People always have trouble remembering that... frequently coming up with the alternative... perhaps because the alternative has a slightly better ring to it.

When I've had a cold in the past, I've been told that, if I take OTC medications for symptom relief, it will take about 7 days for me to get over the cold. Otherwise, it will take a week.

Republicans are hoping they can continue to buffalo the Democrats into doing their nasty work for them. What better way to screw the country than on the other party's dime? Republicans are a viral infection. We certainly didn't think we would get over them in just one election. It may take one or two more.

Apparently, we can work with them or not work with them, and they're going to continue to be a nuisance, regardless. I say we continue to work with Snow, Collins, and Specter, and tell the rest of them to fuck off.

Sadly, just like with a cold virus, we may never truly be rid of them... and it's not because they keep evolving.

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Too much time is spent bickering over a word that has little or no meaning and lots of room for interpretation. Stop wasting everybody's time. The Dems are trying to include the Repubs. The Repubs can't get over the idea that they no longer run the show. They are outnumbered! The American people voted them OUT. They are the new ass kissers. Partisanship has nothing to do with losing a round here and there. It's about being wrong. It's that simple. The government runs for the benefit of the people, not the politicians. Getting along is just fine, but not essential to our survival. It's about doing the right thing. Thanks, ANNA

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Life is so short. And Obama has so much to do and so little time to do it. Plus he has two adorable little girls and an intelligent and beautiful wife...

"two hours and 37 minutes at the Capitol entirely with Republicans."

That's lost time he can never replace.

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I think the Republican response to Obama shows that reaching across the aisle to them only results in pulling back a bloody stump .
We lost almost 600,000 jobs last month and the A*holes want to talk about NOT hurrying and getting it right . What they mean is doing it their way with tax cuts ,one of the least stimultive items , and cutting Corporate taxes even though over 80% of Corporations paid NO tax .
I heard one Republican idea that sounded good that was the idea of NOT taxing Unemployment Benefits . However on closer inspection they would only exempt the FIRST 2400 of Unemployment Benefits . They managed to kill a Democratic proposal to help the unemployed pay for health Insurance . Anyone who has been unemployed knows how much Cobra Costs ( a plug for Universal Health Care here ) .
I hope Obama gets on the Air Tonight and really rips them a NEW one . Call them what the are Idealogical Extremests and Obstructionists . We have followed their Economic policies since Reagan and the results are the Crisis we have NOW .Yet their solution is more of the same .
What businesses need now is Customers and still thanks to them the most stimulative parts of the Bill were stripped out . Their disdain for the poor causes them to reject any aid to them . Yet it is THEY ( the poor) who are MOST likely to spend the pittance we give them .
We had an election a while ago and the public repudiated their Economic ideas and wanted a new direction . Republicans however would rather Filibuster than Cooperate . Their own ideas are nothing more than the same recycled crap we REJECTED .
So please let's get on with the peoples business and tell them to get out of the way

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Democrats need to understand the simple fact that the Republics ARE NOT GOING TO WORK WITH THEM.

Period.

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...passed, at that Republican luncheon???! I sure hope that he spent the appropriate time afterward, in a decontamination chamber. Not only for himself, but for the sake of his beautiful family: Michelle, Sasha and Malia don't need to be exposed to that kind of toxicity, even second hand.

Not to mention President Obama's staff. I suggest that, if the President continues his fruitless effort at 'bipartisanship'; that the appropriate full Decon measures are put in place!

That said, I salute President Obama's bravery. Eating lunch with these pigs? No amount of 'bipartisanship' is worth that. Mr. President--as the first President that America has had in eight--no, nine now--years, I beg of you not to take these risks to your well-being! Much less, sharing a lunchroom with them!

Here's MY idea for 'bipartisanship': assign every Senate and House Democrat, a number. Then put forth an initiative. If it gets defeated you'll immediately know who in OUR PARTY (supposedly) put pen to paper against the measures that WE THE PEOPLE elected YOU, Mr. President, to perform on our behalf.

Then they---the DemoPublicans---can carry their 'traitor numbers' as their permanent ID, until we can get rid of them. They will know who they are, and WE will have an easy reference point.

Respectfully Yours,

Your Voter,

jvaljon1

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ONLY THE REPUBLICANS IN THE SERIOUSLY RED KOOL AID DRINKING STATES KEPT THEIR SEATS. WE GOT THE MOST CRAZY RIGHTWING NUTJOB REPUBLICANS STILL IN OFFICE

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..."fiscally responsible" (a hoot, when you consider their last 8 years in power); the Republicans are piously mouthing their mantra:
"Cuts are needed to the stimulus package".

Needed by whom?

Why, by them of course. Republicans--ever eager to crap on someone else's parade--wish more than anything that the President's Stimulus Plan fails. To that end, they've called in their valued assistants, the DINO's (Democrats In Name Only)--aka DemoPublicans--to make sure this package can't possibly work.

CUTTING THE STIMULUS PLAN, GUARANTEES ITS FAILURE. President Obama knows this, but he's still trying to be 'bi-partisan'. What he desperately NEEDS TO DO--and right away, to maintain the confidence of all his voters--is to go on the air and label these people, as 'obstructionists' and 'obfuscators', and downright 'saboteurs' of any Stimulus Package that has a chance of putting Americans back to work.

To show us that he as well as we, see these Demo-Publicans as what they are: Republicans in Democrat clothing. The enemy is conquered--why still try to appease them, as they try even now to keep this country in the economic ruins that they themselves created?

People who are REALLY interested in 'bi-partisanship', wouldn't be the world-class liars that Republicans, are. Wouldn't be constantly muddying the waters with their lies, and swearing that they are what they in fact, are not--Democrats, and loyal Americans.

A REAL 'bi-partisan' effort, would be for the Republicans to say: "well--we have had the reins of power for eight years, and now, SOMEHOW, (LOL!) this country's broke and jobless. Let's at least TRY to co-operate with the Dems now, so that we'll be just a little bit believable when we point to the stimulus bill's failure. Let's make it LOOK like we want it to work--because if we keep cutting the package, it will absolutely fail, and then the veriest baby will know that we're full of shit about anything that remotely resembles, 'bi-partisanship'. "

That is the real reason--not 'fiscal responsibility' as these professional hypocrites claim--that they are demanding ever bigger and deeper cuts in the Stimulus Package.
To cut it, is to FAIL IT.

Now--the thing to do is to let the DemoPublicans--my name for so-called 'Blue Dog' Democrats--let them know that their career days are numbered if they go along with Corporate America (aka Republicans) on this one.

They know that the Package is targeted toward creating and keeping Middle Class Jobs; not 'pork projects'. To Republicans, middle class jobs ARE 'pork'--or so they say among themselves.

We voted the Republicans out of office in 2006 and 2008. We did not know, all across the country, how these thugs and liars have disguised some of themselves as Democrats, while being the best friends that Republicans ever had.

We started to get the idea, when Nancy Pelosi; well noting the high crimes and misdemeanors pointing to Bush, said "Impeachment is off the table". She's a DemoPublican, and so is Reid, and Leahy, and all the others who half-heartedly say "there's nothing that Americans can do" to bring accountability to traitors of their country like Bush & Co.

We need to get rid of these people--impeach them if necessary, but get rid of ALL DemoPublicans, FAST. They're what's holding America back from healing itself, both economically and philosophically, and separating itself forever from these many decades of misrule, that culminated in the past disastrous eight-year nightmare.

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