You know what I think is happening.

[madokie]

The president offered the olive branch and done it out in the open up front for all to see and have let us see the :puke: slap it away each and every time. (only the rabid partisans haven't seen it, the rest of us have) He picked a good fight when he picked our present deathcare cause we all do really want affordable and accessible healthcare. So he's letting these jerks show their asses right here up front so they can get it all out of the way. (just now is he starting to put the pressure on them and he knows he has the majority of the people on his side too, because he's seen and been hearing it). He is going to shame them to work with the Dems as they are actually elected to do or just plow them off to the side as they should. As he's pointed out just saying no on everything is not leadership. He's playing them like a fiddle and they're too stoopid to see it. They of course being the :puke:lics

[spanone]

1. k&r

[Brickbat]

2. I just wish the Dems would take the next step and start moving legislation without worrying about

being filibustered. Because seriously, I fail to see what would be bad about the Republicans filibustering health care.

[madokie]

4. I say make them do it

not let them get away with a threat. I suspect its a good ol boy agreement that I won't do it to you if you won't do it to me and that way we can have an excuse for why we're not getting anything done so we can keep looting the registry, bastids anyway, all of 'em. bastids

[tularetom]

3. That pretty much sums it up

[NYC_SKP]

5. I don't wanna jinx it, but I think you're on to something. K, R.

I've thought all along that he's going to play nice for the first year, give them all the rope they need, give them a chance to work with him and Dems in doing the right thing.

He remained detached and calm throughout the madness of wasted negative energy and teabagging, including bullshit from some Dems, until now.

Now it's time to expose them and blow right through them.

The SOTU address was the launch pad for this.

:patriot:

[madokie]

8. I'd bet money on that being the case

and I'm not a betting man. He has slapped the piss out of them these last few days and I'm and I'm sure many others are hhhappy to see it FINALLY Yes mr President you win when you fight, and don't forget that.

[Froward69]

6. unreccing FReepers are about...

[MineralMan]

7. The unreccers aren't all Freepers, I'm afraid.

[madokie]

9. It matters not

what matters is that he has the backing of the majority immediately as soon as he takes up the ball as he has done. I can't wait to see where his numbers will be after today and the SOTU speech. It won't be a hollow bump either, this time it'll be solid. He'll be going into the last 3 years of this term dictating and not being led around like the pukeies were thinking he was gonna be. He's played them to be the fools they are,

[MineralMan]

10. I agree with you. I think this new approach should be the

one he takes from now on. "I gave you a year and all you did was say No. Your year is up. Now I'm going to insist you do your jobs. If you do not, I will make sure the voters in your state know that."

[madokie]

12. Its been a thing of beauty

I've been telling my friends that this day is gonna come. From here on out every time the President is having a question and answer press conference the pukies will be shit'n down both legs. I didn't think that President Obama ran for President to just let these tired old bastids crush him as it seems has been happening, albeit for stated reason. Give 'em enough rope and they'll hang themselves is an old saying that fits this one perfectly.

[hootinholler]

11. I wish he would call for a demonstration like a one day strike.

Call the Rs first and say watch this shit. Call for the strike and shut the country down for a day.

Then say do I have your attention? Good now here's the healthcare bill you're going to pass. It's not insurance reform, it's medicare for all.

Hey, it's my fantasy.

-Hoot

[madokie]

14. I like it

I think the President has had his bring it on moment. Yes

[MoonRiver]

13. Obama is brilliantly turning the political tide.

If our chicken shit Dems in Congress will just follow his lead, I believe we will see very different results than currently predicted in 2010 election. k&r

[madokie]

16. I don't think he'd be above shaming them into doing their jobs either

all this time we've been seeing what the pukies are doing we were also seeing our own smelly party. President Obama is going to get the job done that we elected him to do, as he said he would do. I'm confident of that now.

I don't think this aggressive stance he's taking is by chance, its well thought out strategy

[MoonRiver]

17. I agree. I believe he now absolutely knows what has to be done.

He'll do it.

[MineralMan]

15. Give them bastids enough rope and they'll eventually tie a noose

in it and hang themselves. I think they have plenty of rope now.

[Javaman]

18. You forget one thing...

repukes are shameless.

[madokie]

21. and getting worse with each new day

how the hell any of these guys can hold their heads up is beyond me

[Ardent15]

19. That's what I've been thinking.

He's playing a dangerous gamble, but he knows what he's doing.

[gleaner]

20. I don't think so ..

He's doing what he always does. He's making a good speech and trying to make people believe that negative is positive. It's easy to make a good speech bur he hasn't followed up and actually done any of the things he says he's going to do at all. Just the opposite. This speech introduced a Republican generated spending freeze that will only damage the economy more. You need to introduce government spending and jobs to close a deficit, not withhold revenue. That's already happening as people cannot find employment, cannot get credit, are losing their homes and have no money for necessities much less discretionary spending. Also he lies. Wait for it to hit home.

[madokie]

22. So according to you the President hasn't done a thing

good luck with that kind of thinking, I won't buy into any of it.

[gleaner]

23. You don't have to ....

It's my thinking and not yours. That's all. What you think matters to you, what I think matters to me and that is all there is to it.

Still by disagreeing we perform a valuable balancing function in the space time continuum. We are the Alpha to the other's Omega. The equal and opposite reaction to each others action. The Yin to the other's Yang and so on. What would a scale be without balance? It would not hang correctly, nor would it function correctly. It would be all lopsided as if someone were resting a hand on one side and trying to maintain that it actually was weighing even. We each get to pick who that hand belongs to in our own thoughts. :evilgrin: You probably already know who I think it is, but it doesn't matter because I am now leaving the building to go to more harmonious threads.

[Kalun D]

24. Minor stuff

is all. Obama hasn't done anything major for the people, but for the corps, he's done major things for the corps.

[johnaries]

25. you didn't see him at the Republican retreat, did you?

That's what madokie is talking about, and I fully agree. He exposed them for what they are to their faces.

As far as the spending freeze, he's proposing that for next year when the economy is better. The Repukes asked him to do it this year in the Q&A, and he told them that it was because of the economy that he wanted to wait.

[lib_wit_it]

26. Also. not until next year because, as he said in the SOTU--"That's how budgets work."

[greenbird]

28. A Republican generated spending freeze?

Are you privy to the details of the proposed spending freeze? How do you know it will damage the economy? Do you have details?

[Kablooie]

27. I thought he was doing exactly this last year. Turned out the GOP played HIM like a fiddle.

If he doesn't change tactics in a major way, he's going to lose everything again.

But he's starting exactly the same way he did last year, a meeting with the GOP.

[TheWatcher]

29. So It's "The New Chess?"

Wow.

Just WOW.

[lwcon]

30. And when we kill people in Afghanistan

It's really a brilliant chess move that will get them and more people unkilled later.

And when people lose their homes, it's a brilliant move that will later get them into big mansions with ponies in the yard.

And...