Only in America is 40 seats in the senate a majority

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Saturday December 04, 2010 · 3:14 PM PST

2010/12/04 · 15:14

And the media just sort of accept the narrative. The media accepts the narrative that it would be foolish to try to pass tax cuts on just the middle class, for god sakes it only has 53/100 votes!

Seemingly, in this country, Republicans can set the agenda as the minority. They can get whatever they want, because they can block whatever they want to.

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Monday April 05, 2010 · 6:43 PM PDT

2010/04/05 · 18:43

The amount of Obama and Dem love by progressives STILL astounds me.

What has Obama really done since taking power? On issue after issue, he's gone against the progressive wishes and almost followed the neocon line verbatim.

This latest so called progressive achievement with health care wasn't progressive in the least. Wow, an expansion of privatized health insurance! Funny, it didn't sound as great when Mitt Romney enacted it or when Republicans introduced it 15 years ago. [And I'm not even saying the health care bill was that bad, but like on almost every other issue, progressives never get what we really asked for]

Afghanistan? More war you say? JOY. Tax cuts too, right? yep. Warrantless spying on citizens? You bet. Drill Baby Drill? Yessir. Habeas Corpus? Patriot Act? the list goes on and on and on.

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Thursday February 25, 2010 · 3:06 PM PST

2010/02/25 · 15:06

Before you dismiss me, consider this. If you know anything about politics, you'll know that the one thing that moves a politician more to listening to his/her base is a primary threat. Obama is free to ignore us progressives because he [believes] he has nothing to lose because of it - we need to show that his decisions have consequences politically.

What i'm saying is, its a win-win for us to do this. Either we succeed and we get a stronger progressive in the white house in 2012, or we fail, but Obama becomes more of a progressive president.

Names to consider for 2012: Anthony Weiner, Alan Grayson, Dennis Kucinich, Bernie Sanders, Russ Feingold, Howard Dean....

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Only in America is 40 seats in the senate a majority

Progressives are like the wife of an abusive husband who has convinced herself that he loves her

I never would've said this a year ago, but we need to start looking new Dem. Pres nominee in 2012