Is Obama Splitting The Democratic Vote?

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The Left has been really fun to watch this week. Obama’s jobs bill is in trouble already, Fast&Furious looks to overtake the scandal page, and the attacks on the rich are offending the affluent liberals.

here are some of the headlines:

cnn.com/2011/10/03/opinion/s … ?hpt=op_t1[quote]
The results of the 2010 midterms, however, when combined with recent special election results, indicate that, with Obama at the top of the ticket, the prospects for many other Democratic elected officials are rather dismal. Of course, a lot of these politicians have no one to blame but themselves. I suspect, nonetheless, that they are feeling more than a twinge of buyer’s remorse.[/quote]

The jobs bills support looks weak among Dems:[quote]
The Obama campaign sent out an email today asking supporters to urge Congress to at least vote on the president’s jobs bill almost immediately after Democratic majority leader Harry Reid blocked a vote on the bill in the Senate.

On the Senate floor today, Republican leader Mitch McConnell asked for unanimous consent to proceed on voting on the bill. Reid, who has struggled to find enough votes for the bill in the Democratic caucus, objected to the motion and killed the opportunity for a vote.

About ten minutes later, Jim Messina, Obama’s 2012 campaign manager, emailed this message to supporters:[/quote]
weeklystandard.com/blogs/oba … 95022.html

F&F is not going away, even when the White House tries to yell it down:[quote]
The Fast and Furious scandal, in which the Justice Department knowingly gave Mexican criminal gangs thousands of guns, just keeps escalating. The latest development centers around whether or not Attorney General Eric Holder lied to Congress about having knowledge of the controversial gun trafficking operation. Recently released documents say Holder was briefed about the operation long before he told the Judiciary Committee he was first aware of what was going on. (Holder now claims he misunderstood the question was being asked.)

What’s more, CBS News investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson – who’s been covering the scandal from the beginning – says in an interview on the Laura Ingraham Show today that the White House and Justice Department have taken to screaming at her for reporting on the story. You can listen to the full interview below, but here are the key excerpts from Attkisson:[/quote]
weeklystandard.com/blogs/cbs … 95011.html

[quote]
Ingraham: So they were literally screaming at you?
Attkisson: Yes. Well the DOJ woman was just yelling at me. The guy from the White House on Friday night literally screamed at me and cussed at me. [Laura: Who was the person? Who was the person at Justice screaming?] Eric Schultz. Oh, the person screaming was [DOJ spokeswoman] Tracy Schmaler, she was yelling not screaming. And the person who screamed at me was Eric Schultz at the White House."[/quote]

And the whole tax the super rich because they can afford it thing is anything but universally popular:
Rosanne Barre: Behead the rich who won’t pay:

But over on BET:
BET founder Robert Johnson had this to say:

I LOVE how Johnson ended his interview:[quote]
I went in business to create jobs and opportunity, create opportunity, create value for myself and my investors. And that’s what the president should be praising, not demagoguing us simply because Warren Buffet says he pays more than his secretary. He should pay the secretary more and she will pay more."[/quote]

and this just in:

Obama saying Reagan would support his raising taxes on the wealthy. It would be funny except at the end, he kinda really does try to brainwash them to say what he wants them to say to Republicans. Sad…dumbing down from the top.

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dogpile![quote]
More and more Democrats are publicly challenging Obama on a range of issues.

Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) ripped the administration on Tuesday for considering keeping U.S. troops in Iraq beyond this year. In a floor speech on Tuesday, Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.) questioned Obama’s strategy in Afghanistan.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), meanwhile, are at odds with Obama on the trade deals he just sent to Congress. Reid has committed to moving them, though he has made clear he is not a fan. Pelosi has put the White House on notice she will not be twisting arms to pass the agreements.

Congressional Democrats are not exactly embracing Obama’s jobs plan. Pelosi has called for an up-or-down vote on it in the House, but Reid is in no rush to schedule a vote. Reid, who is worried about keeping his majority, is well-aware that voting on Obama’s proposal puts some of his politically vulnerable members in a tough spot. [/quote]
thehill.com/opinion/editorials/1 … inus-obama

But someone still likes him!

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Come on after the Perry rock attack from Wash Post? F&F is barely being talked about in the MSM(CBS? FOX, libs will circle the wagon for Obama). The Solyndra snafu? As soon as we have a republican frontrunner, all attacks will refocus on them.

