WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO START BLAMING THE CULPRITS WHO ARE THE ONES WHO ARE CAVING IN TO THE GOP and WILL CONTINUE TO CAVE in 2011??
Lets see.
Joe Lieberman
Ben Nelson
Jim Webb
Joe Manchin
Then you had Feingold, and other who voted for neither tax cut.
This will continue as it gets closer to 2012 with each vote. You will start to see democrats in Red states continue to backstab Obama to avoid losing their re-election to appear more conservative.
As an an Independent, the democrats are DYSFUNCTIONAL!! Not President Obama.. THE FUCKING CONGRESS AND SENATE DEMOCRATS!!
The Main reason the democrats lost a lot of seats was because of DYSFUNCTION within the ranks. The votes this weekend is a prime example as to what's the problem with the democratic party and what this president has been facing since he got elected. President obama can't even get a unified caucus to support whatever he wants, regardless if its Healthcare, Wall Street Reform, Taxes, NOTHING!! No matter what tax plan comes out of obama mouth he can't get 100% cooperation from his own party. Why is that? Lets see we need 60 VOTES TO BREAK A FUCKING FILIBUSTER but we only got 53 votes. Where are the 60 votes?
Right now you got some conservadems in the senate who supports the GOP tax plan of extending tax cuts for the wealthy permanently and others senators say 2 or 3 years. Then look over in congress where some in the house are agreeing with the GOP plan which is extend for everybody and you had 20 democrats vote in lockstep with the GOP. WTF IS THAT?
Where is your OUTRAGE on the clueless Congressional members who voted for this? Then you have some democrats voted to extend up to a million, others 500,000. Then you have some who say don't extend for anybody. WHY ISN"T ALL THE DEMOCRATS INCLUDING CONSERVADEMS SAYING THE SAME GOD DAMN MESSAGE?
Where is the UNITY? With friends like conservadems, Obama don't need republican enemies. If all 100% democrats in both chamgers supported president obama, then he would have the AMMUNITION to fight back but he doesn't. He not only is fighting the GOP but he fighting these spinless consevadems who continue to backstab him over and over again with each piece of legislation.
All these different tax messages coming out of one party. The GOP message=PERMANENT TAX CUT PERIOD! Polls be damned!! And they are unified and itching for a fight to bring more harm to the middle class. They are UNIFIED even if they are dead wrong. The dems can't even get one UNIFED message on Tax Cuts. It doesn't matter what Obama agrees to he can't get his whole caucus to back him. He could get on tv blast the dems till he is blue in the face, threaten to VETO any bill that has tax cut for the wealthy, the GOP will still block these tax cuts and run out the clock on getting anything else done. President obama gave the democrats in both chambers the ammunition to fight these tax cuts months ago and what did they do? They backstabbed him from the get go and didn't support him and left for the midterms without voting for them. So why it his fault?
Speaking as an Independent,sometimes you have to strike deals to get things done and right now time is running out to get something done. That is just the way it is with a divided DEM CAUCUS in both chambers and SENATE JACKED UP RULES that can filibuster anything in its path. What you need to fighting for is changing the Senate filibuster rules. That is why we are here right now.
Here is the bottom line and where we are RIGHT NOW. The economy is weak, and If we don't fix this tax code, all of our taxes will go up and nothing else passes DADT, DREAM, START, Unemployment extensions and a more conservative congress replaces the outgoing ones. I am listening to left radio right now and here is what is at stake. If the taxes expire it will be a double whammy on the middle class because not only will their taxes go up but more people will be dropped off Unemployment rolls which will have a devastating effect on the economy. We could see the unemployment rate RISE even more which is what the GOP wants to get back into the white house. This is the crappy hand obama has right now cause the Dems in congress didn't vote for the tax bill before now.
If President Obama decide to let the taxes expire, he will not get DADT repealed, Unemployment benefits extended for a year, DREAM not getting passed and the START treaty going down in flames. Meanwhile after the 112th congress is sworn in with a tea party backed congressional members and House Majority Leader Boerner, they then draw up a permanent more conservative tax cuts that winds up on Obama's desk in January. That will be his choice. Either veto a permeanent tax cut bill or sign it into law. If he veto's it, they blame him for everybody's taxes going up. FOX News, and all the Right wing Radio and other continue to blame him that he made taxes go up. If he signs it, we are stuck with a permanent tax cut for the rich. Do yall want him to have that choice In January or a more of a bargaining chip right now to help middle class.
Now that may be a fight yall want him to have, meanwhile the country's economic situation grows dire cause 3.3 million people have dropped from UI by the end of January and 98% of working middle class taxes just went up. GOP partying like its 1999 and then they start gearing up to take down obama in 2012 cause they got a good message for the voting public. Taxes have gone up, folks are losing more and more of their jobs, people being evicted from their homes, foreclosures continue, cause billions of revenue that would have been pumped into the economy have just ceased!! Is that what the dems want? You have to think about folks who aren't looking at the news or paying attention to what is going on. If this economy don't improve, then obama will be blamed for the economic catastophe that happens cause of lost revenue into the economy.
Hate it or Love it. Now is the time to stike a deal and get SOMETHING DONE! Speaking as an Independent, Strike a deal and get as much as you can..DADT, START Treaty, Unemployment extended, and DREAM act done. I know it is FUCKED Up that this is the choice yall have but look at the alternative
You all will continue hemmorraging independents if yall continue treating president obama like crap. He is dealing with a complicated and difficult washington dc with a polarizing environment. I sometimes read the vile, viciousness over here and wonder if I have accidently wondered to the FREEP page or Redstate. It ridiculous. Am I upset with Obama on some of his decisions? HELL YES! But I continue to point the finger at the imbecils in the democratic party from red states in congress who continue to vote lockstep with the culprits who caused all of this and not supporting obama, but yet this is obama's fault for not fighting hard enough?