tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post7031422230451669563..comments2024-03-22T10:49:51.766-05:00Comments on Horizons: Obama stole all the GOP's good ideasNancy LeTourneauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12614317154146836694noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-28744559118195119652013-02-20T07:00:39.711-06:002013-02-20T07:00:39.711-06:00A Republican...really?
A "Republican" w...A Republican...really?<br /><br />A "Republican" who...<br /><br />1. Passed the biggest stimulus in our country's history to save us from a depression<br />2. Saved the auto industry<br />3. Passed universal health care<br />4. Ended DADT<br />5. Gave us the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau<br />6. Got us out of one war and will soon end another one <br />7. Is reducing our nuclear arms arsenal by 1/3<br />8. Passed the first tax increase on the wealthy in 20 years<br /><br />And now he's going for:<br /><br />1. Sensible gun reform<br />2. Comprehensive immigration reform<br />3. An increase in the minimum wage<br />4. Universal pre-K<br /><br />If that's what you call a Republican - I'll take it ;-)Nancy LeTourneauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12614317154146836694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-84397771543026651062013-02-20T05:16:22.521-06:002013-02-20T05:16:22.521-06:00He is winning the game, as you say, but the price ...He is winning the game, as you say, but the price of his win is that he is now a republican. He is willing to do a Grand Bargain hurting millions of poor and elderly. He molly-coddles the criminals of wall street, he and his BFF AG Holder spy on everything we do and say.<br />He has determined that he can trash our sacred Constitutional Rights as he pleases, and the cheery-on-the-cake, he says he has the Right to come anywhere in the world and kill American Citizens, on his secret word alone. He Is A Republican. I love BHO for all that he is as a person, but as a President, not so much.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-65769232481531627902013-02-19T12:21:53.787-06:002013-02-19T12:21:53.787-06:00I remember back in the late 90's a commentator...I remember back in the late 90's a commentator saying that the reason conservatives hated Bill Clinton was that he'd taken all the things they had said for years that they wanted to do, and did them. <br /><br />Here, it's a case of they made a decision to be "the party of no" and the end result is that not only did they fail to come up with any <em>new</em> ideas, they didn't even try to polish up and pass the ideas they'd had earlier. Now that the President has said "Sound's like a starting idea," their "No" has left them without anything to try. Sucks to be them, doesn't it?Norbrookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11383422747683493947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-35243841528660553642013-02-19T09:57:12.600-06:002013-02-19T09:57:12.600-06:00I think that could possibly happen from someone in...I think that could possibly happen from someone in the Libertarian wing of the Republican Party. Ron Paul certainly tried. Nancy LeTourneauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12614317154146836694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-55313232947657249012013-02-19T09:40:16.368-06:002013-02-19T09:40:16.368-06:00Occasionally, just for a brief flash of time, I wo...Occasionally, just for a brief flash of time, I wonder if any Republicans will consider flanking Obama on the left? Because there's plenty of space there...whereas, as you say, there is virtually no space left if they want to simultaneously rail at Obama <i>and</i> present actual policy ideas.<br /><br />It's a pipe dream, I know. But historically US political parties have had a "reasonably" fungible identity. The Ds and Rs have swapped polarisations before, I think. And there has got to be the odd hungry Republican politician looking at the idea...sibusisodannoreply@blogger.com