Something is terribly wrong in Washington!

In a move away from President Obama’s deadline of July 2011 for the start of an American drawdown from Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, all cited 2014 this week as the key date for handing over the defense of Afghanistan to the Afghans themselves. Implicit in their message, delivered at a security and diplomatic conference in Australia, was that the United States would be fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan for at least four more years.

I'm not surprised, are you??

By CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN | 11/11/10 8:09 AM EST Updated: 11/11/10 9:28 AM EST

The White House signaled Wednesday that President Barack Obama is ready to cut a deal on the Bush-era tax cuts – accepting a temporary extension of the cuts for the wealthiest Americans to win renewal of tax breaks for middle-class taxpayers.
Such a deal would run counter to one of Obama’s longest-standing and most often-repeated promises from the 2008 campaign – that he would end the tax cuts for wealthier individuals.

The Obama administration must want to know how that will sit with its liberal base -- that could explain why David Axelrod's interview is on the front page of the Huffington Post this morning and not, say, the Washington Post.
You could look at a compromise from President Obama as pragmatic negotiating -- give a little now in order to get a lot of what you want later. Seen in its very best light, the proposal from Democratic Senators Kent Conrad and Evan Bayh can look like that; we'll give you the tax cuts now and you let us overhaul the entire tax code later.
You could also see the compromise as pure caving -- whatever happened to the idea of calling the GOP's bluff, of giving them a whiteboard and a marker and asking them to start finding the $700 billion they'll need to cover the tax cuts for America's wealthiest citizens?

President Barack Obama will agree to Republican demands that Bush-era tax policies benefiting high- income Americans be extended, his top adviser said in an interview with the Huffington Post.
David Axelrod, the adviser, said that will be the only way to ensure lower tax rates for middle-income Americans also are continued. Unless Congress acts, the tax cuts enacted in 2001 and 2003 expire on Dec. 31.

BULLSHIT!!

I don't know about you President Obama supporters, BUT for me, right now, I feel like vomiting. How much more do we need to cave to?? How much more disappointment can we handle as Obama supporters? The Dems and the president ARE CAVING! They claim they have to because they don't have the votes, I find that disgusting. Are they wording it right? Are they telling Americans the republicans WON'T agree to extending the tax cuts to the middleclass UNLESS the dems cave to their fuckin demands to extend the cuts to the wealthiest Americans? If so then WE ARE NOT ON BOARD!! I think most of us would even agree to let ALL the cuts expire just so the rich fatcats DON'T get to keep their current tax rate! What happened to the deficit reduction talks?? Those hypocrite thugs don't give a damn about the deficit! All this talk about spending cuts, they ONLY want cuts for entitlements that will affect the middleclass and poor. REPUBLICANS HATE AMERICANS, they hate anyone who lives a life dependent on the government for a less then poverty lifestyle! Let the thugs stand up on the Senate floor and tell us they do not care about cuts for SS and Medicare as long as we can borrow 700 billion for their rich friends.

Cornelius Hurley Boston University law professor :

Obama caving on the high income tax cut issue guarantees that he will attract an intra-party opponent from the progressive wing of the Democratic party. A challenge by a credible candidate, say Howard Dean or Russ Feingold, would ensure his defeat (if nominated) in ’12, see, Kennedy v. Carter in 1980.

I AGREE!!!! I'm really starting to believe Barack Obama wants to be a one term president. How else do you explain such obvious disregard for what the American people are asking of him? Mr. President you ARE NOT LISTENING TO US AT ALL! 


I stole this from fivethirtyeight..

The table below compiles a number of statistics related to prospective G.O.P. candidates in 2012. Moving from left to right, we have their current chance of winning the nomination according to the political futures market Intrade; the candidate’s current “power ranking” according to the National Journal’s Hotline, their average standing in five recent polls of prospective Republican primary voters (I don’t use the recent Zogby Interactive poll — we don’t consider Zogby’s online polls to be scientific), and favorability ratings among Republican adults according to the recent A.P.-G.f.K. survey.


as mad as I get with this president and present Congress, just look at these clowns in the running for 2012. They make Obama look like the best president in our nations history, BAR NONE!!