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Last time I had any bumper sticker it was "Eschew Obfuscation" on a '66 Dodge Coronet. That was always good for some laughs.
My bumpers now are non-metal, and anyway I don't like subjecting my car to vandalism. I just send the money I would have spent on a bumper sticker to the candidate - and then some.
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01/24/2010 13:57 Comments ||
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Obama: Yes we got troubles.
Right here in America.
Trouble starts with a "T" and rhymes with "B"
And that spells Bush
How about not buying everything thing the left has to sell for starters.
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Every time I see an Obama bumper sticker on the car in front of me, I have the urge to ram it.
Posted by: Dave D. ||
01/24/2010 20:19 Comments ||
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no need, Dave. They are obviously insured up the wazoo. Just cut in front and slam on your brakes. Their insurance will pay for it with no costs passed on to the public. Then you sue them for pain and suffering, noting your tax rate in the Obama regime
Posted by: Frank G ||
01/24/2010 20:29 Comments ||
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> What to Do With A Big O Bumper Sticker?
Fly to Poland and try to get arrested selling them as Communist symbols are banned there.
President Barack Obama and top congressional Democrats insist they will push ahead with efforts to overhaul healthcare, though they aren't explaining how they will proceed in that uphill fight.
The president acknowledged Friday that the effort ran into a "bit of a buzz saw" of opposition. And a leading member of his party suggested Congress slow it down on healthcare, a sign of eroding political will in the wake of Tuesday's Republican election upset in Massachusetts.
Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., who ushered the overhaul legislation through the Senate's health committee last year after the death of his friend, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, said Obama and lawmakers could "maybe take a breather for a month, six weeks."
Just a week ago, the health legislation had appeared on the cusp of passage after Obama threw himself into marathon negotiations with congressional leaders to work out differences between the House and Senate bills.
"There are things that have to get done. This is our best chance to do it. We can't keep on putting this off," Obama said Friday at a town hall meeting in Elyria, Ohio, warning listeners that spiraling medical costs threaten to bankrupt them and the country unless Congress acts.
"I am not going to walk away just because it's hard," the president said.
In his remarks, Obama seemed to pull back from a suggestion he made Wednesday that lawmakers unite behind the elements of the legislation everyone can agree on. Obama said that approach presented problems because some of the popular ideas, like new requirements on insurance companies, couldn't be done without getting many more people insured.
"A lot of these insurance reforms are connected to some other things we have to do to make sure that everybody has some access to coverage," he said. For example, insurers wouldn't be able to end a practice like denying coverage to people with pre-existing health conditions unless more people were covered. Otherwise people could wait until they got sick to buy insurance and premiums could skyrocket.
Obama has used immense political capital to advance the healthcare overhaul and remake a system that has frustrated past administrations, most recently Democrat Bill Clinton in 1994. Whether he can succeed where others have failed is now anything but clear, and Obama seemed to acknowledge as much.
"Here's the good news. We've gotten pretty far down the road, but I have to admit, we had a little bit of a buzz saw this week," the president said.
"I understand that, why after the Massachusetts election people in Washington were all in a tizzy, trying to figure out what this means for health reform, Republicans and Democrats: What does it mean for Obama? Is he weakened? Is he, oh, how's he going to survive this?" Obama said. "But I want you to understand, this is not about me. This is about you."
It was Kennedy's longtime Senate seat that changed party hands on Tuesday with the victory of Republican Scott Brown, a bitter irony for Democrats since universal health coverage had been Kennedy's lifelong goal, and Brown has pledged to be the GOP's decisive 41st vote against overhaul legislation.
Notwithstanding the comments from Dodd, who is not seeking re-election this year, Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., have both insisted the health care legislation will go forward though they haven't said how. Reid spokesman Jim Manley said that plans to push ahead haven't changed.
Lawmakers ended the week with no clear path, though aides promised to work through the weekend to look for a compromise, possibly one that could allow the Senate to act with a simple majority instead of the 60-vote supermajority Democrats now lack.
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01/24/2010 09:12 ||
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Go for it, dipshits.
You really liked being the minority party, didn't you?
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
01/24/2010 11:02 Comments ||
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Barry has no choice. His entire future to include any chance for a second term are wrapped into this colossal, multi-thousand page patronage, midnight basketball, and wealth- redistro giveaway scheme. I fully anticipate the dems will attempt a simple majority vote.
