tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post4178039501889027479..comments2024-03-28T10:49:14.510-05:00Comments on Horizons: A question for the lazy mediaNancy LeTourneauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12614317154146836694noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-28422573775316941102014-06-19T00:08:01.213-05:002014-06-19T00:08:01.213-05:00I'm sorry I meant to say that I am Mary and I ...I'm sorry I meant to say that I am Mary and I agaree with you. Mary is my name. Thank you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-41900296873350714522014-06-19T00:06:42.515-05:002014-06-19T00:06:42.515-05:00Mary, I agree with you 100%. This needs to be on ...Mary, I agree with you 100%. This needs to be on FB. If you can see if you can put this one on FB "DEmocrats Only" This really needs to be shared by all who will repost it. I will. I just don't know how to do it from this reply. Thank you again your information was very bery helpful.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-47131960109117701502014-06-18T14:36:10.832-05:002014-06-18T14:36:10.832-05:00Thank you for your post, Nancy! It was reasonable...Thank you for your post, Nancy! It was reasonable and encouraging! And, each of the Comments - especially the last one - (see above) - also made me feel more and more optimistic!<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-60136989824357606642014-06-18T13:29:51.427-05:002014-06-18T13:29:51.427-05:00Perhaps I haven't fully been paying attention....Perhaps I haven't fully been paying attention. But I thought that Obama's presidency was over because he failed to adequately address the financial crisis after he became president. Didn't Chris Matthews and Chuck Todd repeatedly tell us in 2012 that no president had ever been re-elected with unemployment above 8%? <br /><br />1. Or was Obama's presidency over when Healthcare Reform didn't initially pass in 2009? <br /><br />2. Or maybe his presidency ended during the "Arab Spring"? <br /><br />3. Or was it during the BP oil spill (aka "Obama's Katrina")? <br /><br />4. Or was it after the republicans forced a manufactured financial crisis and caused the US to almost default in 2011? <br /><br />5. Or did he become a failure when immigration reform didn't pass in Dec 2011 because republicans blocked it? <br /><br />6. Or was it when Russia invaded Ukraine two months ago? <br />7. Or was it after the Benghazi attack in Libya?<br />8. Or was it over the NSA surveillance controversy with Snowden?<br /><br />9. Or maybe he failed as president during the Obamacare rollout (I recall seeing several news headlines that declared his presidency over at that time, aka "lame duck")? <br /><br />10. How about when North Korea launched "test missiles" in the direction of South Korean as a provocative move in 2010?<br /><br />11. Or maybe it was the time he failed to win the 2016 Olympic bid for Chicago?<br /><br />12. Or maybe it was the time he failed to strike a "Grand Bargain" deal with republicans in 2011 because they rejected their own ideas that he supported.<br /><br />13. Or maybe it was when the democrats lost control of the House in the 2010 Midterms because republicans had successfully gerrymandered their districts?<br /><br />I'm sorry. But it's been very difficult to actually remember when he "really" became a failed president. Hopefully, Chuck Todd and his MSNBC flakes can take comfort in knowing that we consider than nothing more than egotistical blowhards who've never been right about anything concerning Obama's presidency.<br /><br />-- C.B.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-21179021992516854192014-06-18T13:17:52.170-05:002014-06-18T13:17:52.170-05:00The Bergdahl-Taliban prisoner "controversy&qu...The Bergdahl-Taliban prisoner "controversy" probably contributed to PBO's poll numbers, since that was "reported" with mass hysteria and without context.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-74918421154479422912014-06-18T12:24:41.552-05:002014-06-18T12:24:41.552-05:00The short-sightedness of concocting a poll that pu...The short-sightedness of concocting a poll that puts the President in a bad light this early in the electoral season is another sign of laziness on the part of the media. In the absence of scandal, what will they be left with to try to bring down PBO's numbers later in the cycle? Besides, who goes into a voting booth considering who might represent them in Congress AND uses the President's popularity as a voting guide? Tien Lenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-25343886391316640992014-06-18T11:57:44.905-05:002014-06-18T11:57:44.905-05:00Stalemate works. Its a much better descriptor for ...Stalemate works. Its a much better descriptor for the legislative process. But the "pen and phone" strategy is certainly ON THE MOVE.Nancy LeTourneauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12614317154146836694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-81210911986494950102014-06-18T11:50:13.251-05:002014-06-18T11:50:13.251-05:00ah good you saw that too.
stalemate would be a mo...ah good you saw that too.<br /><br />stalemate would be a more applicable concept here. both sides have their power (to do nothing, in the case of the house), and both are exercising it within the boundaries that they both have.<br /><br />sherifffruitflyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14676077292357887614noreply@blogger.com