Basically, during The Regime's reign, congressional Democrats escorted their Republican colleagues down the "unitary executive" aisle which was bespangled with "the suspension of civil liberties, arbitrary detention, official torture and more."
Some have said that The Democrats are/were just spineless and others note that Democrats have a larger, more inclusive tent and they don't necessarily look organized in a parade. Another way of looking at it is that they individually think for themselves and either vote their conscience or vote the way they know their constituents want them to vote. In fact, if we were to blame this large and versatile tent for many of their past election losses, we would probably be at least partly correct.
This does not sound like a group who possesses a "mean spirited "our way or no way" attitude".
The writer isn't satisfied with merely accusing The Democrats of having that "mean spirited" attitude. He expresses what seems to be almost ecstatic appreciation to Republicans for "finally standing up to this nonsense."
Since Republicans controlled Congress for five out of the past nine years, it seems that there hasn't been much to which they've had to stand up. The writer could be referring to the actual physically positional status Republicans use when casting their votes, although I think that members of Congress must stand when they cast their votes.
However, let's go out on a limb here and assume that the writer is implying that Republicans had been sheepish in standing up for that on which they have voted and have "finally" stood up to the Democrats' "nonsense."
The writer gives no hint whether or not he'd been on an interplanetary vacation for the past eight years, but what other reason could there be for not realizing that The Republican "President" got almost everything he wanted from a Republican House and a Republican Senate since January of 2001 and especially since September 11, 2001? If the Republicans are standing and speaking out against, HR1: The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the word "finally" is an inappropriate adverb.
Many of the criticisms are born of either veiled or not so veiled racism. Maybe the obvious attempts by Republican members of Congress to make Barack Obama look as if he's not paying attention is thinly veiled racism while the vomitus excrement oozing from the mouths of Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh is a very clear attempt to appeal to the basest character flaws of certain groups and stir up racist feelings, dangerous racist feelings. If you think about what white supremacists believe, President Obama has got to be their worst nightmare.
Democrats and Republicans are wealthy people who play this game or put on this act called politics. If you've gotten far enough in politics to be well known on a national level, you've probably got some confessin' to do.
I admit that I've said and written that I'm going to stand back and see if Obama can prove me wrong. If I'm going to do that, it's nowhere near time to make up my mind one way or the other. I'm "giving him a chance" – as if he will ever know who I am – but I believe he'll eventually be exposed as a corporat; a member in good standing of The Corporacracy.
Not so patient have been people like the brown shirted pundits and the republicrats who have been hanging on Obama's every breath with impeach forks in their hands despite the fact that the president can hardly have done anything wrong at this early stage. The ones they call Republicans only need the noose to complete the picture.
Not one Republican member of The House could lend a helping hand to President Barack Obama! It seems obvious that they want him to look like a kid in a grown up’s game.
This may be all theater and most of us are probably not the targets of any political philanthropy. Nonetheless, this theater is playing out very ominously, indeed. It looks like junior high school or high school. The cool kids aren't even paying attention to the new kid. They're doing all they can to make him look ridiculous.
What's the new kid doing? He's saying, "Can't we all play nicely with one another?"
If there's any legitimacy to it at all, he's six foot fifteen and stronger than superman. It's his Senate and his House and even his governorships. And he's the president. He keeps saying economic relief has to be quick. We don't have time to screw around with politics
There's only one person who can speed up the process and that person is Barack Obama! If things have to happen quickly, then he has to morph into the famous "NO MORE MISTER NICE GUY". There's nothing holding him from stomping on every Republican racist in Congress and just doing what he knows needs to be done. You know, like Bush just did it? Just do it and I ain't talking about Nikes, either.
(Note: You can view every article as one long page if you sign up as an Advocate Member, or higher).
