12/18/2010 12:42:46 PM PST by nbenyo
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To: Lakeshark

With the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Squeal Like A Pig have we hit bottom yet?


10 posted on 12/18/2010 1:45:36 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

Nope, we need the hyperinflation that has been predicted for years to start.

Well, “need” is kind of harsh. we don’t “need” it. But people won’t really get roused from in front of their TVs until it cost $20 for a loaf of bread (or a cup of latte)


11 posted on 12/18/2010 1:53:46 PM PST by hattend (The meaning of the 2010 election was rebuke, reject, and repeal. - Sarah Palin)
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To: hattend

“...the left would be rioting in the streets....”

HOw true, how depressingly true.


12 posted on 12/18/2010 4:21:41 PM PST by ripley
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To: Lakeshark

“Dems’ Deflated Dreams”

or “Scu*bags Without Total Power”


13 posted on 12/18/2010 6:00:50 PM PST by ripley
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To: Lakeshark
My, my, has it been 40 years already?

I guess it's true--time flies when you're having fun (/snix).

14 posted on 12/19/2010 11:16:21 AM PST by Liz
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Obama’s campaign was calculatedly designed to dupe Americans. Remember that his campaign media person Anita Dunn admitted on broadcast TV that the Obama team manipulated the voters.

Dunn actually said they did not allow Obama to be interviewed that THEY, and THEY alone, decided what voters would hear about the candidate, Connivers Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod had Marxist Obama telling voters “ I want to be another Reagan.”

The closest thing to the real Obama was the Joe Plumber exchange when Obama said he wanted to redistribute the income-—a classic Marxist phrase. Unfortunately, his opponent McCain was too dumb to capitalize on this.

The scariest words a presdent-elect ever spoke was when president-elect Obama told cheering crowds “we are hours away from fundamentally changing America.”

No one but Obama, and his team, knew what that meant.

We soon learned.


15 posted on 12/19/2010 11:18:36 AM PST by Liz
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Last year's DNC "holiday" card.

This year's DNC "holiday" card.


16 posted on 12/19/2010 11:28:31 AM PST by Liz
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To: AdmSmith; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; Delacon; ...

"It's all about the spin, boys!" Thanks Lakeshark.
17 posted on 12/19/2010 4:08:45 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: Lakeshark
And a merry Christmas to all!

A very Merry Christmas to you, and a Happy New Year, too! Thank you for posting this.

18 posted on 12/19/2010 5:39:58 PM PST by Miss_Meyet (Yeah, I'll admit it, I really do miss GWB.)
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To: Liz
My, my, has it been 40 years already?
I guess it's true--time flies when you're having fun (/snix).

....it only seems so.


19 posted on 12/19/2010 9:39:54 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (Imam Zer0: DeathCARE, Is my only "health" plan....to hell w/ free enterprise system :^)
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To: Liz; All
OH!....and have a Merry Christmas....
and a Happy New Year! :)

and none of that (liberal / mind-numbing) Happy Holiday.

20 posted on 12/19/2010 9:46:09 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (Imam Zer0: DeathCARE, Is my only "health" plan....to hell w/ free enterprise system :^)
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