We finally figured it out. Barack Obama is only good when he is running for something.
He was a bad Senator until he ran for President and he made a bad President until he started running for re-election.
As all Democrats now know, the clarion call went out last week when President Obama decide that enough was enough and he had no more cheeks to turn. Immediately two things happened, one, he transformed back into the most formidable politician in the field and two, his fellow Democratic Party members in Washington got energized and started working to battle back the Tea/GOP Party.
Steny Hoyer (D-MD) the House Democratic Whip punked Republicans who were going to hold a vote on the extremely conservative Republican Study Committee budget, he decided to let the Republicans vote for the budget and the Democrats would vote ‘present’ ... thus ending the Republican Party and beginning the 2nd American Revolution. The Republicans ended up looking like the Keystone Cops trying to make a U-Turn… good comedy at the expense of the hypocrisy of the conservative movement.
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Speaking of the hypocrisy of the conservative movement, or should I say the stupidity of the conservative movement, we have Rick Santorum who for some unexplained reason is running for President with the campaign slogan “Fighting to make America America again.” based on the poem by Langston Hughes Let America Be America Again.
Poor Rick Santorum, he is an easy target, but remember, this is why Republicans can be so dangerous, this guy was a Untied States Senator from Pennsylvania taking Harris Wofford’s seat… so the deeper we can bury this guy the better off we all are.
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So the big question is will this be a watershed year in American politics when the Republicans in charge revealed what modern conservatives really stand for? We have Governors in Wisconsin, New Jersey and Ohio who are practically committing treason and hopefully ritual suicide at the same time taking on the middle and working class in America. We have a Congress that is out to dismantle the American safety net on every level: education, health, environmental, civil rights, all under attack and the only thing standing in their way is the ballot box (itself a weakened partner in American democracy) and We The People.
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