Spill Is Plugged, UE Benefits Extended, Sherrod Got Apology, and Finance Reform Passed Into Law

[Yavin4]

Do you see the pattern here? Problems arise, and then they are handled. In the past 18 months, we've gone from the brink of total and complete economic collapse to slowly re-gaining growth. Last year, everyone was screaming that we should nationalize the banks and the auto industry, and now, both industries are back on their feet.

This is what competency looks like. In my field, IT, the best developers write programming code that's simple, elegant, and easy to use. Their code never requires 24/7 maintenance and patching. It's quiet. The best at what they do always make it look effortless.

That's not to say that things don't awry. Life happens. True competence handles and takes care of things when they do go awry.

[Beetwasher]

1. Dude, I Didn't Get MY FUCKING Apology And Obama STILL Hasn't Mowed My Fucking Lawn!

Seriously. WTF is that all about?

[monmouth]

10. And I didn't get invited to his birthday bash in August either. Got $30K????.LOL..n/t

[Tarheel_Dem]

11. Could it be that he is a "unstrong weakling", with "anti-strongness" tendencies?

:rofl:

[katandmoon]

2. And it all happened just like magic?! Bullshit. All that "achievement" was and is at untold ongoing

human, animal, and environmental cost and is very unlikely to end there.

[sandnsea]

Then you fix it

Nothing is stopping you if you've got all the answers.

[katandmoon]

14. The point is -- it's UNFIXABLE. SuperObamaMan can't fix it!

[vaberella]

5. I have to agree with sandandsea. If you can do better, then do it.

Please. You seem to know what's best. Why don't you run and do this?!

[impik]

9. Because then they'll have to get up from the computer, and who wants that?

[katandmoon]

16. After you!

[CakeGrrl]

13. No kidding. And while they're at it, SUGGEST the better alternative. n/t

[katandmoon]

15. I can't fix it and I never claimed I could and no one has ever claimed I could.

[Spazito]

17. I have to ask, then, if it is "not fixable" why do your posts consistently...

criticize the President and his Administration for everything they do, everything they haven't yet done, well, for everything?

If you have no solution to offer, why do you criticize those who continue to believe solutions can be found and are working to find them, I don't get it.

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[Spazito]

19. Wow, in one statement, you say it is NOT fixable....

and then go on a rant because Obama hasn't fixed it yet. You can't have it both ways.

It is clear from your posts, you never had any intention to give Obama a chance, your posts being severely critical from the when he was first inaugurated.

If you don't think it's fixable, fine, then stand aside while others find solutions you seem to be unable to even offer.

[stevenleser]

26. That is why that person is on my ignore list. Yes, I have a large ignore list, but that is because..

some people went batshit crazy when Obama was elected.

[Botany]

3. Don't forget Kagan, Sotomayor, out of Iraq in 1 month, real reduction in

nuclear weapons and plutonium, Health Care Reform ( :grr: ?? single payer ) equal pay for women,
and George Mitchell working on peace in the Mideast.

Dogs Know!

[vaberella]

6. Also Talks with the Taliban so we can get out of Afghanistan. n/t

[jaxx]

4. Well done.

It's been a busy few days, but the end results are good.

[impik]

7. Amen, brother. Or sister :) Amen.

[Llewlladdwr]

8. I wouldn't be braggin' about pluggin' the spill just yet.

As a Gulf Coast resident I'm not quite ready to believe this is over.

[cherokeeprogressive]

20. It's not over by any stretch of the imagination. But...

It's being added to the big list of Obama's accomplishments as we speak.

I haven't seen that list in a while, I guess it's time someone dragged it out again.

[Tarheel_Dem]

12. Rec. Not a bad week's work.

:kick:

[Sebastian Doyle]

21. Well, let's look at these one by one.....

Spill Is Plugged - Time will tell. I certainly hope so. Shouldn't have taken them three fucking months to get to that point


UE Benefits Extended - No argument on that one.


Sherrod Got Apology - Half assed and she didn't get her job back. She definitely should, and VilSuck needs to be fired, because this is more about his MonSatan whoring than it was about BratFart and a poorly edited video tape.



Finance Reform Passed Into Law - Debatable. It was deliberately neutered from what it should have been. Not by Repukes but by alleged "Democrats" like the retiring Chris Dodd, who is obviously setting up his own future employment. If Elizabeth Warren heads up this new psuedo-agency, that would appear to be a positive thing, but if any solutions she comes up with can be vetoed by the "Federal" Reserve, then what is the point?

I suppose the bright side is that it's not as useless as the false "health care" bill was.

[backscatter712]

22. I agree. For all the Beltway howling, it was a pretty good week.

Yes, Obama did screw up, but eventually did the right thing, and hopefully, Breitbart and his ilk will continue to be exposed as the subhuman sociopaths that they are...

[girl gone mad]

23. Well, I guess when you've got lemons you try to make lemonade.

I can't say that it's in good taste, though.

[uponit7771]

24. OMG!!!! I just thought the SAME EXACT THING 5 minutes ago! I am in IT also and the SAME THING...

...occurs; lack of appreciation of progress.

[DCBob]

25. Also many were screaming to nuke the oil gusher... Obama did not over-react...

and the "worst" enviromental disaster in US history now appears to be under control.

I am sure President McWar would have nuked it and the entire Gulf would be readioactive for the next 10,000 years.

[boppers]

27. But there's no fireworks! No screaming! No drama!

I'm in IT, as well (programming, sysad, dba, lan/man/wan, security, blah blah blah), and I measure my success level by other people not "needing" me. Stuff just works, and when it doesn't (or is slow, or hard), my job is to remove that problem.

[David Zephyr]

28. Thanks, Yavin4, for putting perspective on things.

I only wish I'd read this sooner to Recommend it.

:)