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Thread ID: 102033	2009-08-05 05:27:00	Same-O, Same-O	SurferJoe46 (51)	PC World Chat

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798273	2009-08-05 05:27:00	The chickens are coming home to roost and they look tired . What was a sparkling and glittering new regime has rusted and foundered in mud that it said it would steer clear of, even if it meant that there would be some new taxes and fearful payments for the next few generations of citizens . The emperor has scanty clothing left and his nudity is becoming more and more obvious every day . Here's a groundswell of the beginnings of pangs of distress . I guess it's really impossible to legislate morality after all . . . . . . . . . . it was another example -- one of many this day for the real estate quick-sale agent-- of the broken promises of a president who she thought would be different . Obama pledged to change a Washington culture that favored corporations and the connected and instead lift families such as the one sitting next to herself (Cleland) out of their economic funk . Rather, she said, Obama has backed billions of dollars to banks that continue to "act like they're broke" and started the country down a path that Cleland said she thinks will lead to more grief for the middle class . "He's just not as advertised," she said . "Nothing's changed for the common guy . I feel like I've been punked . " . . . . . . . . . and . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [Democrats] have declined to take firm revelatory stands, commending the administration's intentions to limit greenhouse gas emissions and expand health care but objecting generally to actions that would strain small businesses and families . [They] have also accused Republicans of focusing too heavily on federal issues, declaring in a recent debate that "[I]They're not running for Congress . " [They] skipped two health-care town halls hosted by Obama in Virginia in recent weeks, saying it would be inappropriate to mix campaigning with White House policy initiatives . Supporters of the president say his efforts will pay off for [the] Democrats . But Republicans are gambling that many of Virginia's middle-of-the road voters, who have backed Democrats in recent races, will be up for grabs as people grow more skeptical of Democratic leadership . "The mood is becoming just as lousy for the Democrats as it has been for us the last couple of years," said J . Kenneth Klinge, Democrat, a longtime Virginia GOP strategist . "It's evening up the playing field . " According to a Gallup poll last week, about 52 percent of Americans approved of Obama's job as president, the lowest number of his tenure . That number rose to 56 percent in the most recent poll but was down from an average of 61 percent early last month and 69 percent immediately after he took office in January . VIDEO LINK ( . washingtonpost . com/wp-dyn/content/video/2009/08/03/VI2009080300969 . html" target="_blank">www . washingtonpost . com)	SurferJoe46 (51)
798274	2009-08-05 11:45:00	Strangely enough, and probably entirely by coincidence, a Democratic Senator considered the Republicans have lost the plot. He pointed out that his uncle's neighbor got ill only two weeks after eating a piece of chicken from a Republican owned hash foundry. That shows what desperate measures the losers are prepared to entertain. Reconvene the Watergate commission !	R2x1 (4628)
798275	2009-08-08 10:12:00	...quote..But Republicans are gambling that many of Virginia's middle-of-the road voters, who have backed Democrats in recent races, will be up for grabs as people grow more skeptical of Democratic leadership...unquote... Do the Republicans really think the people won't be also skeptical of whoever they put up for the next presidental election?? Having put up with George W. Bush and seen how Sarah Palin went, I wouldn't put money on the GOP for some time.	decibel (11645)
798276	2009-08-08 13:38:00	Probably germane: www.silentmajority09.com	zqwerty (97)
798277	2009-08-09 15:29:00	Do the Republicans really think the people won't be also skeptical of whoever they put up for the next presidental election?? Having put up with George W. Bush and seen how Sarah Palin went, I wouldn't put money on the GOP for some time. As an observer - the US citizens are running around like chickens with their legs cut off. They are in survival-mode and the political fury isn't really what it's all about. Food-shelter-transportation-taxes etc are all much more germane than who's in the catbird's seat or not. Adding fuel of a political nature only exacerbates the general mood of doom and it's slowly rising in creschendo, but the voices-political aren't the fattest lady in the choir yet. There may be time for a swing in attention, but I believe it's the political brickbats being tossed arond in the arenas of the politicians themselves - at themselves - in a vainglorious attempt to reorganize the chairs on the proverbial Titanic. Perhaps the sqabbles are planned - perhaps not - but right now not too many people are worrying about DC - not as much as they are worrying about the Lord High Executioner: Schwartzenegger. Since California is my accidental place dè Abode, I can much more speak on the fever - or lack of it really - for things DC-ish from this vantage point: it's a sloppy third or fourth in attention span right now in things that matter. What the general groundswell here is all about is just making it to tomorrow with some semblance of shelter-food-health and let DC fend for- or entertain itself and the rest of the States with it's shenanigans: There's not enough hours in the day to worry about Obama too. Remember that California is a "Me/Myself & I" state. RHIP. :p	SurferJoe46 (51)
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