NP - Sign Ant- Obama-GOP Tax Cut Petition

[Robert Mahnke]

If more people were with MoveOn and Bernie Sanders in generally, Obama
could drive better deals.  If the Democrats on the Hill could have
gotten their act together, they could have passed a better package
before the election and run on it, but they apparently couldn't and
didn't.

Obama wants stimulus, and the Republicans want huge tax breaks for the
richest 3%.  Apparently the latter are only 37% of the deal.

FWIW, Chamberlain gets a bit of a bad rap.  When others (Lord Halifax,
IIRC) in the British government wanted to reach a negotiated peace
with the Germans in May, 1940, Chamberlain crucially stuck with
Churchill.

On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 2:56 PM,  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> I've heard this over and over:  "Obama's hands are ties.  There's nothing he can do but prevent bad things from getting worse."  Would President Palin's hands be similarly tied?  Or is it only Democratic presidents who are powerless?  Why is that?  It's not a very persuasive argument for voting Democrat.  I'm with Bernie Sanders and (finally!) MoveOn.org on this one.  I'm guessing I would have preferred Churchill to Chamberlain back in the day.
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> Laura
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> -----Original Message-----
>>From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>>Sent: Dec 7, 2010 5:41 PM
>>To: Henry M <scuffling at gmail.com>
>>Cc: Pynchon Liste <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>>Subject: Re: NP - Sign Ant- Obama-GOP Tax Cut Petition
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>>On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Henry M <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> And the alternative to what Obama has been doing is... what?
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>>Stop pretending that he can work w/ an Opposition that wants his
>>demise more than any other goal.  Start fighting, like FDR did when he
>>was up against the same kind of opposition.
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>>> The conflation of Dems and Doze (Rebs) helps move the country to the right.
>>
>>Which is why Obama should stop all this bipartisan Kabuke.
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