If I was given ONE question to ask the President tonight

[DainBramaged]

it would be "Mr. President, when are you going to start playing hardball like your adversaries?"


No further question or embellishment is necessary.

[indepat]

1. Trust me, BHO can and will play hardball with those he chooses to play hardball

with. :patriot:

[DainBramaged]

3. Right, sure, think public option, and try and convince me again......

:eyes:

[gratuitous]

11. Hint: He doesn't play hardball with congressional Republicans

But liberals and progressives are repeatedly told to suck it, where else ya gonna go? When the Obama administration frets that someone might be upset by their policies or pronouncements, do you suppose the object of their fretting is ever the likes of you and me, or is it far more likely to be some phantom bond trader who hates even the possibility of inflation?

[DainBramaged]

12. As always, good points. He cares NOT about the Dem base, no one whit

[RKP5637]

2. Yeah! Nice intelligent compromising guy doesn't hack it with these republicans, they're

too F'en Stupid and additionally only interested in money in their pockets. n/t

[aquart]

4. Capitulation is not compromise.

I would love some compromise. Let you know when I see some.

[RKP5637]

6. Thanks for the correction!!! Good word choice! n/t

[MrTriumph]

5. I'd ask him why he didn't make good on these 10 items:

10. Close the Prison at Guantanamo Bay.

9. Toughen the laws to stop revolving door between gov't and lobbyists.

8. End no-bid contracts for military contractors.

7. Forbid companies in bankruptcy from giving bonuses to top management.

6. Allow judges to re-negotiate bank terms for homeowners when their houses go into foreclosure.

5. Increase taxes on capital gains and dividends (which mainly benefit the rich).

4. Repeal Bush tax cuts for the rich.

3. Allow re-importation of prescription drugs.

2. Walk with picketers when collective bargaining rights are at risk.

1. Sign no health care bill that does not have a public option.

Plus an extra: Passing the union "card check" law will be a top priority.


The above is not my list, but it is a good one. Thank you to the real Democrat that posted it earlier today.

[Angry Dragon]

7. Arrest bush administration for torture

to prove no one is above the law

[RKP5637]

10. And some of the corporate gangsters we support. n/t

[RKP5637]

8. Yeah, I saw that list earlier today, it is a good list of questions. n/t

[Shiver]

9. I was going to post this in the thread you took that from, but it was locked.

So I'll respond to it here. In regards to the first one ("#10"), the link given ( http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/promise/177/close-the-guantanamo-bay-detention-center/ ) contains a long, long article that should probably be read by anyone who considers this a broken promise. Here's a snippet.

"As the Administration has long stated, it is essential that the government have the ability to use both military commissions and federal courts as tools to keep this country safe," Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said in a released statement. "Unfortunately, some in Congress have unwisely sought to undermine this process by imposing restrictions that challenge the Executive Branch"s ability to bring to justice terrorists who seek to do Americans harm. We oppose those restrictions and will continue to seek their repeal."

That's hardly giving up, many experts argue.

Mason Clutter, policy counsel for the Constitution Project, a bipartisan group that has called for shutting the prison, pointed to a provision of the order that reads: "In the event detainees covered by this order are transferred from Guantanamo to another U.S. detention facility where they remain in law of war detention, this order shall continue to apply to them."

That suggests the administration is still committed to pursuing other alternatives to Guantanamo, Clutter said,

So does she think that will happen by the end of an Obama first term?

"Absolutely not," Clutter said.

There are still 172 people being held at Guantanamo, Clutter said. Congress has pretty well tied the administration's hands, prohibiting prosecution in U.S. federal courts and making it extremely difficult to transfer them to other countries, according to Clutter.

[crikkett]

14. Gitmo has been running for NINE YEARS

and the fact that my country is running a gulag is unconscionable.

In my youth I was bombarded with messages to support the government so that we don't become like the Soviets.

We are so very much like Soviet Russia right now. We become our enemy so completely, I fear that in a few years' time I won't be able to go outside without a burqa.

(Maybe I'll need it to dodge plutonium fallout)

[louis-t]

13. Mine has always been:

"Why do you care what republicans think?"

[harun]

15. Are you a capitalist?