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In reply to the discussion: the moment barack obama gave congress back its testicles [View all]MFrohike
(1,980 posts)26. Oh wow
If you ever wonder why people make wiseass remarks about "eleventh dimensional chess," it's threads like this one. If he's so brilliantly clever that he can outmaneuver Congress into becoming independent, while doing exactly what he wants, then what is the excuse for all the difficulty he's had in passing and implementing necessary legislation? What about the loss of the House in 2010? Was he perhaps preserving the GOP so we'd be spared the horrors of a one-party state?
A thread like this really undermines the entire "evil GOP obstructionist" defense that gets trotted out every time somebody points out that the president just might not be too far to the left. Seriously, how can obstructionism defeat a man who somehow is this good?
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how the fuck can you post "emoprog dudebros licking authoritarian Putin’s nethers"
frylock
Dec 2013
#39
And with good damned reason. Quit trying to hide behind rules when what you did is so much worse
DisgustipatedinCA
Dec 2013
#23
Thanks. I could tell from the "quiet period" after my post that it was being adjudicated.
DisgustipatedinCA
Dec 2013
#40
I wouldn't know about that. EarlG settled the matter, nothing to talk about, really:
freshwest
Dec 2013
#25
Sorry about Obama not going to war with Syria. I thought it was a good idea to not do it. Just sayin
freshwest
Dec 2013
#31
It wasn't. The British people lead the way once Cameron gave them an opening.
WowSeriously
Dec 2013
#41
Look, I'm all for the legalization of Pot but maybe we shouldn't post things written by someone that
progressoid
Dec 2013
#48