Gene Lyons tells the Prez to lead the bleeping party

[mooseandsquirrel]

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The raw political truth is that the GOP reacted to its 2008 electoral losses by elevating party over country. The fundamental strategy has been to harass the Obama administration with hysterical falsehoods, prevent it from getting anything important done, then argue that Democrats are incapable of governing.

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[FormerDittoHead]

1. Obama has turned the Presidency into the office of the non-voting 101st Senator. n/t

[LiberalFighter]

2. The only way that will happen is if they put someone more competent than Rahm Imanuel

Rahm was a failure in the Clinton Administration failing to learn from his mistakes.

Despite working on the Senate side he failed to understand how it works.

[vegiegals]

3. But Obama is still harping about bipartisan related to the health bill. I

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President must lead party
By Gene Lyons
really think this manta has slowed the process (the continuous need by the WH to want and demand Repug help).


LITTLE ROCK — The headline of the year appeared in New York’s Village Voice.

It read: “Scott Brown Wins Mass. Race, Giving GOP 41-59 Majority in the Senate.”

On “CBS Evening News,” Katie Couric brightly informed her audience that the former Cosmopolitan centerfold model’s swearing-in gave Republicans the power to defeat all of President Obama’s initiatives.

Not only has total paralysis been theoretically achieved, but our allegedly liberal “mainstream” news media treat it as entirely normal. Never mind that Republicans haven’t themselves achieved a 60-vote supermajority within living memory, or that rules permitting 41 percent of the Senate to filibuster legislation to death arguably constitute an unconstitutional violation of majority rule (as Republicans argued when Democrats threatened to filibuster George W. Bush’s Supreme Court nominees).....


On all the networks, the wish to jump-start the 2012 presidential campaign, the ultimate reality TV program, was almost palpable.

In short, how’s that hopey-changey thing workin’ for ya?.............

[Demeter]

4. If You Want Leadership in the Democratic Party, I have 4 Things to Say:

Grayson, Kucinich, Whitehouse, and Howard Dean.