OBAMA TO RIGHT OF MCCAIN, VOLKER AND WALL STREET JOURNAL ON KEY FINANCIAL ISSUE

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/miles-mogulescu/why-is-obama-to-the-right_b_426808.html

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/31648.html

Democrats Seeking to Push Senate Health Bill Through House

“The White House and Democratic Congressional leaders,
scrambling for a backup plan to rescue their health care
legislation if Republicans win the special election in
Massachusetts on Tuesday, are preparing to ask House
Democrats to approve the Senate version of the bill, which
would send the measure directly to President Obama for his
signature.”

So now HCR is that pathetic Senate bill, with a promise to change it down the road. Well, I know that temporary measures have a very strange way of taking on a life of their own and becoming permanent. Again, we deserve the gov’t we have.
God, this is sickening.

The truth is, the President and Co. thought not having an ideological core and beliefs was in fact, a good thing. (Its not a red state, or blue state, but the United States…)

And his supporters trumpeted the idea. Other candidates were polarizing and partisan.

Well how did this post-partisan shtick work? I hate sounding like a broken record, but until he changes course, there are going to be a lot more Corzines, Deeds, and Coakleys

For four years DKos has promoted the election of Democrats, without much consideration of how these Dems would perform, or are performing, while in office.

Here is the purpose of the DKos site:
This is a Democratic blog, a partisan blog. One that recognizes that Democrats run from left to right on the ideological spectrum, and yet we’re all still in this fight together. We happily embrace centrists like NDN’s Simon Rosenberg and Howard Dean, conservatives like Martin Frost and Brad Carson, and liberals like John Kerry and Barack Obama. Liberal? Yeah, we’re around here and we’re proud. But it’s not a liberal blog. It’s a Democratic blog with one goal in mind: electoral victory.

And now that DKos and MyDD have got all these big-tent Dems elected to office, all those DINO’s, all those people in the Congress that share a 26% voter approval rate, and are over-rated at that, all those “electoral victories”, NOW when the cheese gets binding and there’s Dem trouble in blue, blue, blue Massachustts, NOW it’s up to Obama to deliver the electorasl votes?

What happened to the blog-driven people-powered takeover of the Democratic Party — is it now supposed to run on presidential power? Huh, Markos?

Uh…

There go them thar 60 votes. What did they do with it anyway? Not a single piece of major legislation was passed with it.

Agreed. The only thing I’d add, which is probably covered by “skilled opportunist,” is “talented campaigner.”

‘This race will be recalled for an occurrence in a recent TV debate when moderator David Gergen asked Brown about sitting in “Ted Kennedy’s seat.”
“With all due respect,” he said, “ it is not Ted Kennedy’s seat, it is not the Democrats’ seat, it is the people of Massachusetts’ seat.”’

I consider the Tea Party activists who hold up racists signs are likely racists.

If you read much here BluePupppy, you’ll know that many, including myself, are none too fond of Obama, nor was I fond of his sleazy, dishonest and cynical campaign. I don’t give a twit about Obama – I do care about the success of this country based on Democratic Principles that allows the working people to have a share in the wealth they produce and not have it hoarded by the few.

Personally, I don’t think Obama is a racist. I think he attended that church out of political expediency and gain. I think his pooor character allowed him to smear the Clintons for political gain. I do think he may be a homophobe.

I called him a Manchurian candidate during the primaries because I thought he presented himself as something that nothing in his history showed him to be – a man of the people. He is an elitist, corporatist, and skilled opportunist.

I want his presidency to succeed, if he acts on Democratic principles, for the sake of us all. Especially the 99% who’ve beeen funding the bank accounts and trust funds of the 1%.

There maybe a few racists among some loons at a Tea Party event. What I witnessed, outside of Olbermann smears, were decent people of every race who held signs regarding taxes, 2nd amendment rights, and the fact that their representatives didn’t read the $700 Billion porkulus bill — all reasonable objections.

Speaking of racism, Obama himself attended an explicitly racist church for 20 years and then he intentionally smeared both Clintons as racists.

So when I hear that Tea Party activists are racists (because they oppose Obama), I instantly detect a familiar smear campaign. You, Taylor, were smeared by Obama’s minions yourself.

Ted Kennedy’s seat may go to a Republican in MA, and many of your readers say Obama isn’t far left enough. This is actually a rejection of Obama’s extreme agenda and political tactics. People can deny it all they want, but it will be Scott Brown who has the last laugh.

“That is simply political malpractice and *not* Obama’s fault.”

Whether its his fault or not, he will be blamed. Moreover, that will be three places he tried to help, and three candidates went down — Deeds, Corzine, Coakley.

Appreciate the link. Inside it:

A DailyKos/Research 2000 poll released Monday painted a much tighter campaign, showing the race knotted at 48 percent each.

“We’re about to learn whether Obama can deliver electoral votes,” wrote DailyKos founder Markos Moulitsas on his Twitter page.

I disagree with Markos completely on this one. He and others expect Obama to perform a miracle. I’ve heard from very good sources that she didn’t even have much of a field campaign at all until just last week. Remember also that she took almost 4 weeks off after the primary. That is simply political malpractice and *not* Obama’s fault.

I use Tea Partiers or Tea Party activists, with “teabaggers” definitely a pejorative, which is why it’s used. I didn’t like it when Rachel Maddow used it either.

I’m hearing from Tea Party people who are disaffected voters for one reason are another. There are racists among them, absolutely, some who are Birthers and crazies. Their emails start off sane then end up in “Obama was born in Indonesia” land. That’s the trouble with revolts and party off-shoots.

If you don’t agree with your party it’s sometimes better to be a party of one, aka another lonely “independent” voter. I’m hearing from more Democrats every day who are heading that way.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/31621.html