Vote sets the stage for potentially tumultuous negotiations with House leaders over the final shape of the legislation. While the overall dollar amounts are similar, the Senate version includes $110 billion more in tax cuts and allocates fewer funds to school construction and state governments.
How I hate centrism.
Long ago, Marx wrote about capitalists and the proletariat forming two great camps in European politics. Today in America, we are witnessing the stabilization of two great camps in American politics. One camp is an alliance between the white intelligentsia and minorities (Latinos, blacks, Asians, gays, Jews); the other camp, rich whites and poor whites. Obama, of course, represents the former alliance—indeed, he is the physical embodiment of that alliance, being at once an intellectual and a minority. A meaning of the stimulus package that is not connected with the real struggle between these camps is an empty meaning.
Centrism around here is called right wing everywhere else in the world.
Those centrists have power because the Democrats gave it to them by adopting the supermajority cloture rule, in accord with Senate custom, which ain’t change. And a president who hands out a cabinet post to a senator who doesn’t even vote for the Democratic proposal — what can you say?
Around the rest of the world, the names for this kind of power-giveaway activity would be:
“stupid”
“self disempowering”
“codepednent”
“Quisling”
“spineless”
“hidebound traditionalists clinging to archaic Senate customs”
“Vichy” or
“appeasement.”
uhm, Barack is centrist.
ah
the whining of the Malcontents.
Not even Obama is good enough for them.
Go outside and play in the sunshine, children!
@2 for the win, surprisingly.
What sunshine?
5
it is a balmy sunny 70 degrees here in God’s Country.
Note too: the middle class is still disenfranchised.
Palin was the only candidate representing them.
She was blackballed by the elites and their media.
Because only she could represent real change — rule by the majority.
@7 Palin represented uninformed hicks who shoot wolves from helicopters for fun. That’s not middle class, it’s the shallow end of the American genepool. I’m all for real change unless it means that those people are running the country.
dang, @8 for runner up.
You’re wrong about poor whites:
http://redbluerichpoor.com/blog/2008/11/…
You are wrong about voting patterns for Obama. He’s destabilized your already exaggerated generalization.
“Marx wrote about capitalists and the proletariat forming two great camps in European politics”
he did? were these ‘camps” allies? links please charles..
Charles,
Disagree. Centrism is the way to go in America. Obama kept Gates at Defense, woos Republicans who question the stimulus and is going to keep rendition:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB12342291…
These are but a few examples of how centrist Pres. Obama is. This is to his credit.
Heel !
Fetch !!
Roll Over !!!
good boy