SCOREBOARD ! The Comeback Kid, Gettin’ It Done
Check this out, screencap from Yahoo! News a few minutes ago - -
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7 weeks ago, the Republicans took back the House, generating the mother of all disconnects, particularly on "our" side.
On the one hand, during those 7 weeks we had folks here and elsewhere screaming and howling about how the Republicans retaking the House (while the Democrats kept the Senate and -- ahem -- the White House) was the end of the world.
Meanwhile, this President has gotten the Congress - - including an increasing number of Republicans - - to:
[*] Extend unemployment benefits
[*] Reduce taxes for working and middle class Americans
[*] Essentially create a large new stimulus package
[*] Repeal Don’t Ask Don’t Tell
[*] Approve the START treaty with Russia
[*] Pass the 9/11 Health Care bill
In exchange the President gave the Republicans a temporary 2-year extension of tax cuts for the wealthy. And the only big thing the Republicans were able to block was DREAM.
Now, let's get serious. No matter how you look at it - - and no matter how loudly people scream and/or pound on their keyboards - - this is a fair deal that the President has won for the vast majority of the American people.
WAS IT WORTH IT ? I say emphatically : YES !
All of these things were seen as dead in the water after November 2.
The Republicans for nearly two years have said "no" to almost every single thing the President and the Democrats have tried to do.
On our side, we frequently talk about the need for the United States to sit down and talk with the likes of Iran, North Korea, Russia, etc.
Yet when then President sat down and got one hell of a "lame duck" session deal with GOP Senator Mitch McConnell, a shrieking chorus on our side acted as if he had unilaterally surrendered to Ahmadenijad.
Here and elsewhere we heard screaming, bellowing, hollering and shrieking the likes of which I haven’t heard in at least 12 years, which was the last time a parade of so-called Democrats lined up in droves to plunge knives deep into the backs of a Democratic president.
I have to say, the outright piles of putrid GARBAGE that was hurled at this President over the past 7 weeks, here and elsewhere (including on the front page here), was, is, and will be for a long time to come really really EMBARRASSING.
OTOH, credit where credit is due to those folks who have publicly said "hats off" to this President and so-called "lame duck" Congress.
This past week USA Today referred to this President as the "Comeback Kid." However, you still wouldn’t know it here after a two-month orgy of backstabbing Liberal Tea Party wannabes engaging in a sustained ragefest including hurling rhetorical feces at our President.
Comeback Kid ? As Betty White mashed up with LL Cool J might say, don't call it a comeback, this President has been there all along. In not quite 2 years he has signed Health Care Reform, saved the economy, saved the American auto industry, took huge steps to wind down the Iraq War, gave a historic speech to the Arab and Muslim world in Cairo, won a Nobel Peace Prize ( probably for that alone ) - - the list of fulfilled campaign promises is a mile long. All in less than 2 years. All while enduring a year of Tea Party screamers led by that idiot, Sarah Palin, and then during the past 7 weeks, an embarrassing chorus of criticism from so-called Democrats and so-called Progressives.
You know what ? The President won’t say it, and too many so-called Democrats won’t listen anyway, but visualize me now :
I am clapping - - yes I am, and very very loudly - - and now I am pointing my index finger and now I am using the one-word basketball analogy (look it up if you have to ) :
SCOREBOARD ! ! ! !