"Once these people we elect get to Washington they become corrupt."

You're speaking of Congress? That's 535 people at any one time not to mention all of those who have served in Congress who no longer serve in Congress. They're all corrupt? How do you come to that conclusion? Because they don't do what you want?

You don't think that our politicians are corrupt?

"our policians". All 535 members of Congress? Or all in the US?

Actually DT Obama is turning out to be more like Hitler after all Obama has not compromised on anything. Obamas version of compromise is everyone else but him compromising.

Local/state/Congress/Senate

mig, almost everybody is corrupted. it just comes down to who is less corrupted.

NBC News and news services updated 35 minutes ago 2010-11-26

WASHINGTON — The White House has identified the person whose elbow injured President Barack Obama during a pickup game of basketball on Friday as Rey Decerega, who works for the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute.

Obama needed 12 stitches in his upper lip after being hit by Decerega's elbow during the game.

Ouch! It sounds like, and by a couple pictures I've seen, looks like, the cut is inside his mouth (lip)??? Better for appearance sake, but can you imagine the pain when you try to eat something? Anyway, glad it's not serious.



TIS

Once this chappy had deliberately elbowed the President in the face, shouldn't 15 bodyguards have leapt on him and beaten him up or something?

You play a pickup game of basketball, and an elbow in the face is not out of the realm of possibility, whether you're the president or not.

they probably dealt with him afterwards. one thing for sure, if it was a don you elbowed in the face, you would never be heard from again.

"I don't care WHO you are, don't bring that weak s*** into MY lane, son!!!"

maybe the pistons should sign him up

Like the public option? Bush tax cuts??? Closing Guantanamo? He compromises on everything. Why don't you try using an intelligent argument instead of your puerile and defamatory comparison to Hitler. You are crazier than Glen Beck.

I'm just curious, Iceman. What, exactly, did Bush compromise on?

He compromised on Laura's offer to keep her or Jack Daniels.

Obama makes surprise trip to Afghanistan
By Christi Parsons, Reporting from Washington
December 3, 2010|8:46 a.m.

The president's second trip to the war zone will include a visit to thank U.S. troops. A planned trip to President Hamid Karzai's palace in Kabul is canceled due to bad weather, so Obama will conference with him over a secure video link.

The cloud cover in Kabul is at less than 1,000 feet, with 45 mph winds and less than two miles' visibility. Conditions make helicopter travel "not an option," White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told the White House press pool.

Obama exited Air Force One at Bagram in total darkness, in keeping with security protocols. Wearing a dark brown bomber jacket and sweater with no tie, Obama greeted Gen. David Petraeus at the foot of the stairs and then left quickly for the Bagram hospital.

Obama is set to meet with five soldiers and three civilian contractors who are patients at Bagram, and will award four Purple Hearts, according to the pool report from the base to the White House.

The president left Thursday night about 10 p.m. from Andrews Air Force base near Washington. He landed Friday morning around 9:30 a.m. EST.

Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes told pool reporters that the trip planning began a month ago. The main reason for the trip was for Obama to spend time with U.S. troops during the holiday season, to thank them and to wish them happy holidays at a "particularly tough time of the year" for service members.

The president will speak with troops who mainly are from the 101st Airborne Division, a unit which is on its fourth combat deployment and is spending its fourth holiday season away from home. There also will be members of all branches of the service there.

Petraeus will introduce the president to the troops.

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So is Obama right or wrong to give the Republicans what they want as far as tax cuts? It still has to pass the House and Senate and that is not a certainty...

Peter Welch

Sanders hints at filibuster

He has no choice. Without a supermajority it can't even be brought up for a vote, and if he allows them to expire then he will be drilled for raising taxes on everyone.

WASHINGTON — A U.S. judge in Virginia on Monday declared unconstitutional a key part of President Barack Obama's landmark healthcare law in the first major setback on an issue that will likely end up at the Supreme Court.

U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson, appointed to the bench by President George W. Bush in 2002, backed arguments by the state of Virginia that Congress exceeded its authority by requiring that individuals buy health insurance by 2014 or face a fine.

.."The Minimum Essential Coverage Provision is neither within the letter nor the spirit of the Constitution," Hudson wrote in a 42-page decision. However, he declined to invalidate the entire healthcare law, a small victory for Obama.

judicial activism is delicious.

Imagine if Congress doesn't pass DADT repeal, how the courts will handle that.

GOP/Obama-sponsored $858 billion "Second Stimulus" Passes

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1210/46531.html

Tea Party gonna choke on that shit in the morning.

DADT repeal passed 63-33, assured passage tomorrow/monday, and we join UK/Israel/Canada in realizing what Barry Goldwater said a very long time ago: "You don't have to be straight to shoot straight"

EDIT - Fox News and their "experts" are pissed at DADT Repeal, visualizing the future in a DADT-free Armed Forces:

Thanks Ronnie! I've seen all these and for the life of me I couldn't remember that piece.

Anyway, great news and about time.

Just know if we do strike that nuclear plant of yours, its gonna get Gay Bombed.

That would be double insulting to Ahmadinejad.

Actually, I think he would enjoy it.

Mullahs definately would.

You don't let kids in the military, do you? Mullahs are pedophiles. They might enjoy gay bomb, but they never admit it in public though.

My mistake.

Fun Fact: Iran has the 2nd largest foreign diplomatic corps acredited to the Vatican. Just saying.



Ah, they'll just blame it the West for making them dance to ABBA.

Joe Manchin Skipped DREAM And DADT Votes For A Christmas Party

Must've been a hell of a party.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/...stmas-party.php