hey kids! it's jolly ol' captain buzzkill!

[rone]

1. There's still 11 weeks left for George Wanker Bush to further fuck the country over.  And he will; if there's one thing that he's shown in these 8 years, it's that he'll go there and do that.
2. Obama is coming in on a chariot drawn by the twin goats of Hope and Change, much like another relatively young Democrat did sixteen years ago (and they're both Leos... you can't trust Leos).  He's gonna disappoint a lot of people.  Yes, he's charming, articulate (ooohhhh), and straightforward.  He's not the Second freaking Coming.  Don't let the abysmal experience of the Bush Mandate trick you into thinking that the New Hotness is All That.  Remember that he voted for the Henry-Paulson-blank-check bailout bill and the FISA bill, and a year and a half ago wanted an extended stay in Iraq.
3. We still have a Democratic-led Congress that is complicit in the failure of the last six years, and especially the last two.  We don't know how they're going to react now that their master is no longer an abusive asshole who made them cringe with a wave of his hand, and is instead an energetic fellow who wants them to play nice and run agility courses.  They might take to the kind new master... or they might act out and start chewing up shoes and pissing on the drapes.

Remember, only YOU can help prevent forest fires.  We got rid of the cancer.  Now we have to rehab.  If your pet Democrat isn't getting the job done, throw them out in two years.

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[huaman.livejournal.com]

Yay for Captain Buzzkill!

*applause*

[omarius.livejournal.com]

I'm Bear Lee Sober and I approve this message.

Not two years

[notr.livejournal.com]

Throw them out in a primary race in a year and a half.

[vspope.livejournal.com]

That is just what I've been telling my friends who've been mainlining huge needles of Hope.

Obama faces what I half-jokingly refer to as a hostile Democratic Congress, which is by no means likely to allow him to push through a hard-left agenda -- if in fact that's what he'd want to do at all, which it isn't. The Blue Dogs and the Liebermans of the world will see to that.

The Republicans will trumpet the filibuster as the greatest thing since the invention of fellatio and stare blankly when they're reminded of how viciously they referred to it four years ago.

The financial industry and the housing industry and the military operations won't magically fix themselves.

Prop 8 alone demonstrates that the nation still has a long way to go.

But Jesus McFucking Christ in a Chicken Basket, we're a hell of a lot closer to good governance than we were 48 hours ago.

[sine.livejournal.com]

i see your point, but a lot of the problem in the last two years has been the republicans' record-setting cockblocking. they filibustered damn near everything. at least that won't be as much of a problem as it was.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Get back to your honeymoonin', pal!

[schwa242.livejournal.com]

There's still 11 weeks left for George Wanker Bush to further fuck the country over. And he will; if there's one thing that he's shown in these 8 years, it's that he'll go there and do that.

This has had me on edge for a while now, and will until January 20th. I think there's nasty enough folks in his administration who will try to give Obama the hardest start possible just so they can point out all his mistakes from day one.

He's gonna disappoint a lot of people. Yes, he's charming, articulate (ooohhhh), and straightforward. He's not the Second freaking Coming. Don't let the abysmal experience of the Bush Mandate trick you into thinking that the New Hotness is All That. Remember that he voted for the Henry-Paulson-blank-check bailout bill and the FISA bill, and a year and a half ago wanted an extended stay in Iraq.

You forgot that his running mate is against net neutrality, helps the RIAA and MPAA have broader influence in the government, and tacked on the a law finding concert promoters culpable if people smoke pot at their shows to the Amber Alert Bill when twice he couldn't get it to pass on its own. Not that anyone cares about copyright law and drug laws that go so far as to punish people who aren't selling or using.

Still, beats the alternative.

[schwa242.livejournal.com]

Still, beats the alternative.

Er, by that I mean Obama-Biden beats McCain and Whatsername, not Biden's voting record on those issues beating the alternative.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Biden's also behind the latest, delightful bankruptcy bill. Funny how all the credit card banks are in Delaware...

[missionista.livejournal.com]

Dude, you're wrong, Leos are awesome! :)

I tend to think

[notr.livejournal.com]

Bush has no incentive to make things hard for Obama. Screwing up Obama isn't going to get him and his cronies back into power. He'll want to do everything he can to ingratiate himself with the new regime and help get the economy back on track now that he's raped it for all he could.

[nyar.livejournal.com]

The first anti-war protest for the new president is in SF today. I was told this before going to the non-demoniational (but really obama, because it was SF) party I went to at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts yesterday. And all I could think of is your first point. THe rest, well, we can wait for that.

Congress owes Obama somewhat for their margins, he probably has a mandate to them, if not the American People. It remains to be seen how he spends that. I have hope, but I also expect disappointment.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Awesome indeed! ... but you still can't trust `em. :)

[dpk.livejournal.com]

Today?

http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/hillary_clinton_resumes

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Meh, the Democrats in Congress backed off at the slightest sign of resistance from the Republicans. They'd throw up their hands and say, "Oh well, we tried!" I mean, i'd love to see Reid and Pelosi threaten the "nuclear option", so the Republicans can get a taste. But it'd never happen... i mean, christ, they're such a pack of wimps that i doubt they'll even have the gumption to tell Joe Benedict Lieberman to get the fuck out. HE FUCKING CAMPAIGNED WITH MCCAIN! At least Zell Miller got to give his fellow Democrats a hearty fuck-you and then left public office.