Posted on 08/04/2011 6:22:51 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
Progressives and other peeved supporters of President Obama who arent happy with the all-cuts-no-revenue deal to raise the debt ceiling need to see it as the beginning of a very long (and necessary) process to get the nations fiscal house in order. But it also means that the president will have to be more aggressive in his use of presidential power. In short, I want him to use everything the bully pulpit has to offer to get what he wants, including shutting down the government if he must. After what we just went through to avert economic catastrophe, padlocking Washington aint no big thing.
Ruth Marcus runs down all the opportunities Obama will have to take a stand.
The coming crisis points are manifold. The current spending deal the one reached on the brink of government shutdown expires in September. Extended unemployment benefits run out at the end of the year. The temporary cut in the payroll tax expires.
I like the way Marcus described the harrowing drama of the last few weeks. She decried it as part of the new normal here in Washington: endless rounds of legislative carjacking where ]o]ne side wanted the car, had a gun and wasnt afraid certainly not afraid enough to use it. The other had a child in the back seat.
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And the lazy ignorant sheeple who were not targeted let it happen.
They were dragged out of their towns by furious GIs at gunpoint to bury the results of them being the enables of pure evil.
“I’d like to add that Keyser Soze was also a low level drug dealer, raised a Muslim and hellbent on revenge.”
So true, not to mention a very shameless and smooth liar who literally would (and did) say whatever he needed to say to get what he wanted out of a situation. He was extraordinarily adept at making things up as he went along to the point that he had seasoned investigators (who should have known better) totally buying his fabricated BS.
Hey, asshat! The only thing the bully pulpit offers is a louder voice than anyone else's.
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