Obama's Battle With the Liberal Wing of the Democratic Party
There are some signs that Obama is starting to generate serious opposition from his own party
The looming fight over Obama's nomination of Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court should ingratiate him to some critics for the time being, since she has strong support among liberals. But the overall uneasiness on the left is real and will remain a serious long-term problem for the new president.
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Reader Comments
we are in such big trouble
We must stop pointing fingers and blaming one another. This country is a mess and is in a no-win situation. We the american people with voting rights, and an interest in the outcome of this nation must quit blaming and begin working together to make this country what we want it to be. The devisiveness caused by one sector blaming another is what is preventing us americans from digging in and making things right. Instead of welfare, lets give out education credits. Instead of making it necessary to institute a national health care program, lets allow hospitals and doctors to treat what needs treated without fear of malpractice suits. Instead of pushing government involvement in the schools and education, lets let the teachers and parents figure out the way the education system should run. Give control back to the people. One person, one vote. No electoral congress, they simply allow special interest groups to choose who runs, and who gets elected. We need to reduce government involvement, not increase it. Who is going to buy those little gas-efficient 2-person cars the government is going to make GM produce? Not anyone with more than 1 child on a sports team, or more than one child period. Then GM becomes even more money in-efficient, and the cycle becomes larger.
The only way to fix this is for Americans to do what they have always done. PULL TOGETHER, despite differences in color, race, or creed. America is at stake. We must fix this mess and work together or the U.S.A. will be no more.
Nonsense
Step back into reality please. Iraq did not attack us. Neither did Afghanistan. The former leaders of Afghanistan (the Talibam) did not attack us either. So who really sees what the wars of today are about - you or the evil left?
What Obama Slipped Into The Supplemental Appropriations Bill Last Week
First we were promised that no longer would the wars be off budget. So much for that promise.
Text of H.R.2346 as Engrossed Amendment Senate Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2009 Making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes.
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h2346/text?version=eas&nid=t0:eas:700
Within that bill is an amendment, the new Graham-Lieberman secrecy law:
The White House is actively supporting a new bill jointly sponsored by Sens. Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman -- called The Detainee Photographic Records Protection Act of 2009 -- that literally has no purpose other than to allow the government to suppress any "photograph taken between September 11, 2001 and January 22, 2009 relating to the treatment of individuals engaged, captured, or detained after September 11, 2001, by the Armed Forces of the United States in operations outside of the United States." As long as the Defense Secretary certifies -- with no review possible -- that disclosure would "endanger" American citizens or our troops, then the photographs can be suppressed even if FOIA requires disclosure. The certification lasts 3 years and can be renewed indefinitely. The Senate passed the bill as an amendment last week.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/06/01/photos/index.html
So much for CHANGE & transparency.
Obama's a fraud.
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