You do understand that the House of Reps control funding in the federal gov’t, yes? Ah, forget it, you probably don’t understand that … Obama SUX!!!

Riiiiiight … this has NOTHING to do with Republicans blocking funding for the task force. It’s all Obama. He should just poop out $50M and be done with it, am I right ?

It’s been just 90 days and we’re talking about DC. If you really thought that such an endeavor would be fully operational and staffed-up by now, then you are either (a) fooling yourself or (b) fooling your readers to prove a point. I’m pretty sure I know which one of those is correct.

If the argument in this posting is that with reconciliation that only 51 votes would be needed that’s fine. But having
“the largest Democratic majority in Congress in a generation” with 60 Dems in the caucus makes no difference and is, as I said, irrelevant.

Also, it is the Senate majority leader, not the POTUS, who needs to make things like reconciliation happen.

Harry Reid’s inability to out-manuever the minority party was the biggest obstacle to better legislation in 2009/10. We would have enough votes for BOTH cap & trade AND a public option to health care reform.

Oh, give me a break with this baloney:

Obama “only” had the largest Democratic majority in Congress in a generation

Of those “60 Dem votes” were Lieberman, Nelson, Liendreu and Tester, conservatives who all commonly vote with Republicans.

For you to imply that they would all vote as a single voting bloc where it not for Obama is utterly ridiculous.

So if this gets argues in front of the SCOTUS, will A. Scalia recuse himself?

Really? 2+ years and STILL the obsession over the “Public Option”?

Good grief.

No wonder conservative activists are such much better and more effective at actually WINNING!!

Well, good luck trying to find an arena in NC that holds 70k+ that has a corporate sponsorship that you actually approve of.

Obama will lose, Repubs will take the Senate & maintain the House.

At least the Blue Dogs are history and FDL readers will be rid of their nemesis, Obama.

And so Congress can & will, once again, dictate policy in regards to Gitmo and the Afghanistan peace process.

And still FDL commentors will blame Obama for Gitmo still being in existence, while calling Obama incompetent.

Which is funny, because incompetence is not being able to comprehend that the real problem is in our U.S. Congress.

I just hope Romney selects a VP, Sec of State & Defense that are not complete lunatics when he wins next November.

BTW, didn’t Willard spend a lot of time & energy ridiculing Obama’s bus that looks just as pimped-out as Romney’s in that picture ??

It would be much easier to stop that sort of nonsense if there were a liberal or progressive alternative to Rupert Murdoch.

That’s really just trying to assess cause & effect and it depends on how much influence you think that special interests have on politicians. I tend to think it is a little bit of both: political survival instincts when reading polls together with hordes of lobbyists and special interest ca$h.

Yes, agreed, that is true

I agree with that assessment. I just don’t agree with beating up politicians who don’t play along with progressive purity, especially when they see polling like Gallup’s. There is a reason that Democrats agonizingly tack to the Right or the Center too often and this is why.

Read the Gallup link here.

Obama is seen as the most radical (too Liberal) in their poll, even further away from American’s mean ideological leaning than Michelle Bachmann on the Right.

You trust Pew more than Gallup? Gallup today published their poll showing that Obama is see as “too liberal”: http://www.gallup.com/poll/151814/Americans-Huntsman-Romney-Paul-Closest-Ideologically.aspx.

Maybe that’s because they use the term “liberal” instead of “progressive”.

Regardless, the public actually sees Obama as more radical (to the Left) of their own ideology than Michelle Bachmann!

The conservative candidates (including Romney) are seen as closely aligned with American’s ideology, which means that most Americans consider themselves Conservative.

FDL comments are nothing more than troll terds anymore.

Repubs protecting Social Security?

I think I’m going to barf …