June 23, 2009

Poor Dick. Dick Does Not Understand Government. Poor, Poor Dick. Sad, Dick, Sad.

rainlillie (150 posts)
Mon Jun-22-09 02:20 PM
Response to Reply #251
257. No, both the Clinton’s are moderates.
Edited on Mon Jun-22-09 02:22 PM by rainlillie
[Edited out: An admonition to “call out” the “cowardly Democrats” in Congress, rather than Obama]
Kucinich was the only liberal in the race. Maybe that’s why I’m not whining about what he [Obama] hasn’t done thus far, I knew what I was getting before I voted for him.

Sapphocrat (1000+ posts)
Mon Jun-22-09 10:38 PM
Response to Reply #257
316. “Kucinich was the only liberal in the race.”

Richardson is a liberal. Gravel is even further to the left than Dennis.

rainlillie (150 posts)
Tue Jun-23-09 02:18 AM
Response to Reply #316
320. Whatever! Obama was never a liberal and never pretended to be….

Some people act as if Obama is a King or dictator. He needs the Senate and the Congress in order to get things done. So you need to call out the cowardly Democrats , who are too spineless to step up.

Sapphocrat (1000+ posts)
Tue Jun-23-09 03:56 AM
Response to Reply #320
324. You needn’t tell me that.

I have been saying since 2007 that Obama was not, and is not, a liberal, and that a lot of people projecting their expectations onto Obama’s “blank screen” were going to be very disappointed indeed. This was not, and is not, a very popular position to take, but I have never wavered from this position — no matter how many Very Bad Names I have been called. And I have been called many Very Bad Names.

I have always called out the cowardly Democrats, which you would know if you had ever read anything I have written in the past eight and a half years.

Nevertheless, I do not accept the now-stale “Obama can’t do anything! It’s all up to Congress!” song* designed to provide Obama cover for refusing to use the bully pulpit to move Congress in the right direction. Even George W. Bush did that. He did not always succeed (thank goodness), but he suffered no timidity about using his pulpit — even in the midst of the annual State of the Union address, as when he urged (no, demanded) passage of the Federal Marriage Amendment. (Perhaps you do not know of the Federal Marriage Amendment. Perhaps you should Google the Federal Marriage Amendment. And perhaps you should thank your lucky stars Mr. Bush was unsuccessful, and that there were enough Democrats and even — gasp! — enough semi-sentient Republicans to stop this hateful legislation in its tracks. For now.)

P.S. The United States Senate (with 100 members, two for each state) is part of Congress. The other part (535 members, apportioned by districts based on population) is the United States House of Representatives. And so, you see, it is not “the Senate and the Congress”; it is “the Senate and the House” which comprise Congress. If you have any other questions about the structure of our government, please do not hesitate to ask.

* A-5 on my bingo card.

Sad Dick, sad.

Sad, sad Dick.

Many, many sad, sad Dicks.

Posted by: Sapphocrat

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