tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5521176835506338904.post8113024797661949765..comments2023-05-08T05:55:48.069-07:00Comments on Give Us This Day Our Daily Dread: Apathetic is as Apathetic Doesjurassicporkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01673461210301442978noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5521176835506338904.post-2621975292648271442010-11-04T12:53:06.271-07:002010-11-04T12:53:06.271-07:00Oh, I didn't forget how the Dems have stabbed ...Oh, I didn't forget how the Dems have stabbed us in the back time and again and that that's the biggest reason they got trounced last Tuesday. But I've been screaming about that for months, if not years. I just thought focusing on the voters' non-involvement was more germane to this post. And anyone on the left who didn't vote, IMHO, doesn't deserve to carry our banner. If they were really representative of the left, they would've voted. Yet they didn't.jurassicporkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01673461210301442978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5521176835506338904.post-26011964588475585972010-11-04T07:27:48.112-07:002010-11-04T07:27:48.112-07:00I love you Pork and you’re not wrong but I also ha...I love you Pork and you’re not wrong but I also have to agree with Anthony. I did vote, so I can complain. Obama lost me when he made the 80 billion dollar, behind closed doors, deal with big pharma. Another thing that really pissed me off was the credit card reform. There are millions of people like me that are now paying jacked up interest rates on pre-existing balances. The bill passed but didn’t go into effect for months, allowing the banks to rape all the customers like me who were never late on a payment. The Democrats blew it. In this post Citizens United world democracy is owned by the corporations. I'm glad that I'm old and have no grandchildren.<br />MikeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5521176835506338904.post-57934729985781135572010-11-03T18:09:13.312-07:002010-11-03T18:09:13.312-07:00Ahhhh....I have news for you, jpork.
Blaming thos...Ahhhh....I have news for you, jpork.<br /><br />Blaming those of us on the Left who saw through the BS behind the Obama/DLC Democratic Dog and Phony Show for what happened yesterday might make you feel better...but it misses the issue.<br /><br />The fault plainly rides with Obama and the Democrats for breaking promise after promise after promise; for treating his most valued and fervernt supporters like so much toxic waste while treating his mortal enemies (those who would rather kill him..and US) like allies to be wined and dined, and for basically playing "bait and switch" with our most cherished progressive principles. <br /><br />From the "public option" transformed into the Big Insura "forced mandate" bailout, to TARP without any bit of real accountability, to the refusal to indict and convict the war crimes of the Bush era and even going as far as to EXTEND and EXPAND those same policies; to the epic shadow boxing of DADT and ENDA, to the Repubican-lite stimulus package which still managed to get not one vote from even the "moderate" Republican he so often wooed; to the frequent slamming of legitimate progressive critics and collorary pandering to the most reactionary; to the inaction and waffling during the BP Oil Spill....need I go on?? <br /><br />This administration and the leaders of this party simpy took a supermajority offered it by a majority of the American people and simply booted it away to benefit the Wall Street/Pentagon/DLC cronies...while simply allowing the Tea Party and the New Old Right who has always dominated the GOP to not only set the terms of debate, but also supply the table, the chairs, the microphone, and even the script.<br /><br />And with all that, they still couldn't improve the economy, and were still abandoned by the very corporate people to whom they were so busy brownnosing.<br /><br />In other words, the Democrats attempted to pretend to be snake charmers, and simply got bit.<br /><br />[continued -- Anthony]Anthony Kennersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00103420620416144653noreply@blogger.com