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Video: Pastor Broden's Benediction

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SixDegrees11/05/2009 1:01:59 pm PST

re: #212 marjoriemoon

Really? Where did he promise that? I never heard it.

That would be ridiculous. No president can ask the citizens to “review” legislation. You can’t even do that with local government. You’d never get anything done. Yea, I know, what’s the diff…

That’s how elections work. You elect the guy or gal who you agree with MOST (very rarely all) and let them do their thing.

Obama is a Dem, his Congress is Dem, he should push that healthcare bill through. Screw the Republicans if they can’t come to terms with it or offer any workable solutions outside of “let’s buy insurance in other states” which is practically the only game they have going. Why is he cowtowing to the Repubs? So they like him? That’s never going to happen anyway.

I like Obama, but he’s looking more like a Carter than a Clinton. I haven’t given up hope yet. He may come around still.

I believe this pledge was part of his promise to improve government transparency. Not so much a review in the sense of awaiting input from readers as simply divulging the details of what was being done.

As for going things alone: very, very bad idea, and not without reason being referred to as “the nuclear option.” Payback’s a bitch, and refusing to listen to the minority would cost the Democrats dearly - if you think the rhetoric is harsh and over the top now, wait until the Dems make it clear there is absolutely nothing to lose by going down that road. And wait, too, until the GOP regroups and once again holds the reins of power - political memories are long, and vindictiveness common.

0bama, at least, seems smarter than this, and has been actively courting Republican input and support for the simple reason that he can defuse such future remonstrances. It’s a wise move, but it’s being made nearly impossible both by GOP wagon circling and by Democratic indifference to proposals emanating from the other side of the aisle.