Punked

Republicans "have successfully used the fragile economic security of our middle class and the hardship of millions of jobless Americans as bargaining chips to secure tax breaks for the very wealthiest among us," said Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa.

President Obama's caving in to the Republicans on what should have been one of his strongest negotiating points - their insistence on tax breaks for their millionaire friends before they would extend unemployment benefits - was totally asinine and shows what kind of pussy he really is.

The Republicans were the ones that would have been feeling the heat on this issue and he lets them off the hook. Mitch McConnell should be smiling right now like the cat that ate the canary. National polls consistently show a majority of americans wants to keep those tax breaks exclusively for the middle class. The GOP only has empathy for the wealthy ruling class and their pals on Wall Street. Estimates are that this deal will add 700 billion dollars to the national debt. Remember, Obama campaigned on a promise to repeal the Bush-era tax cuts that benefit the wealthiest 2 percent of U.S. households.

I hope that the democratic leadership tells the president to pound sand on this one. Sherrod Brown and Schumer seem willing to. Obama once again wants to be the accommodating friend to all. He could use a little more streetfighting instincts. Rahm, you see what kind of sissy your homeboy really is? Pitiful.

Compromise is one thing - completely alienating the people who elected you to curry favor with a GOP who has obstructed you at every turn and have promised to totally obstruct your agenda is another.

I hope that the Democrats can field a stronger candidate in the next election. I will have a hard time voting for this spineless president.

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Now the wacky wiki people have divulged a list of our most sensitive strategic sites around the world, the weak points in our armor. A road map for the shitheads to probe our defenses. You still think they are so swell, John Perry Barlow?

I am afraid that all of the Wiki enablers and sympathizers who argue for government transparency are now going to see the exact opposite occur. Intelligence will be more compartmentalized and "need to know." Sensitive diplomatic channels will hopefully now fully protected from these cyberhackers and anarchists. And governments will be justified in their caution and reluctance to share information. So instead of a more informed electorate, the probability is we will be kept further in the dark.

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Wickiarmy attacks.

Mitch McConnell deconstructed © Robert Sommers