The party needs to focus almost exclusively on JOBS from this moment on until November

[TwixVoy]

It needs to be JOBS JOBS JOBS. The poor and middle class MUST feel like they have hope for a better future, and it is damn hard to do that after being laid off and you are working at McDonalds or stocking shelves.

We have added millions on millions to the unemployment rolls in the past 12 months. These millions will come out and blame the party in power. That is a simple political FACT. The republicans will be promising them jobs, a better future, whatever they want to hear. All they will know is they haven't seen anything under a democratic watch.

We are in danger of losing a seat in one of the most liberal states in the union. If the party doesn't start working on a better life for the poor and middle class NOW it is going to be a complete cluster fuck blood bath in November. The corporate hand outs need to stop NOW.

[stray cat]

1. Give up on health care, education, bank and wall street regulation, alternative energy etc?

[TwixVoy]

2. Put it on the back burner

it is clearly fucking obvious we can't even get simple health care reform that is anything other than a corporate hand out. Here is a news flash Cat - we won't be able to get JACK SHIT if we lose congress 10 months from now. And being forced to buy health care (with most reforms taking YEARS to even begin to kick in) doesn't do a damn thing for someone out of work who is looking at foreclosure and losing everything in a few months. They need JOBS. (and I mean real jobs outside of the "service sector" that can actually sustain a person and a family)

The republicans clearly have been successful at derailing any real reforms. Obviously real reform isn't going to happen in the next 10 months. It needs to go on the back burner and we need JOB CREATION in significant amounts BEFORE THE NOVEMBER ELECTIONS. Once we have secured congress we can pass reforms, but if the republicans take power in November you can kiss any hope of that goodbye.

[tonysam]

10. Obama should have been on this his first day in office.

These handouts to the banking industry, this idiotic health care bill, these things have been nothing but a waste in political capital.

Health care "reform" doesn't mean SHIT if you don't have the money to pay the bills.

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[Mojambo]

3. Given this administration's preferred solutions on health care and wall street

I fear we'd get nothing better than a supply side "solution" to job creation.

Which would basically entail big corporate tax breaks with toothless regulation added to try and keep jobs here.

[TwixVoy]

5. Then if that's true

we might as well kiss our ass and our country goodbye. If the republicans gain power again we WILL go in to another great depression. There will be no avoiding it. They will send the last ounce of wealth the poor and middle class have to the top 1% who will then flee the country and leave us on what will essentially be the Titanic.

[Mojambo]

11. I think it's entirely likely to happen that way. n/t

[Ozymanithrax]

4. Only if 41 Republican Senators let us.

I mean, if Jobs...Jobs...Jobs is bad for them, it will be No...No...No...!

We have to pass the legislation, and a Brown win makes that very dificult.

[TwixVoy]

7. Bull shit

The republicans got everything they wanted during the bush years - much of that time they had less seats than we do. So why the fuck can they do it but we can't?

[Ozymanithrax]

15. Because the Democrats were no obstructionists.

Because the Democrats thought it was important to govern, even with a Republican in the White House.

That ain't bullshit. It is just plain fact.

[dkf]

6. This election was about priorities priorities priorities.

Should have worked on supporting small business.

[bridgit]

8. Jobs are reported as the #1 concern on Americans - HCR #4

HCR would have been higher up the list but the Obama Admin seemed to just sit there for months while tea-bagging shit-heads controlled the message, the news cycles and the game ball

[OhioChick]

13. Well said and you're absolutely right. K&R n/t

[Edweird]

14. Yes, but it needs to be real jobs., Not tax cuts. Not corporatist bullshit.

They need to lose their taste for corporate c@ck.