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We were told "shut up you

Resistance — Sun, 13 May 2012 06:56:39 +0000

In reply to I think it might have changed

We were told "shut up you damn hippies" 'the moderates no what they're doing."

I think it might have changed

Ramona — Sat, 12 May 2012 19:13:30 +0000

In reply to All these complaints about

I think it might have changed everything. I don't know how much the economy would be changed, but I'm pretty sure we wouldn't be seeing Tea Party members sitting in the halls of Congress, working hard to make our lives miserable.

All these complaints about

SleepinJeezus — Sat, 12 May 2012 18:35:59 +0000

In reply to The Unfinished Business of the Obama Administration: Poverty & Unemployment

All these complaints about how unfortunate Obama is for having such a conservative populace. But it causes me to wonder how different things would be today if Obama and the Dems had adopted a strongly populist campaign coming out of the 2008 elections rather than ceding this territory to Armey and Rove and the Tea Party poseurs.

Obama won't even be able to

Dan Kervick — Sat, 12 May 2012 02:23:41 +0000

In reply to The Unfinished Business of the Obama Administration: Poverty & Unemployment

Obama won't even be able to so much as hire a new floor waxer for the White House basketball court if he doesn't get a whole new Congress.

Right now its looking pretty hopeless. The United States under Obama is even more conservative than it was under Reagan.

So long as he has the

Ivan Ivanovich Renko — Fri, 11 May 2012 15:19:47 +0000

In reply to Another excellent post, but I

So long as he has the Republican obstruction machine and the Blue Dog pack to deal with, he's not going to be able to do a lot more.

Moar bettr Dems in Congress, <i>pazhaloosta.</i>

Another excellent post, but I

Donal — Fri, 11 May 2012 13:57:00 +0000

In reply to The Unfinished Business of the Obama Administration: Poverty & Unemployment

Another excellent post, but I think that the only way Obama can proceed with such an agenda is if a significant body of people forcefully demonstrate for it. We saw a whiff of that last year with the Occupy movement, as the newly dispossessed tried to make common cause with those who have been on the fringes their entire lives. I'm not sure how well that took, frankly, and I'm wondering if Occupy will come on strong this year, or be supplanted by 99% Spring, which seems like Occupy-without-any-scary-poor-people.