Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

“If [Obama’s] saying he’s got the stride going and he’s on a winning streak and that was just the first of many things he thinks he can get through, I would actually say the opposite,” said the top aide to a member of the conservative Blue Dog Coalition. “That ship has sailed. That capital was expended on cap and trade first and health care second.”

Sounds like these blue dogs are now gun shy.

1 posted on 03/31/2010 2:43:01 PM PDT by neverdem
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies ]


To: neverdem

Are there ANY Democrats left in Congress who are Americans FIRST and democrats Second?

Because, if there ARE, They have GOT to STOP this guy!


2 posted on 03/31/2010 2:46:49 PM PDT by left that other site (Your Mi'KMaq Paddy Whacky Bass Playing Biker Buddy)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: neverdem
but there seems to be a sense of trying to get as much done when we can.”

TRANSLATION: We are going to screw the American people as much as we can, while we can.


3 posted on 03/31/2010 2:47:23 PM PDT by SkyPilot
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: neverdem

Oh please, oh please, let it be amnesty. Push it Barry. All the way to the floor. Fry the House AND the Senate.


4 posted on 03/31/2010 2:48:17 PM PDT by throwback
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: neverdem
Party's over.


5 posted on 03/31/2010 2:51:14 PM PDT by GalaxieFiveHundred
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: neverdem

this is a major reason for Barry’s smoke-and-mirrors on oil drilling. Most Americans who don’t read the fine print will like what they hear. That will push his poll numbers up, and they he will go to Congress and try to convince them that the public is turning around on his agenda.


6 posted on 03/31/2010 2:54:01 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: neverdem
"The president’s push to turn health care reform into a catalyst for the rest of his agenda is getting mixed early reactions on Capitol Hill, where Democratic leaders' desire to take advantage of healthy majorities before the November elections must contend with lawmakers’ survival instincts."

Once everyone figures out what's in obama's job killing health & tax takeover bill, obama's socialist agenda just might hit a brick wall! And let's hope November elections send those Democratic big spending socialists who voted for the job killing health & tax takeover bill out the door!

14 posted on 03/31/2010 3:03:35 PM PDT by GloriaJane (Pro-Choice = Pro-Death........ Pro-Life = Pro-LIFE!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
Democratic leaders' desire to take advantage of healthy majorities before the November elections must contend with lawmakers' survival instincts. White House aides told POLITICO earlier this week that an emboldened Barack Obama plans to parlay his win on health care into a crackdown on Wall Street excesses, a rewrite of education and campaign finance laws and possibly a climate change bill -- all before the fall's midterms.
Thanks neverdem. If the Demwits in Congress *had* any survival instincts, they'd have voted no on Obamacare. As it is, they were stuck between alienating the loudmouth fraction of their constituencies (thus they demanded largesse for their districts and states) thus abandoning whatever core or base they had left, and facing the majority of the voters, who will be showing up, regardless of what smears the DNC may concoct -- collect the whole series, although past performance is no indication of future gains.
15 posted on 03/31/2010 3:06:03 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: neverdem

“YOU HAVE TO HAVE REPUBLICANS, TOO”? I think I heard that said about healthcare not long ago.

That’s the message to keep us off balance. Same with the drilling.


21 posted on 03/31/2010 3:25:36 PM PDT by Terry Mross
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: neverdem

Just do an executive order over the summer.


22 posted on 03/31/2010 3:30:10 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: neverdem

Dems voted healthcare.

They’re in deep $h!t this Nov.

Might as well keep pushing the Obama agenda eh? :)


25 posted on 03/31/2010 4:05:39 PM PDT by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: neverdem

” but progress on climate change, immigration and other contentious measures probably wasn’t — no matter what happened with the health care bill”

These are the SAME things they said about the Health Care Bill before it was rammed down the public’s throats and up our a$$es . Mark my words—all of these things will be attempted and passed befpre November.


26 posted on 03/31/2010 4:44:56 PM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: wardaddy; Joe Brower; Cannoneer No. 4; Criminal Number 18F; Dan from Michigan; Eaker; Jeff Head; ...
A Gun Ban By Any Other Name...

Tea Parties and the Republican Party

2010 Arctic sea ice sets record! (latest annual max extent on record)

Healthcare repeal is no lost cause

Some noteworthy articles about politics, foreign or military affairs, IMHO, FReepmail me if you want on or off my list.

30 posted on 03/31/2010 11:17:38 PM PDT by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: neverdem
Never trust blue dogs: all bark no teeth. The won't change until prominent ones among them will be routed in coming elections.

The same can be said about RINO's. Until McPsycho is kicked out of Senate, expect no change.

31 posted on 03/31/2010 11:25:11 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: neverdem

“But aides and members, Republicans and Democrats alike, said that a Wall Street crackdown was coming — but progress on climate change, immigration and other contentious measures probably wasn’t — no matter what happened with the health care bill.”

Progress.

No bias there.


34 posted on 04/01/2010 4:32:49 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (No Representation without Taxation!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: neverdem
The capital was not only expended. It has overreached and gone into the red. Congress is going to rebel at this tyrant who cares nothing about their future, who cares nothing about them, who cares nothing about us.

Unless Obama is trying to incite open rebellion so he can declare martial law before the elections, and cancel them, there is no point in his twisting arms at this point to get further repellent legislation passed.

35 posted on 04/01/2010 9:58:58 AM PDT by firebrand
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson