How Can We Prevail Upon the repukes To Stop This Bullshit?

[Mike 03]

Here we go again! Many of the thread here are written by people who have made the same observation: It is all too obvious that the "other side of the aisle" is not going to give President Obama even two fucking weeks' honeymoon.

I'm not sure if my reaction is very constructive: I've spent the last couple of days writing very angry emails.

Does anybody have any ideas how to nudge these stupid MF'ers in the direction of cooperating with our new President of the United States? What on earth can we do?

[lob1]

1. Yes, I suggest we take a page out of the republican play book

and send all the obstructionists a little envelope of white powder as a warning. I'm not serious, of course, but it might bring them around.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. The same happened in the 1930s

all I can counsel you is patience. They KNOW that when this works they can kiss white house for 40 years

They also know that when this works they will have to redo all that propaganda and they will have to fight not only New Deal I but also New Deal II

[gratuitous]

3. At the end of this contretemps, Obama should come out

After all this shouting is done, and the stimulus bill is passed, Obama should come out, and walk back through, step by step, every meeting, every compromise, every concession asked for and made. He should then talk about his efforts to budge the Republicans, and all the support the bill got from them (which will be none).

Then he should make the obvious point that Republicans are more interested in enhancing their political prospects than they are in helping the country. Considering it was Republican policies that put us in this mess in the first place, it should be apparent to everyone with two functioning brain cells that the Republicans don't give a tin shit about the country. Obama should say that he gave the GOP a place at the table and they promptly shit their drawers. They don't get another chance, and from here on, it will be the Democrats working out the country's future and trying to correct the mistakes and clean up the messes the Republicans left behind, and which they aren't willing to do anything about.

[Jack Sprat]

4. They are using taxcuts as a political wedge

Let's turn the argument around on them. Cut Defense spending where only war and death are the beneficiaries of those huge tax outlays.

Another huge revenue saver would be eliminating all tax exclusions and loopholes. Do you remember real estate agents urging you to buy all you can afford in a house for maximum tax write-off? Most of us have. It not only bloated the price of housing, but put people in mortgages beyond their needs or means.

If the Repubs believe tax cuts are always the answer, then why did they spend us into spiraling debt? We had 3 consecutive balanced budgets ending Clinton's terms of office. Just as tax reduction became a real possibility, the Repubs began deficit spending again. In other words, the Repubs do not have the upper hand in this debate over tax responsibility. Their reckless budgets led to this economic fix we're in. Consumer confidence was never higher than during the budget surplus years. Everyone felt good about the economy then, private and public.

[NV Whino]

5. Firing squad.

[TankLV]

6. Try herding cats - it's a lot easier and more likely to succeed...