I had to read this article twice, to make sure I was not misunderstanding anything. Apparently some democrats in congress are so disgusted with Obama that they are ready to launch a primary challenge to him all because they didn't get 100% of what they want since President Obama took office. Compromising/Negotiating BE DAMNED!
“I have been very disappointed in the administration to the point where I’m embarrassed that I endorsed him,” one senior Democratic lawmaker said. “It’s so bad that some of us are thinking, is there some way we can replace him? How do you get rid of this guy?”
At first I thought that was maybe a sick joke, then I realized that some liberals in Congress are the sick joke.
Excuse my rant!
http://www.thedailybeast.com/...
The budget deal, angrily rejected by Nancy Pelosi as it passed Thursday, was the last straw. Patricia Murphy on why some liberals are now pushing for a primary challenge to the president.
As President Obama headed to Chicago Thursday afternoon to kick off the first official fundraiser of his re-election campaign, he left behind a sizable collection of dispirited Democrats.
They were not relishing the chance to vote on a budget-cutting bill that had been forged without their input and that most found repugnant.
The compromise that Obama struck last week with House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to keep the federal government running contained steep cuts to some of the party’s most cherished programs—nutrition for poor women and children, long-stalled transportation projects, funding for community health centers—as well as language barring the District of Columbia from using its own tax dollars to finance abortions.
There is no more visible symbol of Democratic disgruntlement than the woman who was perhaps the president’s closest ally when she wielded the speaker’s gavel. When Nancy Pelosi voted against the budget measure Thursday, she did little to hide her anger with the White House over the fact that Obama, for the first time, had left her out of the negotiations on a major deal. Instead, he chose to work directly with Boehner and Reid to hammer out the compromise that each could take back to their caucuses for approval.
First off Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell were not in the meetings because both would have tried to pull the negotiations too far left/right, so the only persons in the negotiations were boerner, reid and obama. Lets face it. Nancy Pelosi and Mitch Mconnell are both POLARIZING and nothing would have gotten done if either were in the meetings. Neither had to time to deal with Nancy or Mitch cause they would have held shit up. Time was of the essence and they had to get a deal done or the freaking government would have shut down.
For many Democrats, the budget bill was only the latest in a string of disappointments served up from the White House since 2009, when Obama swept into office on a tide of goodwill and a platform of base-pleasing promises they say he hasn’t lived up to. On the list are his pledges to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, pass comprehensive immigration reform, and end the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans.
In 2008, for example, Obama promised Latino groups that he would pass comprehensive reform within a year of taking office. But he made no serious push to do so when the Democrats controlled the House and Senate. Latinos are further incensed over the fact that his administration is deporting a record number of illegal immigrants, more than under George W. Bush.
Now when I read this BULLSHIT, I want to PULL MY FUCKING HAIR OUT!!!
On Tax Cuts..
How many times did obama tell congress to pass a bill to end the bush tax cuts for the wealthy and pass a bill protecting the middleclass tax cuts? I will ask this question again. How many god damn times did he tell Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid to pass a fucking bill?
Let me answer that for you. He campaigned for about a month flying all around the country giving speeches in ohio, wisconsin, pennsylvania, california etc. telling congress to pass the fucking bill to end bush cuts. President Obama had leverage to get the deal done because he campaigned on it for years and the American People knew that this was going to happen.
So, what did congress do?
They left for midterm election without passing the bill because they were afraid of the republican attack ads on raising taxes so they CHICKENED OUT when everyone in the country wanted them in every single god damn poll to protech middle class tax cuts and raise taxes on the rich. Everybody on the blogs was told to call their congressman/senator to support President Obama to pass the protecting middle class tax cuts. They were thinking about their reelection not bush tax cuts.
So after the lost the house by a whopping 63 seats, and lost the leverage they had to negotiate with republicans, they got mad with obama for giving in and compromising with the GOP to keep the tax cuts because they held all the cards and was willing to let the unemployed, middleclass go down the drain for their tax cuts for the rich. Then they have audacity to get mad cause they didn't do their fucking jobs to end them like he ask them too??!?!
On Guatanomo bay....
Please don't make me go off on this BULLSHIT!! President obama CANNOT close GITMO because SORRY ASS CONGRESS passed a fucking bill preventing him for doing so. How the fuck do you think he is supposed to close it? Thru OSMOSIS? DEMOCRATS in congress passed a bill with REPUBLICANS blocking funds to close it. Democrats in the Senate and House who were from NYC and Chicago an all other states cried HOLY HELL about having a trial in their back yard. President Obama wanted to house prisoners in his homestate of illinois but got BLASTED for even thinking that. So again LIBERALS IN CONGRESS WTF is he supposed to do?
On Immigration reform... The dream act FAILED because 5 DEMOCRATS stopped it from passing the senate last year. Is that obama fault too? DEMOCRATS in congress FAILED to draw up an immigration bill so that President Obama could sign it into law. The GOP in the senate FILLIBUSTER everything moving so how is an immigration bill going to pass? Congress needs to start doing their jobs and stop blaming president obama for everything because they didn't get their way.
