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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 10:42 AM Original message |
The President needs more progressives in his Administration? |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 10:45 AM Response to Original message |
1. His appointees are a reflection of his thinking. |
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Jackpine Radical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 10:47 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Precisely. Birds of a feather... |
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jgraz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 03:03 PM Response to Reply #3 |
32. screw the middle class together? |
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zipplewrath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 10:50 AM Response to Reply #1 |
5. Yup |
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izquierdista (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 11:05 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. It's amazing! |
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zipplewrath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 11:55 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. We get different explanations |
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izquierdista (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 02:29 PM Response to Reply #8 |
30. You've come to the fight |
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zipplewrath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 02:40 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. Ha! |
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tango-tee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-15-10 05:04 AM Response to Reply #8 |
44. Clear, concise, to the point. |
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Spheric (512 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-15-10 10:17 AM Response to Reply #8 |
49. +1 /nt |
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Edweird (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 11:58 AM Response to Reply #5 |
10. That about sums it up. |
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ThomCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 01:10 PM Response to Reply #5 |
13. Yes, I think that has been pretty clear for almost the beginning. |
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zipplewrath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 01:28 PM Response to Reply #13 |
18. It is a bit of congnative dissonance |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 01:14 PM Response to Reply #5 |
14. or: like most presidents, he's enacting the agenda of his financial backers. |
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ThomCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 01:22 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. Do you think ANY president enacts policies that don't have his own |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 01:29 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. so long as the visions of the president don't step on the toes of his financial backers. |
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ThomCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 01:51 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. I don't think there is ANY fear at all that Obama's views |
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LWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 12:06 PM Response to Reply #1 |
11. Yes. If he wanted to hear progressive voices, he'd have appointed them. nt |
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Phoebe Loosinhouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-15-10 08:45 AM Response to Reply #11 |
46. There are none so deaf as those who choose not to hear. |
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LWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-15-10 10:05 AM Response to Reply #46 |
48. The message couldn't be any more blatant. |
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Individualist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 12:09 PM Response to Reply #1 |
12. Absolutely. |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 01:26 PM Response to Reply #1 |
17. Like that conservative Linda Solis! |
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Mithreal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 02:22 PM Response to Reply #17 |
26. Good counterpoint. And we could say that about a few others as well. |
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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 01:55 PM Response to Reply #1 |
22. Exactly. |
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OHdem10 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 10:45 AM Response to Original message |
2. It appears the Consrvative Wing of the Party rules the roost. |
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Mithreal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 02:28 PM Response to Reply #2 |
29. The Regressives are jealous of the New Dems playing their game better. |
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Hydra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-15-10 12:50 AM Response to Reply #29 |
37. Natural progression |
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Mithreal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-15-10 12:47 PM Response to Reply #37 |
50. +1 |
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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 10:49 AM Response to Original message |
4. More than how many? I don't recall any at all! nt |
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villager (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 10:57 AM Response to Original message |
6. The unreccers betray their non-progressive hands already! |
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branders seine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 11:56 AM Response to Original message |
9. his appointees are as conservative as he is. |
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ThomCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 01:19 PM Response to Reply #9 |
15. It was scary how quickly we started seeing people |
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zipplewrath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 01:35 PM Response to Reply #15 |
20. I was a tad guilty |
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branders seine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 05:06 PM Response to Reply #20 |
34. "centrist" is generous. |
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zipplewrath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-15-10 07:51 AM Response to Reply #34 |
45. That's a double observation though |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-15-10 01:54 AM Response to Reply #20 |
39. I bet a lot of people, myself included, went through a similar process. n/t |
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laughingliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-15-10 02:13 AM Response to Reply #20 |
40. That was pretty much the road I traveled. nt |
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tango-tee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-15-10 05:01 AM Response to Reply #15 |
43. The Warren invocation fiasco |
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ThomCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-15-10 09:32 AM Response to Reply #43 |
47. :) |
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jgraz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 01:57 PM Response to Original message |
23. You mean more than the zero he currently has? Probably. |
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cordelia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 02:01 PM Response to Original message |
24. More than none |
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saracat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 02:04 PM Response to Original message |
25. He needs to find some liberal thinkers for sure and he needs to throw the bipartisanship out the |
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Mithreal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 02:24 PM Response to Original message |
27. Wonder who he will pick for the Office of Undermining. |
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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 02:26 PM Response to Original message |
28. More important than the Liberal vs Conservative ... |
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glitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 10:24 PM Response to Reply #28 |
35. Like Milton Friedman, they no doubt believe they were only wrong because they weren't allowed full |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 03:05 PM Response to Original message |
33. YES! |
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Jamastiene (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-15-10 12:12 AM Response to Original message |
36. K&R |
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Bryn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-15-10 01:49 AM Response to Original message |
38. I completely agree with you. |
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laughingliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-15-10 02:15 AM Response to Original message |
41. K & R nt |
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tango-tee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-15-10 04:57 AM Response to Original message |
42. K&R! |
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52. shit in one hand and wish in another. |
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