where have all the liberals gone?

[DrLeftover]

Mr. Obama's health plan has been pushed back to beyond the next election because they haven't figured out how to make it work and both employers and insurers (many of whom lobbied for it) are dropping like flies....

US Troops are in the suburbs of yet another war zone (first Uganda, now Syria).....

The IRS scandal just keeps getting better and better.....

Some geek named Snowden has caused an international dust up....

The Internet and Telephone snooping thing hasn't gone away....

In spite of Mr. Obama's promise, student loan rates just went through the roof....

And there's nobody on Off Topix defending the current administration with almost poetic phrases about how it is all good and there's nothing but roses and sunshine in Washington due to the openness and honesty flowing from the Executive Office Building.

 

[Evil Eye]

You scared them off, probably.

 

[DrLeftover]

Sorry about that.

But I didn't make up anything in the list.

 

[Evil Eye]

No, it's a rather sad state of affairs.
Can't even trust a politician to do what you elected him to do, shame. Honestly, I'm amazed your "throw the bums out" thing hasn't caught on yet.

 

[Fatal Dawn]

I assume nobody is saying anything because they either are not concerned about said issues or can't be bothered to start blowing smoke by defending the actions of a governing body simply because of they are of the same political party.

Sometimes I'm an example of the former. Of the issues listed the only one that really concerns me is the student loans... and I don't take student loans. I have no business trying to defend political positions as I'm not a politician but a student who has more immediate concerns.

Other times I am an example of the latter. I'm a Fatalist who can't be bothered to raise hell every time someone says something I disagree with. In the end every John Doe or Jane Doe can have an opinion or belief. Just because John or Jane is entitled to an opinion doesn't mean it's correct (even if say, John is under the strong opinion that the Obama administration is pure evil and Jane strongly believes that aliens are visiting Earth). Indeed I recognize the potential wrongness in my opinions so (occasionally) I try to avoid giving them even if the opportunity presents itself (PS: I wouldn't recommend myself as anyone's advocate).

 

[JetWing34]

Just a bunch of conservative politicians rolling their eyes or giving our Commander in Chief the "one finger and a fist".

 

[DrLeftover]

Just a bunch of conservative politicians rolling their eyes or giving our Commander in Chief the "one finger and a fist".

oh?

How so?

 

[JetWing34]

It's like nobody cares about America anymore. It looks like Obama is the worst Democrat to ever become President, and the House turned Obama into a Republican.

 

[DrLeftover]

Exaggeration is scarcely debate.

Is Obama worse than James Buchanan (who was also a Democrat)? Hardly.

As for your statement about the House... I'm not even going to try to fathom that one.

 

[DrLeftover]

Did I mention the ongoing unemployment problem?

No, I don't think I did.

Since January 2009, when Barack Obama was inaugurated as president, the United States has seen 54 straight months with the unemployment rate at 7.5 percent or higher, which is the longest stretch of unemployment at or above that rate since 1948, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics started calculating the national unemployment rate.

Today, BLS reported that the seasonally adjusted national unemployment rate for June was 7.6 percent, the same it was in May.

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/54-months-record-stretch-75-unemployment-continues

 

[DrLeftover]

Oh, and "fast and furious" is back.

From a non-disgusting and non-hater media outlet:

July 5, 2013, 3:45 p.m.

WASHINGTON—A high-powered rifle lost in the ATF’s Fast and Furious controversy was used to kill a Mexican police chief in the state of Jalisco earlier this year, according to internal Department of Justice records, suggesting that weapons from the failed gun-tracking operation have now made it into the hands of violent drug cartels deep inside Mexico.

Luis Lucio Rosales Astorga, the police chief in the city of Hostotipaquillo, was shot to death Jan. 29 when gunmen intercepted his patrol car and opened fire. Also killed was one of his bodyguards. His wife and a second bodyguard were wounded.

Local authorities said eight suspects in their 20s and 30s were arrested after police seized them nearby with a cache of weapons — rifles, grenades, handguns, helmets, bulletproof vests, uniforms and special communications equipment. The area is a hot zone for rival drug gangs, with members of three cartels fighting over turf in the region.

A semi-automatic WASR rifle, the firearm that killed the chief, was traced back to the Lone Wolf Trading Company, a gun store in Glendale, Ariz. The notation on the Department of Justice trace records said the WASR was used in a “HOMICIDE – WILLFUL – KILL –PUB OFF –GUN” –ATF code for “Homicide, Willful Killing of a Public Official, Gun.”

http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-76571135/


But the only thing Mr. Obama's true believers can do is swoop in, call names, and vanish.

Fascinating, and rather sad, that.

 

[DrLeftover]

Again. I say.

Where have all the liberals gone?

 

[DrLeftover]

.... we found one of them

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/07/busted-left-wing-plant-at-houston-pro-zimmerman-rally-is-far-left-activist/?ModPagespeed=noscript

 

[Evil Eye]

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/07/23/Racist-and-Proud-Sign-Anti-Zimmerman-Smear-Proven-False-Video-Proof
Sarcasm is not the best way to get a point across.

 

[DrLeftover]

Not when various TV networks show the sign without identifying who was holding it and why.

But, evidently, that is exactly what you are dealing with when you are walking on the Left side of the street.

 

[wirelessguru1]

I don't know about the liberals and/or conservatives (since I am an independent thinker) but the way that I see it, the present day civilization is just about to fall as the debt-based slavery system proceeds to fail....

 

[JetWing34]

By 2015, the entire United States government will be all GOP, House and Senate.

 

[DrLeftover]

By 2015, the entire United States government will be all GOP, House and Senate.

That's the funniest thing I have ever seen written as a serious statement in a debate thread in years.

The US National Legislature has never been all one party, and since the World War Two, for the majority of terms, it has been more or less balanced.

http://history.house.gov/Institution/Party-Divisions/Party-Divisions/

 

[wirelessguru1]

By 2015, the entire United States government will be all GOP, House and Senate.

Is that in your wet dreams? LOL!

 

[DrLeftover]

And then they have to face the mirror after their leaders do this:

The obituary of Rep. Justin Amash's amendment to claw back the sweeping powers of the National Security Agency has largely been written as a victory for the White House and NSA chief Keith Alexander, who lobbied the Hill aggressively in the days and hours ahead of Wednesday's shockingly close vote. But Hill sources say most of the credit for the amendment's defeat goes to someone else: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. It's an odd turn, considering that Pelosi has been, on many occasions, a vocal surveillance critic.

But ahead of the razor-thin 205-217 vote, which would have severely limited the NSA's ability to collect data on Americans' telephone records if passed, Pelosi privately and aggressively lobbied wayward Democrats to torpedo the amendment, a Democratic committee aid with knowledge of the deliberations tells The Cable.

"Pelosi had meetings and made a plea to vote against the amendment and that had a much bigger effect on swing Democratic votes against the amendment than anything Alexander had to say," said the source, keeping in mind concerted White House efforts to influence Congress by Alexander and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. "Had Pelosi not been as forceful as she had been, it's unlikely there would've been more Democrats for the amendment."

With 111 liberal-to-moderate Democrats voting for the amendment alongside 94 Republicans, the vote in no way fell along predictable ideological fault lines. And for a particular breed of Democrat, Pelosi's overtures proved decisive, multiple sources said.

http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/07/25/how_nancy_pelosi_saved_the_nsa_surveillance_program