President Obama ISN"T GOD!! He CANNOT pass any laws until a bill hits his desk. If congress fails to do its job to get the types of legislation it wants passed to President Obama's desk, then they have NO RIGHT to continue this tirade against him.
Reading this article crystallizes why I switched to independent last year because I believe that both parties are the reason why we are in this mess right now and why we will not be able to fix the challenges this country faces if we don't stop lashing out at each other, if we don't agree with something.
IMO Both parties are selfish and not willing to give and take and Nancy Pelosi, and the liberals in congress and Mitch MConnell and the conservatives in the Senate are going to have to realize that we are in a DIVIDED GOVERNMENT.
This is from someone from democratic side?
“I have been very disappointed in the administration to the point where I’m embarrassed that I endorsed him,” one senior Democratic lawmaker said. “It’s so bad that some of us are thinking, is there some way we can replace him? How do you get rid of this guy?” The member, who would discuss the strategy only on the condition of anonymity, called the discontent with Obama among the caucus “widespread,” adding: “Nobody is saying [they want him out] publicly, but a lot of people wish it could be so. Never say never.”
This person ought to be ashamed of themselves....
The Progressives/liberals in congress have to sit down, calm down and realize that we have a deficits problem. Yes the deficits were caused by the mismanagement of Bush Administration, their going on a druken sailor binge, their cutting taxes during 2 wars, their creating a medicare advantage without paying for it. Yes, they are the cause of our deficits but the deficits are there and we have to do something about them in the near future or someone else will.
We cannot simply ignore that we have a deficit problem by burying our head in the sand. They can't get their way on this by simply living in a fantasy. They have to come to grips that we are going to have to reform a lot of the things we as a society likes with regards to spending. Those folks can't sit there and say DO NOTHING to medicare, medicaid, SS, other progressive programs and TAX the rich on EVERYTHING. We can't TAX our way out of the problem. Do taxes need to go up? HELL YEAH especially on wealthy familes and corporations but doing that alone will not solve this deficits problem and they have to understand that getting a bill passed to prevent a government shutdown should be everyone's goal, especially those in congress.
The republicans party nearly destroyed this country with their fucked up bush policies. with spending, deregulation, middle class getting hammered in the process, and salaries flat lining, the deficits skyrocket and with unemployment so high money wasn't going into the system which has caused, medicaid, medicare to be on the verge of going broke and contributing more to the deficits. Tax rates are at its lowest in decades, and corporate loopholes that are giving companies billions of dollars in revenue that could be pumped into the economy is also causing it. But here is the bottom line that president has said repeatedly. The rich and wealthy in this country have to pay more taxes. PERIOD. Just like progressives can't tax our way out of the problem, the conservatives can't sit there and say taxes are not the problem. IT IS A PROBLEM!! They have to stop being naive into thinking that we don't have a revenue problem when clearly every single economist have said we have a REVENUE PROBLEM!!, Conservatives need to realize that we can't CUT SPENDING our way out of the problem. It has to be a COMPREHENSIVE approach which means both sides are going to have to give up on something they love. That is reality with a divided government.
President Obama is faced with a hostile divided government that he didn't ask for. He is faced with the most nasty, negative environment that any president has had to face. Why? Because progressives/liberals stayed home in 2010 and independents BOLTED to Republicans to show this president and congress they OVERREACHED!! Progressives thought he was a corporatist, he is sellout, he is not a progressive enough, he is compromising too much, he is weak, he isn't a leader, blah, blah, blah and now because folks stayed home and didn't bother to vote, he is now faced with having to deal with medicare/medicaid/ss on republicans terms, not his terms, because they are forcing him to deal with this deficit issue RIGHT NOW. Every news media pundit and journalist out there is saying president obama needs to lead on this. He can't avoid it he has to appear as if he is trying to fix these programs. Just imagine if he had a progressives controlled congress with Speaker Pelosi and Senate leader Reid? He wouldn't have to make all these so called CUTS that hurt folks, but that isn't the reality he is facing right now
The reality is that is he is facing the most conservative radical congress in history. He has to compromise with a teabag congress. How can any president get any progressives bills passed? How can any president please 100% of his base as well all the liberals in congress? He CAN"T!!! They can scream, holler and try to launch a primary against him, bash this president until they are blue in the face, folks stayed home last November, and caused a teabag radical party to take control of 1/3 part of the government. So if people are upset or congress is upset that obama isn't being PROGRESSIVE enough, then you all need to look at those who decided to stay home last november.
Both sides in congress are seriously are going to have to leave the politics at the waters edge and seriously share the burden to fix the deficits in this country. Purist on both sides of democrats and republicans need to STFU and stop being part of the problem. There is 300 million people in this country and all them are not PROGRESSIVES or CONSERVATIVES so this president and congress have to govern for EVERYBODY not ideologues on either side.