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Yes my friends now that the election is over and we all return to our lives,so too do the politicians
return to their respective
duties.I too hear the promise in their voices as they say thing will change in the coming 4 years….but I have to seriously
wonder how that will come to be….?

Will some cosmic miracle suddenly beget us….a magical spell….
an opening of the heavens, if you will ?
Will politicians place to the side all their long believed ideologies
and simply operate from the perspective of doing what is right for our country,
doing what is needed for our country ?

Will the Presidents,and the democratic agenda change so drastically
that it will now make the Republicans more willing to work with them?
Or will the Republican Conservatives agenda
change so dramatically that it will make the democrats and President more willing to work with them?

Nawwwwwwwwwwww be serious Lemur !!!!!!!!

None of that is apt to happen anytime soon….I mean we all know that right…?
But what can cause a Lemur such unbelief you may be asking yourselves…?

Time for cut and paste Lemur to make his appearance my friends….lol….:)
The following article is for your consideration my friends.

Mitch McConnell is already back to obstruction at all costs
By Jamelle Bouie

Negotiations about the “fiscal cliff” are set to begin soon, and Mitch McConnell
is already signaling that he doesn’t intend to budge or cooperate.
If anything, in the wake of Tuesday’s election, he is signaling that Republicans will adopt a strategy of
categorical opposition even faster than he did after Obama’s victory four years ago:

“The American people did two things: they gave President Obama a second chance to fix the problems that even he admits
he failed to solve during his first four years in office,
and they preserved Republican control of the House of Representatives,” McConnell said in a statement.
“The voters have not endorsed the failures or excesses of the President’s first term,
they have simply given him more time to finish the job they asked him to do together with a Congress
that restored balance to Washington after two years of one-party control.”

Of course, McConnell doesn’t have the leverage here;
the momentum lies with Obama and Senate Democrats, who will enter 2013
with a larger and more liberal majority than before.

McConnell’s strategy of opposition and obstruction was the definition of high risk, high reward.
The goal of refusing cooperation with Obama was to generate public discontent with Democratic “partisanship,”
and turn the Obama agenda — the stimulus, the Affordable Care Act and Dodd-Frank — into an albatross
for the Democratic Party.
The hope was that, in 2012, a Republican presidential nominee would use that discontent to run on a platform
of bipartisan unity, and indeed, in the final weeks of his campaign, Mitt Romney did exactly that.

But this potential reward — a one-term Obama presidency — was counterbalanced by a massive risk.
The practical effect of refusing cooperation with Democrats was to force them to adopt unusual amount of party unity.
It’s not hard to imagine a world where moderate Democrats watered down Obamacare to win over Republicans.
In fact, this almost happened: Democrats were desperate for Republican votes
following Scott Brown’s win in Massachusetts,
and would have reduced the scope of the Affordable Care Act if it meant bipartisan support.
But by refusing all offers for a compromise, McConnell forced Democrats to negotiate with themselves,
and tough out the political circumstances. The result was a health care bill that —
despite liberal disappointments — was more progressive than it might have been.

This pattern repeated itself throughout Obama’s first term, and left him with a set of partisan achievements
that were more liberal out of necessity. Of course,
if McConnell’s strategy had worked out — and public discontent forced Obama out of office —
this wouldn’t have mattered; Republicans could just repeal the Obama agenda and move forward.
But, as we saw on Tuesday, Obama was reelected with a larger and more liberal majority in the Senate.
As such, the Obama agenda — which Republicans could have weakened and watered down —
is certain to survive and become an integral part of American life.

In other words, McConnell’s strategy of categorical opposition has been a tactical and strategic failure.
Not only will Obama stay president for the next four years,
but he will implement the final plank of the American welfare state — universal access to health insurance —
without Republican input.
The Obama agenda is here to stay, and to a large degree, Republicans have Mitch McConnell to blame.

Jamelle Bouie is a staff writer at The American Prospect, where he writes a blog .

While DL does not specifically agree with the article writers wording in the final paragraph my friends,
he does agree with it’s overall sentiment and within the entire intent of this blog.
Indeed and thankfully,”The Obama agenda is here to stay”.

Hmmm  Mitch McConnel where have I heard this name before…
ohhhhh now I remember I heard it from one of his clones….I forget which one specifically ,but it was either John(the boner)Boehner, or Eric Cantor.

Source:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/mitch-mcconnell-is-already-back-to-obstruction-at-all-costs/2012/11/08/37a05f00-29cf-11e2-96b6-8e6a7524553f_blog.html

Now perhaps a couple of video’s may be appropriate  DL……
The following video’s are for your consideration my friends….:)

Too subtle for you my friends…well then lets try this one….

“They”…….who is the, “they”,Beck speaks of…..?
Ohhhhhh you mean all the people who voted for President Obama….
And now God must destroy us because of what….?
Proof positive that Beck is insane….well now you have it my friends…

Ted Who….?
OHHHHHH NOZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ !
Oh my God please do not get the Lemur started on a rant about Ted,
(I shit my pants to get out of the draft,I like to kill animals because God says it’s ok to do so ,
I am a real American…) Nugent !

In closing my friends I am fairly sure that you too are now wondering exactly how all this bipartisan cooperation will come about…..?

Thank you
DL