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Romney’s loss to Obama? He didn’t really care enough to win.

By on December 26, 2012 in Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Obama for America

He meant to (not) do that

Remember the horrifying graphic from Mitt Romney’s transition webpage that showed him as “President-Elect”?

Given his complete lack of qualifications for being president and the fact that he was so completely out of touch with most Americans, the very idea of Romney as “president elect” was enough give Democrats heart palpitations.

As it turns out, at least according to the story that’s being spun by Romney’s family and campaign officials, he didn’t really want to run for president anyway. It was something he did because he got talked into it by his son Tagg and his wife Ann.

Just another trophy to add to the shelf. Another item for his curriculum vitae. But not something he really wanted to do.

More analysis after the jump.


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Holy cow. Our president is actually rational.

By on April 5, 2010 in Barack Obama, Obama, President Obama

Unlike the media.

I couldn’t possibly be more proud of the POTUS or the fact that I have worked so tirelessly to (a) get him elected and (b) help him get his agenda passed.

I’m just sayin’…

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“MOMMY!!! Barack won’t let me keep hitting him!”

By on March 29, 2010 in Barack Obama, GOPocrisy, Obama, Politics, President Obama, Republican-Fail, Republicans

He was warned, oh yes he was. Having missed Bill Maher’s “New Rule“, the GOPosaurs warned the president that, by God, if he made any recess appointments, well, they would just quit being all bipartisany.

So he did anyway.

15 of ‘em. Average number of days these folks have been waiting to be confirmed: 214.

Now he’ll have to pay the price: no bipartisanship from Congress anymore.

Cry me a damn river.


As the New York Times reports, that was the final fucking straw for Republicans. They have tried and they have tried and they have tried to be bipartisan but the goddam president just wouldn’t let ‘em.…


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GOP giving up the health insurance reform fight?

By on March 9, 2010 in Democrats, MI-07, Obama, Organizing For America, President Obama, Republican-Fail

It’s starting to look like the Republicans are finally seeing the handwriting on the wall with regard to health insurance reform.

The signs are everywhere.


First we have the Club for Growth’s “Repeal It!” campaign. In this campaign, they are urging their candidates to sign the following pledge:

“I hereby pledge to the people of my district/state to sponsor and support legislation to repeal any federal health care takeover passed in 2010, and replace it with real reforms that lower health care costs without growing government.”

When you quit fighting the reforms themselves and move to vowing to repeal the reforms months from now, that smacks of a tacit admission that they know the fight is all but over.…


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Why you should give OFA a second look

By on March 2, 2010 in Democrats, Obama, Organizing For America, Politics, President Obama

A few days ago, I wrote a blog entry titled “Whither OFA?”. In it I talked a bit about OFA and where we’ve been over the past year.

Looking forward, I thought some folks might be interested in learning how Organizing for America (OFA) is evolving and suggest that you consider taking another look.

The executive summary is this: OFA has made significant strides in the past year, has learned from some of its mistakes, and is making changes that should make it a more effective network to enact the policies supported by the Obama administration and the Democratic Party.…


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Republicans demand “scrapping the bill” TWENTY times!

By on February 26, 2010 in Democrats, GOP, GOPocrisy, Obama, Politics, President Obama, Republican-Fail, Republicans

Yup. Twenty demands by Republicans at yesterday’s bipartisan Health Care Summit to scrap all existing legislative efforts and start anew. And there were only ten of them there.

Sheesh.

Pat Oliphant nailed it:

My name is Eclectablog and I am a politaholic. I actually took a vacation day yesterday to watch all seven hours of President Obama’s bipartisan Health Care Summit so that I could live-blog it.

In the course of the day, I made a drinking game out of it where everytime a GOPosaur demanded, in one fashion or another, that the President and Democrats start over and scrap all of the work that has been done in the past year to assemble a health insurance reform package to pass out of Congress for the president’s signature.…


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White House offers to put GOP HCR plan online – Where is it?

By on February 23, 2010 in Bwahahahahaha, Conservatives, GOP, GOPocrisy, Obama, Politics, President Obama, Republican-Fail, Republicans

This morning, the White House offered to put the GOP’s health insurance reform plan online alongside their own plan in preparation for Thursday’s bipartisan summit.

Problem is: there isn’t one.

Via Dan Pfeiffer at the White House blog:

What you can’t do just yet is read about the Republicans’ consensus plan – because so far they haven’t announced what proposal they’ll be bringing to the table. To be sure, there are many Republicans who share the President’s conviction that we need to act on reform, and there are several pieces of Republican health care legislation out there. Previously we were told this was the House Republican bill.…

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Andrew Sullivan: Obama ain’t done yet

By on February 1, 2010 in Conservatives, Democrats, GOP, Obama, Politics, President Obama, Republicans, Things That Make You Go Hmmm

While I don’t agree with him on everything, I appreciate Andrew Sullivan and his outsider’s (British) perspective on American politics. His essay in the Sunday Times this past weekend, titled “Listen up, the president is not for turning” is no exception. And it has some common sense observations that all of us, conservatives and liberals alike, would do well to digest.

Money quote (for me):

…if you look at the state of American politics, you see Democrats refusing to restrain some of their worst spendthrift instincts and unable to pass an important bill even with the biggest majorities in both houses in years.

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In retrospect, Pres.Obama really made a strategic error

By on January 30, 2010 in Democrats, Obama, President Obama, Republicans

Anyone who has read my blog in the past year knows I’m one of those who is out front with in support of the president and his administration. This blog entry doesn’t change that. But I am going to acknowledge this: when it comes to messaging, the president has left it to Congressional Democrats and they don’t know what the hell they are doing. And we are seriously paying the price for that on nearly every issue we’re fighting for.

Barack Obama knows messaging. That much was clear from his campaign and we got another tasty glimpse of it yesterday when he went into the lions’ den of the Republican party and then tweaked their short hairs on national television.…


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This is how a president schools the opposition party

By on January 29, 2010 in Bwahahahahaha, Obama, President Obama, Republican-Fail, Republicans

President Obama met with Republicans today in a Q&A session that was an amazing sight to see. At the last minute, the Obama administration asked that cameras be allowed and we should all thank heavens that happened. Watch this and enjoy. More of this, please. Much, much more.

I’m just sayin’…

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