Call it a setback, Obama calls it “humbling,” but the election obviously provided a sweeping mandate, and the president is running with it. The spectacle of Americans unquestioningly casting their vote for worse or worser, is the usual reinvestment of political take-me-for-a-ride capital, to jaw dropping limits. The new Republican majority can refuse to fund “Obama Care” but now President Obama is inexplicably floating conciliatory balloons about having to extend the tax cuts for the rich, as if the [sunsetted] Bush Tax Cuts needed a congressional vote to end, not to resume. Apparently the election day show of imbecility has emboldened DC polemicists to pretend the sun never sets on government graft.
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Only 41.5% of eligible voters participated in this election. Take off all those living without the right to vote (ex prisoners and current ones) and undocumented foreign workers living in this country, and it comes out to only about 1/3 of adults living in the country participated in this farce of a selection.
It’s not disillusion, it’s progress.
Did anybody else notice the photo of Hickenlooper and Rivera sitting together and smiling and agreeing with each at a Big Whig political function in CS published in the Gazette this week? Disgusting!
These two parties love each other because their funding comes largely from the same sources and their agenda is basically the same. Why bother to vote Democrat when it still leads to getting Republicans in office much of the time?
‘Worse or worser’? Those Democrats (liberals) see it that way, don’t they, Eric? And it seems to y’all so pragmatic to go with ‘worse’, doesn’t it?
‘The spectacle of Americans unquestioningly casting their vote for worse or worser, is the usual reinvestment of political take-me-for-a-ride capital, to jaw dropping limits.’
Which Democrats did you, Jonah, and Marie vote for this time, Eric? Is fearless Dennis Apuan in your district? Think god, due to your efforts, that we will only get it worse and not worser then!
It’s ‘jaw dropping’ smart to vote donkey and not like my own ‘wasted’ non-participation in our pseudo democracy selections. Because of degenerate ‘piles’ like me, Sarah Palin might just become our next President??? …(not that such a comic affair could actually occur in our sane universe with pragmatic ‘liberals’ at Not My Tribe, the J&P, and Springs Action Alliance ‘mobilizing’ for inaction.)
‘…but now President Obama is inexplicably floating conciliatory balloons about having to extend the tax cuts for the rich.’
It’s not inexplicable at all, Eric. He was one of the candidates the rich put forth.
By “inexplicable” I meant that Obama can offer no cogent explanation for why he is pretend-conceding the tax cut for the rich.