I’ve been collecting references to write a diary on the latest deal our President is attempting to broker with Republicans. Maybe it’s a done deal. Maybe it isn’t. Maybe it’s the best deal we could get. A diary written by the oldredneck best describes my own initial misgivings. This diary did not receive much attention. It was on the rescue list.
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My first reaction was disbelief and anger over the harsh words of President Obama. Why was it decided that dressing down the loyal troops required a press conference? My first reaction is best described in music.
"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss" The Who "Won’t Get Fooled Again" from 1971 (The Who live in New York video is below the lyrics
We'll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgment of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song
I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
And I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again
Change it had to come
We knew it all along
We were liberated from the fall that's all
But the world looks just the same
And history ain't changed
'Cause the banners, they all flown in the last war
I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
And I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again
No, no!
I'll move myself and my family aside
If we happen to be left half alive
I'll get all my papers and smile at the sky
For I know that the hypnotized never lie
Do ya?
There's nothing in the street
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Is now the parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight
I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again
No, no!
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss
I’m also researching an exclusive article on yahoo as part of holding my tongue. Does anyone know if the author is connected to the White House? I don’t know a lot about polling, and don’t know if the Allstate/National Journal Poll is a reliable indicator.
http://news.yahoo.com/...
Poll: Neither party knows how to get country moving again
By Ronald Brownstein
National Journal
As Republicans in Washington prepare to share power with Democrats, most Americans remain unconvinced that either party's agenda by itself will solve the nation's most pressing challenges, according to the latest Allstate/National Journal Heartland Monitor poll.
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Among independents, that sentiment was endemic. Just 10 percent of independents said they welcomed the GOP victory as an opportunity to roll back government, and only 18 percent said they feared it as a threat to Obama's programs. Fully 70 percent of independents said they believed that neither party's agenda alone could solve the country's problems. That big bloc divided between 39 percent of independents who were optimistic that the two sides might still work together effectively and 31 percent who were doubtful that they will cooperate to get much done. "When the Republicans were in control of Congress before, they didn't get us anywhere," said Valerie Juhasz, a production manager and an independent voter in Sylvania, Ohio, who responded to the poll. "People voted them back in because they weren't happy with the Democratic House, but I don't think we'll get any further with Republicans."
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Although Republicans in last month's election achieved the biggest House gains that either party has made in a midterm since 1938, the poll found little evidence that the public now wants the GOP to seize the rudder in setting policy. Asked who should take the lead on the major issues facing the country, those surveyed divided almost evenly, with 45 percent saying President Obama and 44 percent preferring congressional Republicans. On that question, independents also split almost evenly, but the results revealed a sharp and increasingly familiar racial divide. Whites looked to congressional Republicans by a solid 53 percent to 37 percent (the result among whites without a college education tilted even more toward Republicans). Two-thirds of minorities preferred Obama for the lead role.
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The latest Allstate/National Journal Heartland Monitor poll conducted by Ed Reilly and Brent McGoldrick of FD, a communications strategy consulting firm, surveyed 1,200 adults from November 29 through December 1. It has a margin of error of +/- 2.8 percentage points.
Scott Bland contributed.
For now, I’m staying out of any meta fights for or against the deal.
Peace, the floor is yours