"Congressional Democrats’ new agenda targets GOP; Scaled-back bills aim for populist appeal" by Susan Milligan, Globe Staff | February 21, 2010
WASHINGTON - Leaders of the majority party are hoping these steps will help them seize the populist fervor that has been boosting Republican candidates. Democrats insist they haven’t given up on passing sweeping legislation on such issues as health care, climate change, and financial regulation. But they want to rebrand the party as the advocate of those hit hard by the recession.
They have had THREE YEARS to do something -- and NEVER USED the FILIBUSTER in the past, so F*** THEM and their election-year conversion!
Yeah, DemocraPs ALL of a SUDDEN become representatives of the common man EVERY FOUR YEARS -- right round election time.
The strategy is also intended to force Republicans into stark choices pitting the frustrated voter against moneyed special interests.
So it is ALL POLITICS and IMAGE DOWN THERE and NOT really about YOU at all, voters! And NEVER MIND that BOTH PARTIES are working for the $$$ now.
Republicans have “always had the angry white men. Now it’s angry adults,’’ said Representative Michael Capuano, a Somerville Democrat. “We’ve always been slow on that one - always.’’
I guess he would know ALL ABOUT ANGER, huh?
See: Selecting a Senator: Mad Mike
Putting up smaller, popular ideas for votes could rack up Democratic legislative victories after a year of setbacks and help thwart a GOP that has rapidly been gaining steam among independents, Capuano said.
Issues of economic fairness could also be addressed. Representative John Tierney, Democrat of Salem, is working with colleagues on legislation to cap interest rates on credit cards.
Related:
"For decades, many states had usury laws capping credit-card interest rates as low as 6 percent. But those rules were upended in 1978"
So WHAT HAS TAKEN SO LONG for you to address this issue, Democrats?
Just starting work on that NOW?
Btw, BANKS got THEIR TAX LOOT in a DAY, Americans!
Why must YOU WAIT YEARS for things that NEVER HAPPEN and are JUST TALK?!!
Democrats have had years to get this s*** through and "failed."
It's JUST POLITIC, isn't it, American voters.
Just BULLS*** IMAGERY for the public because it DOES NOT MATTER what letter is by the name NOTHING CHANGES!!!
Representative Paul Hodes , Democrat of New Hampshire, is pushing legislation to impose a 50 percent tax on Wall Street bonuses exceeding $400,000 if those firms also received federal bailout money. The receipts from the tax would be used to pay down the federal debt, a goal of many populist activists.
Too late!
He's done anyway. See: Democratic Drop-Outs
“If the Republicans vote for it, it’s a bipartisan bill. And if they don’t, it’s grist for the mill,’’ said Brendan Daly, spokesman for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California.
And YOU THINK PLAYING POLITICS with OUR SUFFERING after DOING NOTHING is going to win us over, DemocraPs! You guys area LOT MORE DELUDED and STOO-PID than I thought.
Republicans have made substantial strides by tapping voter anger over increases in the jobless rate, government spending, and the federal deficit. The conservative Tea Party movement, which helped elect Massachusetts GOP Senator Scott Brown, are fueling support for other Republican candidates. Democrats, who have long seen themselves as the voice of the working people, are anxiously trying to get back their support.
You had it and lost it, and you aren't getting it back.
Democrats blame themselves - not for policy missteps, but for what they call a poor job at getting their message across.
Yup, ONCE AGAIN DELUDING THEMSELVES!! It IS the POLICIES, STOO-PIDS!!!!
The health care package they thought would be so popular has instead been picked apart....
Yeah, they are OUT of TOUCH and DELUDED!!
Of course, that's pretty easy when you have your head stuck up your ass.
Of course, if you are angry you are a some sort of racist "terrorist" according to the agenda-pushing War Daily s*** sheets.
That seems to be the gist of this next article:
"Anger at Washington puts Democrats at risk in Appalachia; Disaffected area is battleground in fall elections" by Amy Gardner, Washington Post | February 21, 2010
WISE, Va. - The anger at Washington that is seeping across the country registered a while back in the high ridges of Appalachia, a once-indomitable Democratic stronghold where voters turned away from President Obama in 2008 just as overwhelmingly as they embraced him most everywhere else.
