Mad_Machine76
Mad_Machine76's JournalI've sampled a few minutes here or there
How anybody could listen to a second of their coverage and believe that they are "fair and balanced" is completely beyond me. They are nothing if not a 24-7-365 RNC Propaganda platform. There is NOTHING non-partisan about them. Every story/news segement is slanted as far to the right and against President Obama, Democrats, liberals, et. al as you can possibly get. If you actually were an uncritical thinker, you'd think that President Obama and pretty much any Democrat was a pretty horrible person.
When Republicans develop suitable outrage over everything (that we know) happened
during their last (mis-)Administration, maybe I'll join them in their outrage over the ACA website and their hypocritical, partisan, and self-serving demands for resignations. Maybe.
Until then.................
I don't get all of the adoration for him
I've even heard some progressives I know speak fondly of him and ask me what I think of having him for President
The ONLY things he has *going* for him is that he is no Perry or Cuccinelli (which will likely keep him from being nominated in the first place) and that he's one of the few Republicans willing to tell the RWNJs to get over their Islamophobia obsession but that's about it. In terms of same-sex marriage, he only decided to stop fighting it but he never supported it so he gets no brownie points from me.
Christie isn't that courageous or pragmatic
Yeah, he decided not to waste more taxpayer dollars to defend the ban on same-sex marriage like some wingnuts might have done but that hardly makes him special- when he could have signed a bill earlier to allow it. 
I would think that Republicans would be thankful
that it didn't cost too much money because that's what they're all about right? 
Sometimes it's better to pay a little more to somebody who will do a better job. What is it that they used to say: Pennywise and pound foolish?
Are Republicans now interested in helping people utilize ACA?
If so, let's be sure to take them them up on their newfound concern for improving people's ability to sign up for coverage under the ACA.
Why does the media care so much about "the future of the Republican Party"?
I'm a little more concerned about the future of the country and the well being of its citizens! They can spend hours wondering about the future of the GOP and the Tea Party but apparently it's too much to ask that they spend a fraction of that time on some people not having access to basic necessities, a living wage, health care, etc.
It's the next new shiny object now that the shutdown/debt ceiling fight is (temporarily) over
Look for an ever increasing drumbeat for Sebelius to resign because....um...I guess somebody should? *ugh* 
Exactly!
What Boehner, Cantor, et. al used to engineer this debacle- the rule change in the House that prevented anybody but him or Cantor from bringing anything to a vote and Boehner's unwavering allegiance to a rule that wasn't really a rule ("Hastert Rule"
- was what caused everything. Having a "debt ceiling" law doesn't help things either when some members of Congress are perfectly willing to prevent it from being raised as leverage for getting what they want but, of course, nobody seriously played around with not actually raising it until 2011 regardless of who was in charge. I wouldn't have begrudged Boehner and the House GOP a SINGLE frivolous vote to get their insanity out of their system but once the Senate stripped the defunding Obamacare language and sent it back to the House, they should've just passed it and sent it on so as to prevent the shutdown. Also, I don't really care if most Republicans vote against raising the debt ceiling as long as they allow it to finally pass in the end like it needed to be. Republicans need to win elections if they want their agenda passed just like Democrats and if we have divided government both sides need to work together to get things done in order to keep government functioning correctly. Elections come and go but the business of running the country goes on no matter who is in charge. Democrats understand this. The Republican Tea Party evidently does not.
I feel like screaming and throwing things
every time I hear the Republicans (or any number of mindless pundits) start in on the "President Obama isn't leading" meme and somebody really needs to call them on it IMHO. I know that you have only limited time to respond during interviews but can you try to call them out next time they start in on it? The truth of the matter is that President Obama can lead, has lead, and will keep on leading this country but he can't do anything with the Republican Tea Party when they consciously decide to be obstinate and obstructionist. Nobody can make a**holes decide to stop being a**holes and you can't "lead" them anywhere if they are bound and determined to fight you every inch of the way on EVERYTHING. There is so much evidence out there now that Republicans weren't going to give President Obama so much as the time of day from the beginning. I wish that the people pushing this "lack of leadership" meme were required to give an example or two of concrete things that President Obama could do differently to get the Republicans to listen to him though they probably couldn't actually come up with anything if pressed. Also, anybody whom seriously believes that President Obama hasn't done enough to bring everybody together and hasn't been "post-partisan" enough hasn't been paying enough attention during his Presidency to what he's been doing and/or saying.
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Name: Mara Alis ButlerGender: Female
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