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Absolutely Agree! (4.00 / 2)

The Repubs are COUNTING on continued economic disasters, and a failure by the Dems to pass key legislation to fix this mess.  They are going to actively work to make this situation worse.  Over the next two and four year election cycles, it will be much easier for the Repubs to blame the Dems for this mess, or lack of any recovery.  This is their whole game plan in a nutshell.

I'm not blaming Obama for this mess, I know it's not his fault, but he needs to start handing out these trillion dollar bailouts to the people that count:  the voters.  So far, we've watched him spend multi-trillions of dollars on the finance system that created the mess, and pass stimulus legislation that gives bucks to large companies.  Not much has translated into help at the voter level.

Universal single payer health care is the next item that looks like it will become a insurance company boondoggle rather than real reform.  We're experiencing a jobless recovery that going to leave tens of million of ex-middle class voters out of work, out of their home, without healthcare, and madder than hell.  It will be easy to convince them to blame the Dems.

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by: glenjo @ Sun Jun 28, 2009 at 17:51:28 PM CDT

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You Just Smacked The Nail Upside The Head, Pardner (0.00 / 0)

The Repubs are COUNTING on continued economic disasters, and a failure by the Dems to pass key legislation to fix this mess.  They are going to actively work to make this situation worse.  Over the next two and four year election cycles, it will be much easier for the Repubs to blame the Dems for this mess, or lack of any recovery.  This is their whole game plan in a nutshell.

Now if only you could get someone to pay you $50,000K a speech, they actually might even listen to you for a while before soberly deciding ignoring you.

But, since you're saying it for free....

Well, not so much.  They'll just go straight to the ignoring you part.

"Senate passes expanded GI bill despite Bush, McCain opposition"

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by: Paul Rosenberg @ Sun Jun 28, 2009 at 18:07:27 PM CDT

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