10 Dec 10
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Republicans are too dogmatic and not grounded in realism.
Democrats are simply incapable of doing anything constructive.
President Obama has spent two years dithering between centrism and trying to be that guy he claimed to be during the campaign and has come down firmly on neither side.
I don't know who to blame more, but this is getting pathetic. 33% of federal spending is now deficit spending. All the wasteful "stimulus" spending has turned out to be misdirected and of marginal utility. Economic messages are mixed and ineffective. Our foreign policy is murky and virtually useless. We can't even keep Israelis and Palestinians at the table and handling of the Korea tension and relations with China and Russia is one comical blunder after another.
Someone talk me off the ledge.
Please.
10 Dec 10
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Originally posted by sh76If I had to start somewhere for a fix, I'd start with changing how the U.S. Senate operates. Most of its rules are just that: rules. They are not in the Constitution and they can be easily changed by Senators. Oh, except that they'll have to have some resolve to do that. If a million people marched on Washington and besieged the Capitol Building until Senators fundamentally changed their asininely ass-backward Rube Goldberg parliamentary procedures and rules, well, then perhaps the Republic would be able to move forward a smidge.
Republicans are too dogmatic and not grounded in realism.
Democrats are simply incapable of doing anything constructive.
President Obama has spent two years dithering between centrism and trying to be that guy he claimed to be during the campaign and has come down firmly on neither side.
I don't know who to blame more, but this is getting pathetic. 33% d Russia is one comical blunder after another.
Someone talk me off the ledge.
Please.
Step 2: growing a spine for Obama in a test tube.
10 Dec 10
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Originally posted by sh76You still think Obama is a great roll model for your kid ? 😉
Republicans are too dogmatic and not grounded in realism.
Democrats are simply incapable of doing anything constructive.
President Obama has spent two years dithering between centrism and trying to be that guy he claimed to be during the campaign and has come down firmly on neither side.
I don't know who to blame more, but this is getting pathetic. 33% d Russia is one comical blunder after another.
Someone talk me off the ledge.
Please.
10 Dec 10
Originally posted by sh76A man was hanging by a thin vine from a ledge. A tiger stared down at him from above; another tiger prowled and growled directly below. And then a field mouse started gnawing at the vine. As he was getting numb with despair, the man happened to notice a wild strawberry growing improbably out of the rocks near him. He stretched and stretched and stretched, until he could just reach out and pluck the strawberry. How unbelievably sweet that berry tasted!
Republicans are too dogmatic and not grounded in realism.
Democrats are simply incapable of doing anything constructive.
President Obama has spent two years dithering between centrism and trying to be that guy he claimed to be during the campaign and has come down firmly on neither side.
I don't know who to blame more, but this is getting pathetic. 33% ...[text shortened]... d Russia is one comical blunder after another.
Someone talk me off the ledge.
Please.
Yesterday I voted,
the day before I voiced my voice.
Tomorrow all may collapse!
But today, today…!
10 Dec 10
Originally posted by vistesdThe tiger infested habitat is the real world. The strawberry is the promise of socialistic utopia. Obama is the idiot who, ignoring reality, climbed down the vine to get it.
A man was hanging by a thin vine from a ledge. A tiger stared down at him from above; another tiger prowled and growled directly below. And then a field mouse started gnawing at the vine. As he was getting numb with despair, the man happened to notice a wild strawberry growing improbably out of the rocks near him. He stretched and stretched and stretche ...[text shortened]... rday I voted,
the day before I voiced my voice.
Tomorrow all may collapse!
But today, today…!
Tea Party is the mouse.
10 Dec 10
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Originally posted by SleepyguyLOL!! Nicely done, really. Or—
The tiger infested habitat is the real world. The strawberry is the promise of socialistic utopia. Obama is the idiot who, ignoring reality, climbed down the vine to get it.
Tea Party is the mouse.
The tiger-infested habitat is the real laissez-faire world.
The strawberry is the utopian promise of “the invisible hand”.
The idiot who climbed down the vine is a tea-partier.
The next economic crisis is the mouse!
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And here I was, just trying to kid Sh76 off the ledge! And the strawberry is just what you can do and enjoy today. (Also, in the old Zen parable, the man did not climb down the vine to get the strawberry, which he did not notice till after.) Nevertheless, by all means keep gnawing, until you get the predictable chaotic result…
10 Dec 10
Originally posted by sh76Why not take a leap of faith and jump?
Republicans are too dogmatic and not grounded in realism.
Democrats are simply incapable of doing anything constructive.
President Obama has spent two years dithering between centrism and trying to be that guy he claimed to be during the campaign and has come down firmly on neither side.
I don't know who to blame more, but this is getting pathetic. 33% ...[text shortened]... d Russia is one comical blunder after another.
Someone talk me off the ledge.
Please.
Welcome to the Tea Party!! 😀
10 Dec 10
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Originally posted by sh76But the government must continue deficit spending otherwise people would be dying in the streets!! 😲
I don't know who to blame more, but this is getting pathetic. 33% of federal spending is now deficit spending. All the wasteful "stimulus" spending has turned out to be misdirected and of marginal utility. Economic messages are mixed and ineffective. Our foreign policy is murky and virtually useless. We can't even keep Israelis and Palestinians at the table and ha ...[text shortened]... d Russia is one comical blunder after another.
Someone talk me off the ledge.
Please.[/b]
Also, why is the US in the middle of the Korean and Israeli affairs? Why not pick another sucker to be the go between? In fact, why not just let them handle it themselves?
As for the federal government, there is no arguement that it has become a failed institution. It is therefore, my suggestion that we return to federalism and allow states to govern themselves once again. in fact, one of the few responsibilities the federal government was given under the Constitution, namely immigration, is being ignored. Of course, you could say that the Dream Act is addressing it I suppose. Hilarious!!!
10 Dec 10
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Originally posted by sh76Don't go over the ledge. People have been betting against America for over 200 years. It will get better. As I've said before...this is the new normal. It will take years, and perhaps decades to fix this economy. Keep your financial house in order, and remember...Persistence pays.😏
Republicans are too dogmatic and not grounded in realism.
Democrats are simply incapable of doing anything constructive.
President Obama has spent two years dithering between centrism and trying to be that guy he claimed to be during the campaign and has come down firmly on neither side.
I don't know who to blame more, but this is getting pathetic. 33% d Russia is one comical blunder after another.
Someone talk me off the ledge.
Please.
11 Dec 10
Originally posted by whodeyWelcome to the Tea Party!! 😀
Why not take a leap of faith and jump?
Welcome to the Tea Party!! 😀
...where all you need is faith in Glenn Beck and enough gullibility to believe things will magically solve themselves once everybody starts talking about principles and what some dead people from centuries ago would have done in situation x.