Some mad hornets

[samintx]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022631964

[cbelt3]

Not a surprise. Obama isn't lefty enough for his party, and not rightie enough for the Republican wingers.

Compromise is not the art of satisfying everyone. It's the art of pissing everyone off equally.

[SteveG]

More Socialist Muslim tricks from The Commie? Or maybe he's not what you constantly allege?

[August West]

[hal]

LOTS of liberals and democrats do not approve of many of Obama's policies. This is never a surprise to us, but seems to shock some who fully believe that ALL liberals walk in lockstep with Obama at all times.

Obama is NOT a liberal, a marxist nor a socialist... he's standing right in the middle - that's how he got elected.

[$tevie]

hal wrote:
LOTS of liberals and democrats do not approve of many of Obama's policies. This is never a surprise to us, but seems to shock some who fully believe that ALL liberals walk in lockstep with Obama at all times.

That's what I've been trying to say all week.

I'm one of those hornets, by the way. I'm really ticked off at Obama for this one.

[max]

$tevie wrote:
[quote=hal]
LOTS of liberals and democrats do not approve of many of Obama's policies. This is never a surprise to us, but seems to shock some who fully believe that ALL liberals walk in lockstep with Obama at all times.

That's what I've been trying to say all week.
DId Obama did not wear the right color tie today, again?
Oh, right, all those life crushing "disappointments"...

[Ted King]

It was a bit risky on Obama's part to put the cuts to Social Security's budget in his overall budget, but I'm sure there were well thought out political motives for doing so. It seems plausible that one of those motives is that he can now anchor himself on the position that he has given on the holy grail of entitlements so it's time for the Republicans to give on their holy grail of no taxes increases. Staking out such a position probably won't make any difference to the Republicans in the House this year but it could give Obama a good "intransigent Republicans" card to play in the 2014 elections. I think he may be trying to gather up as many as those cards as he can.

[$tevie]

Ted King wrote:
It was a bit risky on Obama's part to put the cuts to Social Security's budget in his overall budget, but I'm sure there were well thought out political motives for doing so. It seems plausible that one of those motives is that he can now anchor himself on the position that he has given on the holy grail of entitlements so it's time for the Republicans to give on their holy grail of no taxes increases. Staking out such a position probably won't make any difference to the Republicans in the House this year but it could give Obama a good "intransigent Republicans" card to play in the 2014 elections. I think he may be trying to gather up as many as those cards as he can.

Oh, that is the same crap he pulled for his entire first term. If he can't figure out that all that does is alienate his base, without making any new friends to make up for them, then I simply don't know what to say.

[Dennis S]

He's better than the alternative is all I can say.