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In reply to the discussion: Every Congressman that took part in this seditious act should be censured on the floor of the House. [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)it as a kind, homey, albeit maybe gently belittling, simile. Not unkind given that Obama did pass up some important opportunities while repeatedly holding that ball and hoping it'd help rebuild the center.
LW hostiles, though, used it to smear Obama and Democrats in general as intrinsically incompetent and eager to appease and collaborate with RW corruption. More than a little dog whistle to the use, also.
That's an of-course in those who display the exact same kind of corrosive nastiness and irrational dishonesty and implacable hostility toward Democrats as their counterparts on the right, frequently double teaming with them against Democrats while smiling and claiming only the highest principles for all the gullible Charlie Browns in the electorate.
You have a bowl of shit in front of you, and all youve got to do is eat half of it instead of the whole thing. Its still shit.
Well, time to get back to cleaning the refrigerator. It didn't disappear.