tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post2769851588428629373..comments2024-03-28T10:49:14.510-05:00Comments on Horizons: President Obama's "common sense caucus" is workingNancy LeTourneauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12614317154146836694noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-6843638159630176422013-12-12T00:44:48.645-06:002013-12-12T00:44:48.645-06:00I'll check those out, sjterrid. Thnx.I'll check those out, sjterrid. Thnx.wileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10234314999465951053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-15631866768255984062013-12-11T22:37:23.936-06:002013-12-11T22:37:23.936-06:00I love your comment, and I agree with it. Other t...I love your comment, and I agree with it. Other than Smartypants, I would recommend two sites The Obama Diary and The People's view that both highlight the great work the President and his administrations are doing and have accomplished, that you won't hear from the Corporate Media. <br /><br /><br /><br />t sjterridnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-91723283975927792492013-12-11T15:26:07.368-06:002013-12-11T15:26:07.368-06:00Any step forward is success. That so many people b...Any step forward is success. That so many people believe that this one man could turn the country around suggests that too many people don't understand representative democracy, much less presidential authority and how the three branches of government are supposed to work. Because so many people don't understand what the responsibilities of Congress are, they are judging past presidents by their Congresses and insisting that those presidents who got liberal legislation passed had some kind of mojo instead of a Democratic majority in both houses of Congress.<br /><br />My former sanctuary of liberal fellowship---- a blog--- is now a rag with comments full of firebaggers so I'm out of there. It's getting increasingly difficult to find places where the idea that President Obama is a competent and sincere leader is the norm. It's discouraging and foreboding. <br /><br />We might not get to save unemployment benefits this go around, but I trust Obama will do what he can to save them; if not, it will just be because the deck is stacked too hard against him, which is easy in a political climate in which there is so little public support for him among pundits and a non-stop yellow screed against him from "journalists". I'm beginning to wonder if presidential historians are going to tell the actual story of his presidency. <br /><br />White supremism and misogyny appear to be winning right now because so many liberals don't understand how government works and appear to want the POTUS to be a man they can put on the magical totem pole in their heads that has everything to do with their feelings of entitlement and vague ideals, and nothing to do with how government actually works. At this point, the most red-neck, gun loving, evolution denying, misogynist, racist, moronic Republican voters are smarter than a whole lot of college educated liberals because they're smart enough to vote in every election for someone who can win. <br /><br />If we could get out the vote, take the House and keep the Senate in the next election, we could get the legislation we want and need. In the face of a global economic machine rigged for the oligarchs, and monumental environmental disasters that are just going to keep coming and keep getting worse, conservative = suffering, death, and moving faster toward extinction. Greenwald and other Libertarians = distraction. Too many liberals are wasting time with they think is ideal with little more than bumper sticker slogans, new age woo, a whole lot of ignorance, and an overweening since of entitlement. The left needs to get back to the library and grow up. We don't have time for this.wileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10234314999465951053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-78813612159233387922013-12-11T13:00:40.042-06:002013-12-11T13:00:40.042-06:00I'd suggest that the first order of business w...I'd suggest that the first order of business was to move beyond the "government via crisis" mode we've been in lately. That's what the common sense caucus finally provides, so its an important step. And it will likely get us immigration reform in the spring. <br /><br />But other than that, I agree. The rest of the domestic agenda is likely on hold until after next year's election.Nancy LeTourneauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12614317154146836694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-39154158857491377252013-12-11T12:47:50.431-06:002013-12-11T12:47:50.431-06:00Not quite. It's better understood as a non-agg...Not quite. It's better understood as a non-aggression pact between two sides that are really struggling politically at the moment, with the teabaggers left to howl out in the cold. The sequester finally proved unpalatable enough to deal, but not in a way where Democratic or Republican agendas are able to advance in the way maximalist forecasters hoped based on an examination of the leverage one side supposedly had over the other.<br /><br />Put it this way: at the SOTU six weeks from now, will the President hail 2013 as a year of compromise and common sense solutions, or is he going to be spitting fire about missed investments, universal education and income inequality? The Pentagon gets its money back and the two parties agree to a tactical stalemate and time to regroup for next year's elections.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-59235051740555197892013-12-11T10:37:06.989-06:002013-12-11T10:37:06.989-06:00Yep. Yep. Nancy LeTourneauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12614317154146836694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-60628085714746425542013-12-11T10:31:52.572-06:002013-12-11T10:31:52.572-06:00Doesn't this deal also last for two years? Tha...Doesn't this deal also last for two years? That takes away a bargaining chip from the tea people.Tien Lenoreply@blogger.com