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seafan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-26-09 09:24 AM Original message |
Fineman: Obama's pointless bipartisanship in the face of what amounts to a sitdown strike |
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msongs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-26-09 09:32 AM Response to Original message |
1. some people really want to be liked by people who hate them, thus giving haters power nt |
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bullwinkle428 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-27-09 12:15 PM Response to Reply #1 |
21. I employed that line of thinking for years, and then I grew up! |
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alllyingwhores (362 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-27-09 03:22 PM Response to Reply #1 |
27. BIPARTISANSHIP=STRAW MAN...and why in the F__K does everyone pretend otherwise??? |
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xchrom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-26-09 09:33 AM Response to Original message |
2. this'll be an interesting thread to keep track of. nt |
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Dawgs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-26-09 09:51 AM Response to Original message |
3. I think Obama's pursuit of Snowe's vote is to make sure that they get some sort of PO. |
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SoBascom (11 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-26-09 09:52 AM Response to Original message |
4. Is there a statue of Olympia in the Oval Office or what |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-26-09 10:03 AM Response to Original message |
5. Damn, I"m glad to hear him say this! I truly don't get it. Getting Snowe on board |
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seafan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-26-09 10:37 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. Sadly, the only practical solution was shoved off the table at the outset. Single Payer. |
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inna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-26-09 11:09 AM Response to Reply #7 |
9. I could not agree with you more. |
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chimpymustgo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-27-09 08:45 AM Response to Reply #7 |
18. Seafan, great post. Heartbreaking and disgusting, but true. |
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seafan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-27-09 12:41 PM Response to Reply #18 |
23. Thanks, chimpymustgo. I'm better today.... I think. n/t |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-28-09 01:43 AM Response to Reply #7 |
30. You are expressing my feelings exactly. |
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kaehele (77 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-28-09 03:40 PM Response to Reply #30 |
33. In the FWIW category . . . |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-28-09 04:53 PM Response to Reply #33 |
34. I would not criticize your belief in his nobility |
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kaehele (77 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-30-09 12:33 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. Compelling thoughts |
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Marr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-28-09 02:48 AM Response to Reply #5 |
31. Pursuing Snowe's support is just cover for selling *us* out to corporate interests. |
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Bitwit1234 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-26-09 10:15 AM Response to Original message |
6. Folks |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-26-09 11:11 AM Response to Reply #6 |
10. I don't really buy the Rahm is running the show argument |
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chimpymustgo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-27-09 01:03 PM Response to Reply #6 |
25. Rahm is the boss of Obama? |
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KoKo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-26-09 11:03 AM Response to Original message |
8. I think Digby nails it....from what I'm seeing of the process... |
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Nikki Stone1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-26-09 11:39 AM Response to Reply #8 |
11. I agree. |
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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-26-09 12:12 PM Response to Original message |
12. The digby piece is spot on. |
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Merlot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-26-09 11:49 PM Response to Original message |
13. Pursuing bipartisanship is what made the repubs dig in their heels |
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tomp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-27-09 08:04 AM Response to Reply #13 |
15. sure, but we still have a shitty public option.... |
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niceypoo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-27-09 11:44 AM Response to Reply #15 |
19. Reids bill is toothless |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-26-09 11:54 PM Response to Original message |
14. Recommend |
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Tippy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-27-09 08:37 AM Response to Original message |
16. In a perfect world ALL Americans would have had health K&R |
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Rudy Adams (42 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-27-09 08:38 AM Response to Original message |
17. Hell. I'LL rec that |
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xxqqqzme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-27-09 12:12 PM Response to Original message |
20. "...than dancing shoes made Tom DeLay Fred Astaire..." |
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Last Stand (379 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-27-09 12:25 PM Response to Original message |
22. They are LAUGHING at Obama and his little bipartisan fantasy. |
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wiggs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-27-09 12:44 PM Response to Original message |
24. It is my hope that he is making every effort to be bipartisan so that it is |
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Jakes Progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-27-09 02:31 PM Response to Original message |
26. The Fineman piece was polite; the Digby piece is too tragically true. |
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Time for change (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-27-09 04:35 PM Response to Original message |
28. Obama did promise a public option -- a much stronger one than we appear likely to get. |
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bertman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-27-09 10:48 PM Response to Original message |
29. There's a Bi-Partisanship Imbecile loose in the White House Strategy Room. Somebody |
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stevenleser (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-28-09 02:45 PM Response to Original message |
32. This should be periodically kicked to remind people |
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