Obama's '08 campaign won the biggest margin of victory in the last 30+ years. Within hours of his inauguration, Republicans went to dinner and agreed to oppose him on every single item. Two years later, they won 63 House seats and 6 Senate seats.
Reposted from
Murshed Zaheed
So this the kind of Trump admin that progressives on the Hill and some leftists want to play clever game of footsie with around issues on anti trust and credit card fees?
Comments
https://youtu.be/MAbab8aP4_A
If republicans want to break the machine, then accept that is what they want.
And break the machine towards your goals.
Don't work with Republicans. Break them.
Don't work towards political unity. Break it.
They act the way they do because they are sure that we will not act as they do. They lift the limits on power because they want no limit on their power.
But they lift those limits certain we won't exercise power like they do.
They are like the psycho at the end of the Patrick Bateman movie.
https://youtu.be/gE6AVp-2Jic?t=1m38s
We provide no catharsis. There is no deeper knowledge gained. Punishment eludes them.
And when we sacrifice our ideals, our goals, and the welfare of our people for the benefit of the Parliamentarian?
We not only lose, but we fail to lose well.
https://digbysblog.net/2011/01/05/losing-well-can-be-win/
Order is not the goal.
We don't fight for order, we fight for justice. We fight for a world made more humane. We fight for the welfare of children and elderly.
We don't sacrifice goals to preserve order.
we're playing chess, they're playing tackle football.
If we're not willing to play as rough as they are, we have to be prepared to lose, again and again.
ALL of this is because we had the GALL to elect a black man to the level of POTUS.
& also this authoritarianism is happening globally, remember
But yeah they were/are big mad about Obama, no shit
This one was very much about punishing women for having the gall to want to live their damn lives not under the thumb of abusive men, even before Harris.
And still is.
Can you please keep this at the forefront of your analysis and your plans to fight this shit?
In general, I am gonna go with improv rule #1 here when it comes to "what went wrong:" the answer starts "yes, and"
Alternately, it could've been even stronger bc oligarchs don't like pushback, too
but, use your imagination.
all's I know is that genteel deference is so very much not the answer, ever
Billionaires cannot exist in a democratic society. They’ll always use their power to feudalise all of us.
or this Clockwork Orange shit show.
Which is the vote total that matters.
(0 = 1980 value, 1 = 2020 value)
Walking past Tea Party members who spit & hurled crude insults.
Attempting to confirm their “bravery”. Pffft
Democrats are bad at being good.
Big. Mistake.
Meanwhile, be relentless! Do not give ground. Make every nomination painful. Make every vote perilous.
Say democrats do nothing but obstruct. who would Americans blame?
There are no excuses for him
What democrats should do is stand up for issues americans want someone to fight for like social security. If the obstruction isn't target D will get crushed
The leadership tried to implement some of it, but by 2015 when Tr*mp came along, it all went out the window when he proved people don’t want actual real policies, just lies targeting the same people they hate.
American democracy tends to fail because of the broken two party system.
What are the winds in Democrats' sail?
Fight every damn thing the MAGAts do.
Fight them every day.
Hang every bad thing in the world around their necks like albatross.
Blame them. Blame them loudly. Blame them incessantly.
Channel the rage we all feel. Direct it at the evil people fucking us all over.
This is how we win.
EVERY DAY. ON SOCIAL MEDIA. ON NEWS MEDIA HITS.
GO AFTER THEM.
OBAMA WILL TAKE YOUR GUNS!
OBAMA ISN'T AN AMERICAN!
OBAMA IS CREATING DEATH PANELS!
OBAMA IS TRYING TO DESTROY THE US!
MICHELLE IS A MAN!
I think we've underestimated the success of their lying.
Citizens United was an anti Hillary PAC in 2008.
It had nothing to do with Obama.
But the DECISION opened up the tidal wave of dark money that has polluted our politics ever case.
Do you know when Dems have had a majority on the SCOTUS that could've overturned that ruling?
1968.
So what exactly was Obama supposed to do with "a noun, a verb, the 10th amendment" Alito controlling the courts?
My point was that Citizens United was a big reason for why Democrats suffered such big midterm losses in 2010.
Being evil works better than being good
Democrats as a whole should be lockstep against Trump.
The 08 housing crash was RIGHT on the edge of being a full-blown depression to the level of the Great Depression.
Obama had his faults, but he could only do so much.
P. J. O'Rourke
...are ready to keep fighting, the way we were ready to support Kamala for POTUS
Sad to say, it doesn't seem like the Dem party & esp Dem leaders are ready or willing to do the same
I know it's not just me; LOTS OF US seem disturbed by the deafening silence from Dems
I'd feel a lot better about fighting TFG & MAGA in '25 if I thought the Dem party was w us
Democrats will get no brownie points for "working with" Trump. They'd be best to be an "official opposition" right out of the gate.
While Dems ragged on him because Obama beat Romney, McConnell had changed the math and put himself in a position to take a Supreme Court seat
There is lierally no reason to parley with these people. They are Lucy with the football. Beat them and let them choke and suffocate and die until the adults have the room back.
Pass all Blame, especially for things they did do
Proclaim Greatness
MAGA