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Eric Massa says he was pushed out.

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Obama calls for talks with GOP on health care, then vote by Congress.

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He also regrets that he couldn’t “break though the noise” and didn’t “repeat” the message enough.  The problem, he says, was with his communication strategy, not his policies.

So, 52% of liberal Massachusetts –  THE HALLOWED OF LIBERAL DEMAGOGUES – somehow just got a little out of sync with the President’s message.

This isn’t even lying. . .this is fraud.

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Why is it only TODAY that Democrats suddenly fear their party has been taken over by Progressives?

Preposterous.

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Politico digs deep -DEEP! – to find a quote praising the Obama Administration’s executive pay mandates for bailout corporations:

“We commend the pay czar and the administration for telling the people who crashed the economy that they need to make the same sacrifices main street and real America have been forced to take on as a result of the economic crisis,” said Dan Pedrotty, director of the AFL-CIO Office of Investment. “The American people are fed up with watching Wall Street play by a different set of rules and pretend like the economic crisis which they created is for everyone else to suffer through and not them.”

Could they have quoted a more obvious position?

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It’s just that they’re so good at mainstreaming extreme positions and aberrations that they’ve effectively created a gaffe box elfish leftish pundits can spar against in their miserable scripts.

Well, somebody has to actually draw the strawmen.  Thanks Politico!

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Remember that Japanese minister who showed up drunk at the G7 this year?

Didn’t turn out so well for him.

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A timely reminder from Bill Clinton reminding us that reactionary impulses seemingly forever condemn all of us to paleozoic existence.

Thanks Bill!

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Whatever happened to the smart, informed progressive leadership we all came to love in the mid naughties? Looks like they’ve succumbed to their daydreamin’ hormones again:

( via Barone )  There is an element of convenient fantasy as well in Obama’s health care statements to date. We are going to save money by spending money. We are going to solve our fiscal problems with a program that will increase the national debt by $1,000,000,000,000 over a decade. We are going to guarantee you can keep your current insurance with a bill that encourages your employer to stop offering it.

The list goes on. We are going to improve health care for seniors by cutting $500,000,000,000 from Medicare. We aren’t going to insure illegal aliens, except that we won’t have any verification provisions to see that they can’t apply and get benefits.

Such conflicting remedies to vague problems.

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The nicknames have already changed.  Why have the President own any of the blame?

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Which leads the intellectually curious onlooker to ask is there more to this story?. . . and how did we get here from there?

In 2008, the same boisterous anti-Obama crowd was no match for the well heeled Chicago campaign machine that had just finished devouring the previously invincible Clintons.   Even with two compromised candidates, Republicans nonetheless presented a no-holds-barred assault to maintain the presidency.  Why is Obama having a harder time defeating this round of opposition when the right almost certainly expended all of its ammo in November?

In 2008, a read of Obama’s platform made him look informed and egalitarian.

In 2009, a read of Obama’s actual proposed legislation made him look deformed and totalitarian, and damn near has caused a (proverbial) bloody  riot.  And it’s caused the administration and its congressional allies to stumble badly and cause a quick retreat on the keystone concept of health care reform.

The real resentment of stronger federal government and creeping socialism is much deeper than he ever realized.  After accusing wingnuts of planting phantom Nazis at townhalls,  he and his congressional alllies have risen above the fray by . . . . busing unionists and apparatchiks to townhalls!

This has become the year you can’t stand face to face with your congresscritter and give him an earful.

Some things have been made apparent this year:

• The Democrats maintain huge vote day advantages that only get stronger as they build larger public constituencies.  However, they cannot continue to reward these groups indefinitely at the expense of racist radio show hosts.
• The White House recognizes that opposition to it and its key initiatives is actually real, and finds itself prepping contingencies for a move to self preservation.
• The unelected left (media, netroots ,etc) finds it can only respond to criticism with cries of racism and helpfully timed press releases stating concerns about the “growing influence and power of armed militias.”
• Conservatives stayed home on Election Day 2008
• We do NOT have a two party system. We have, at least, a three party system (Progressives, Democrats, and Republicans).  Sorry libertarians.

Plus, does the White House need Linda Douglass?  Yes, because when vague law is proposed, critics get to define it. . . and control of the message is lost before the message even got its socks on.   Douglass is just the Facts Czarina. But isn’t that what a Press Secretary should be doing?

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White House wants relaxed privacy restrictions.

I mean, what’s the need?

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Cannibalizing blighted real estate, that is.

Here’s a fun, revealing fact:  The cities of Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Youngstown, Detroit, Toledo, Flint, Dayton, Canton have had a total of fifty-seven mayors since 1970*.

All but nine have been Democrats.

Here’s to your future, Rust Belt!

* based on wildy inaccurate and biased Wikipedia information.

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Ron Hart on ObamaCare:

If Obama has his way, his health care plan will be funded by his treasury chief who did not pay his taxes, overseen by his surgeon general who is obese, signed by a president who smokes, and financed by a country that is just about broke.

What possibly could go wrong?

I dunno.  Lots, probably.

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He’s. . .just. . .not. . .where the two bubba’s were at the same time.

I blame white America!

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Need to rein in the debts, big guy.

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I, for one, couldn’t see this coming.

Heckuva price for on the job training.

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Waxman didn’t get this far on just his good looks.

Although it’s fun to watch the wheels come off the bus on this (and Cap’n Trade), be prepared for a final push that will catch all the critics by surprise.

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The Prez lets a little slip.

But hey, why not start a heated dialog on race right in the middle of another heated dialog?

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Chillax.  Your country’s in the very best of hands.

Health czar exploits loophole in the President’s policy against “revolving door” lobbyists– an unfortunate procedural technicality he most certainly inherited from Bush.

Did I mention, though, she’s a “dedicated public servant”.

(Sigh) She can’t be linked to as a Chicagoland crony (sigh again!) but  she was involved in Tennessee’s marvelous health care renaissance called TennCare, which seemed to have worked out pretty well.

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Obama may have to wait for health care passage.  The irony is, although their rebuff will have prevented an inexcusable disaster of epic proportions, it will still validate his approach because he forced “change”.

Which will be what he claimed to do the entire time.

Which will be trumpeted by countless, insufferable partisans.

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and that they’re no excuse for inaction.

I thought trillion was higher than billion, but I might be wrong.

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With Gibbs splaining all the while how he never set the expectation so high.

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Black Chamber of Commerce CEO jousts verbally with Barbara Boxer.

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Black Chamber of Commerce CEO jousts verbally with Barbara Boxer.

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