Obama’s only chances requires poisoning the well while driving his GoV to extremes.

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[quote=“Okami”]Come on after the Perry rock attack from Wash Post? F&F is barely being talked about in the MSM(CBS? FOX, libs will circle the wagon for Obama). The Solyndra snafu?
As soon as we have a republican frontrunner, all attacks will refocus on them.

Obama’s only chances requires poisoning the well while driving his GoV to extremes.[/quote]

Absolutely…

I don’t think F&F is going away though.

More on Buffet:[quote]
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) – Billionaire Warren Buffett can pay more taxes if he wants to, but some “ordinary millionaires” say they’re already paying plenty.

Buffett has been outspoken in saying the super-rich should pay more. Others in that club – like Bill Gates – agree. And President Obama has been pushing the “the Buffett Rule”, a guiding principle that aims to ensure the rich pay as much a share of their income as the middle class.

Even so, some millionaires say Buffett doesn’t speak for them. [/quote]

[quote]
One millionaire CNNMoney reader said that for the past five years, his tax rate (including state income taxes) has ranged from 40% to 55% – which he thinks is more than enough money to be forking over to Uncle Sam.

“We are not a country that was founded on entitlements, but for some reason or another people now believe that they are entitled to freebies,” he said. “Of course being paid not to work is a lot easier than actually working.”

The idea of a millionaire tax also strikes a nerve among millionaire small business owners. Their taxes wouldn’t necessarily increase under a Buffett Rule, because it would likely target those who get most of their income from investments, on which they pay just the 15% capital gains rate.

Still,
some business owners don’t want to hear they should be paying more
.[/quote]
Because they’re next? :ponder:

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[quote]MICHAEL MOORE, ON CNN: Well, “The Washington post” three weeks ago had this
investigation and they said that President Obama has now raised more money from Wall Street and the banks for this election cycle than all – than all eight Republicans combined
. I don’t want to say that, because if that’s the truth, that Wall Street already has their man and his name is Barack Obama, then we’ve got a much bigger problem.

But I think President Obama, if he were here in the room, the question I would ask him is
why are they your number one contributors? Why are you taking this money
?

MORGAN: It’s fascinating to find out why they’re doing it. I’ll ask him.

MOORE:
What are they expecting in return in the second term from you? Right now, here’s what we do know. Goldman Sachs was your number one contributor the 2008 election. And we have not seen anyone from Goldman Sachs go to jail. We have not seen the regulations, Glass/Steagall, put back on to Wall Street now three years after the crash.

Why hasn’t that happened? President Obama, we the people need you to take them by the throat and say, damn it, this is the United States of America; you don’t steal from the working people of this country. And this is the way it’s going to be.[/quote]

realclearpolitics.com/video/ … obama.html

How is this going to play with the OWS yokels?

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I’d hope it’d get them right pissed off.

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[quote=“Jaboney”]I’d hope it’d get them right pissed off.[/quote]Please, You have talked to an American liberal I’m sure. They don’t think about switching their vote, because then the hated repubithugs will get in and kill ponies and kittens while spraying poison everywhere. Now granted Obama is hitting Carter levels of disgust with the electorate, but at best you are just looking at a bunch of libs staying home rather than voting like what happened to Congressional republicans in 2006 and McCain in 2008 with conservative voters.

Dinner at Alleycats says they trot out the whole republican VP is an evil idiot thing again, any takers?

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Oh sir, my but you are wrong on that one!

[quote]
President Obama earlier this month quietly signed into law a spending bill that restores the American horse-slaughter industry, just a few months after a government investigation said the ban on slaughtering for human consumption was backfiring.

The agriculture spending bill Mr. Obama signed the week before Thanksgiving did not include a ban on the inspection of horse meat — a backdoor prohibition that had, since 2006, effectively halted the U.S. horse-slaughter industry.

In June the Government Accountability Office, Congress’s official investigative branch, released a report saying the ban had shut down U.S. slaughter, but that only depressed prices for horses here while causing many of the animals to be shipped to “foreign slaughtering facilities where U.S. humane slaughtering protections do not apply.”

In unusually blunt language, GAO suggested Congress and Mr. Obama reconsider the ban.

The options facing Congress were to further ban export of horses for slaughter or to lift the domestic slaughter ban. Congress chose the latter.[/quote]