Voters in Virginia’s Ninth Congressional District are mad that the government has spent hundreds of billions to fix an economy that seems only to deteriorate around them. They’re fearful of a federal takeover of health care. They’re petrified that proposed emissions limits would destroy the coal industry that provides most of the region’s jobs. And they want no part of a president they view as elitist and unlike them.
That anger, combined with the area’s traditional Democratic ties, makes this mountainous region - and a wider, rural arc from southern Ohio to Arkansas - a prime battleground in this year’s congressional elections. Democrats have been losing ground here for a generation, but 2008 brought a seismic party shift that Republicans hope to make stick in November. Already, four of the region’s remaining Democrats have announced their retirements.
I'm at the point where I say WHO GIVES a SHIT?!
Changing a LETTER by a NAME means NOTHING!
We elected Democrats in 2006 to END the WARS and COUNTERACT BUSH and we got MORE WAR and everything Bush wanted he got from the Democrat Congress.
So we gave them a filibuster-proof majority and the presidency and they couldn't get anything done? Didn't end the wars (only escalated them) and we didn't even get the single-payer health plan 80% of us wanted.
Haven't you had ENOUGH EXPERIENCE with that the last four years, America?!!
Even Representative Rick Boucher, a 14-term incumbent who hasn’t faced a strong challenger since the Reagan years, is in peril, prompting him to shift into campaign mode months earlier than usual and before Republicans have chosen his opponent. Whether he - and other Democrats like him - can hold on will probably determine whether his party can continue to control Congress.
They may keep it, but it's going to be a very slim margin.
Way to BLOW IT, Democrats!
Boucher’s support of the coal industry and efforts to modernize the local economy give Democrats their best chance to hold a seat they can’t afford to lose.
Well, if their fate rests on ONE SEAT they have LOST ALREADY!
And I see nothing out there -- not even a false flag terror attack -- helping Democrats. Government and MSM have LIED for SO LONG about the economy that even if it really does pick up Americans won't believe it.
But in a year when incumbency appears to be as much a burden as a boon, Boucher’s race will be a test of whether the intensity of anti-Washington anger will outweigh the power of long-standing service.
Oh, is that what looting the public is for personal profit called? Service?
To win, Boucher will attempt to keep the race local, focused on what he has done for his district in his years in Congress. Republicans will attempt to nationalize the race, casting Boucher as just another Democratic vote for a socialist president and his liberal friends in Congress....
See, you can say the truth, but it will be spun to serve the agenda-pushing s***ters when it reaches the newspaper.
In Wise County, about 400 miles southwest of Washington, the area’s Democratic loyalties have faded with the decline of coal and the union workers who manned the mines. That trend has been exacerbated by an aversion to Obama, who has precipitated a dramatic shift in party leanings and an open antipathy.
Translation: Keep your opinions to yourself.
Over biscuits, grits, and eggs at the Huddle House restaurant on a recent snowy morning, home builder Wayne Sturgill said 2008 was the best year his business ever had - and 2009 the worst since the 1970s.
In Virginia?
Sturgill blames Obama: “We got a carbon copy of Jimmy Carter up there,’’ he said, prompting his pals to nod in agreement.
Richard Holmes, 61, a property manager sitting in the next booth, leaned around with a wide grin that was followed by an off-color joke about Obama and stimulus spending.
Yup, if you are against Obama and the agenda in any way you are a racist.
“Oh, yeah,’’ construction worker David Graham, 34, said, laughing. “If you think you got an extra dollar left, he’ll come back around for you!’’
Residents talk often of their “pridefulness’’ and independence. But they feel like criminals when politicians try to take their guns away, like children when they’re told they need health care, and like villains when coal is blamed for destroying the environment although it provides most of the region’s jobs and half of the nation’s power.
Who can blame them when that is the way the MSM portray them?
They assume that Obama doesn’t get any of this - or doesn’t care.
“He wants to be a damn dictator,’’ said Alex Hill, 70, a retired miner, police officer and onetime moonshiner, while getting his hair trimmed at Peoples Barber Shop on Main Street in Wise.
Well, BUSH LEFT him the PLANS in PLACE!!
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Have to give the MSM credit; this article was a nice job of diversion, division, and deception.