#3
I have no doubt they will. Zero may have gotten shocked but he won't be dissuaded since he thinks he is so much smarter than us lowly proles. However hands across the aisle the Dems may sound right now after the Mass. Miracle, they will simply change tactics. You can bet they will employ any sort of slight of hand to get this done the millisecond they think they can get away with it.
Don't let your guard down for an instant with this rabid pack of Anti Americans.
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They keep this ramrodding, partisan, behind-the-scenes crap, with midnight votes, closed meetings, vote-before-you-read, and so on as their method of operating, then they will lose their majority in November and Obama is toast in 2012.
The nice thing is that the MSM is thoroughly destroying any credibility they may have left, and is in the process of destroying themselves with their complicity and lack of questioning in this mess.
David Plouffe, who led Barack Obama's winning campaign for the White House, will play a larger role in advising the president as reeling Democrats try to rally in this important election year.
Plouffe's primary job on behalf of the White House will be to devise, coordinate and analyze strategies for the House, Senate and governor's races in November, according to an administration official.
The Pluhf-ster has two major jobs on his resumé:
1) Obama for America -- in which he convinced a nation to elect an inexperienced cypher to the highest office in the land
2) Organizing for America -- in which he utterly failed to convince a nation to follow said cypher
Oh, the circus has barely started ...
As one of Obama's most trusted advisers, Plouffe clearly will have a larger imprint, operating through the Democratic National Committee and Organizing for America, Obama's political organization.
The timing is significant because Democrats, just one year after Obama came into office, are the ones on the defensive now.
The upset victory by Republican Scott Brown in Massachusetts in claiming the seat long held by Democrat Edward Kennedy embodied a national sense of frustration in the economy and Washington's ability to fix it. Obama has bemoaned a public sense of detachment from what he's been trying to accomplish, and now Senate Democrats have lost the 60-vote bloc they need to overcome Republican opposition to Obama's health care plan.
So re-emerging is Plouffe. The administration official said Plouffe always was going to play a larger role at some point after finishing his campaign book, but a change in the political environment accelerated the timetable.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal decision-making, said no one at the White House was in line to be demoted because of Plouffe's arrival.
Obama asked Plouffe to get more involved. Even before the polls closed in the special election to succeed Kennedy, who died in August, the president called Plouffe to the White House to talk.
The next day, Plouffe said that Brown's victory was not a repudiation of Obama's agenda, as Republican leaders suggested. He expressed some outspoken frustration, though, about the effort by Democratic candidate Martha Coakley, saying "even a mediocre campaign in Massachusetts probably would have won."
Plouffe (pronounced pluhf) has remained in regular touch with Obama and White House staff, and been an advocate for Obama's health care plans.
On the night Obama won election, the candidate hailed Plouffe as an unsung hero and promoted him as the leader of nothing less than the best campaign in U.S. history.
Most governor's seats, more than one-third of the Senate, all 435 House districts and state legislatures will be on the general election ballot this year. Democrats must protect far more seats than Republicans, and the political environment is not in their favor. The outcomes could significantly affect Obama's agenda.
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Plouffe - pronounced "puff".
OK now! Time to start campaigning for 2012! We can do this! (But not much else....)
#2
I seem to recall an episode of the TV sitcom "Get Smart" where American indians had gathered together to attack the United States in order to take over.
One of the chief's advisors upon realizing the immensity of the task remarked,
Green Meadows: Red Cloud, this is bad medicine! The United States has three million soldiers. We have but two hundred braves.
Red Cloud: [whispering] We must depend heavily on the element of surprise.
Obama and his advisor cannot depend as much on a pliant press and a gullible public for the midterms, but they will, and with predictable results.
#6
Valerie Jarrett, Axelrod, and assorted Liars were hitting the mews shows today. They weren't successful. Even David Gregory (D-NBC) couldn't stomach Jarrett's bullshit
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Frank,similar to Gibbs at Fox? That was pretty hysterical.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- U.S. Democratic Party campaign strategy manager David Plouffe says now is not the time for "bed-wetting" after the party lost a Massachusetts Senate election.
Plouffe, appointed by President Barack Obama to staunch further Democratic losses after Republican Scott Brown last week won the seat once held by the late Edward Kennedy, listed "no bed-wetting" in a Sunday Washington Post opinions piece as among the actions the party must take to recover in time for the 2010 midterm elections.
"This will be a tough election for our party and for many Republican incumbents as well," Plouffe wrote. "Instead of fearing what may happen, let's prove that we have more than just the brains to govern -- that we have the guts to govern."
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