Will Obama nominating Larry Summers be the last straw for you?

[srican69]

Cenk said that ir would be it for him ...

I can't stand Larry Summers ...If you read his Wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Summers (He doesnt believe in Global Warming, thinks men are smarter, thinks deregulation is good, thinks the developing world in underpolluted )- you begin to wonder why isn't this guy a Republican?

Please remind me - Why is Obama FURIOUSLY batting for this jerk ? ....

If Obama names him - That will be it for me ... How will it be for you

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[Scuba]

1. Obama lost my trust when he put chained CPI on the table.

[forestpath]

6. +1

[ZombieHorde]

2. I'm trying to view each of President Obama's policies and picks separately,

so that I don't feel that I have to defend the things I don't like and attack the things I do like.

[truebrit71]

3. I've been done with this particular moderate republican for a while...

...the only reason I defended him in 2012 is that the guy running on the republican ticket, and not just espousing republican ideals was so much worse than he...

[geek tragedy]

4. I love these hypotheticals about absolutely meaningless lines in the sand.

"If Obama does xyz, then I'm totally done with him. And boy oh boy that will change . . . absolutely nothing, not even my own behavior."

[srican69]

5. except that it isn't ... Larry Summers is looking like a real possibility.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/31/larry-summers-obama_n_3682908.html

[geek tragedy]

7. Sure, it's a possibility, but these "I'm done with him" vows

are the ultimate in meaningless threats.

He's the President, not your boyfriend. That will be true regardless of whom he nominates.

There won't be any breakup.

[JoePhilly]

9. These threads always crack me up.

Same folks ... about to reach "the last straw" ... again.

I like the ones for whom something that didn't actually happen, but that many keep predicting will happen, was "the last straw".

[Scurrilous]

8. "Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?"

<snip>

"President Obama told House Democrats on Wednesday that he thinks former Treasury secretary Larry Summers -- who has emerged as a front-runner to become the next Federal Reserve chairman -- isn't being given a fair shot by some Democrats.

House Democrats who participated in a private meeting with Obama on Capitol Hill on Wednesday told reporters that Obama made the defense of Summers after Rep. Ed Perlmutter, D-Colo., criticized Summers during the meeting.

"He took a minute to stand up for Larry Summers," said Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif."

<snip>

"White House spokesman Jay Carney later said that the president felt obligated to defend Summers, who was a key member of the president's economic team.

"Larry Summers' service here was extremely helpful to the president," Carney said."

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/07/31/obama-defends-larry-summers/2603439/


"FURIOUSLY batting"...hardly. More of a "heckuva job Brownie."

[Luminous Animal]

10. Last-straw dispenser

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[Rex]

11. I don't have a last straw, I cannot do anything to change

the PTB.

[Warpy]

12. They were afraid of a competent woman, as usual

so they told him to nominate a reliable hack who would take orders well.

[lamp_shade]

13. ofercrissake...

[Zoeisright]

14. So, this isn't DEMOCRATIC Underground anymore?

I don't get why this is allowed on this site. A couple of years ago this would have been deleted.

[LWolf]

16. It's still Democratic Underground.

It's still partisan. You still can't campaign against Democrats.

You could always criticize them.

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I know that many think it's always "election season," but that's not reality. As for Obama, as a lame duck, there will be no "election season."

That's what makes it mildly democratic; allowing some voices you don't agree with. At least, outside the election arena, anyway.

[frylock]

18. no, it's still the Democratic UNDERGROUND

[Enrique]

19. not true

before Obama was elected, most commentary here about Democratic leaders was highly negative, much more negative than what we are seeing now.

[LWolf]

15. I could swear I just

answered this question here last week. But I'll answer it again. I ran out of straws for Obama in 2009. I never had many to begin with; I lost a bunch when he started making appointments to his Cabinet in '08, and those left didn't last his first year.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023336814

[broiles]

17. Drones did it for me.