President George W. Bush didn’t have a lot of bipartisanship while in office but he still got what he wanted passed on Capital Hill. The Democrats were just as much obstructionist to Bush’s plans as Republicans are to Obama’s plans.
Bush and the Republicans had to go to the nuclear option just to get their trillion-plus-dollar tax cuts for the top 5 percent richest Americans. The GOP and Bush did what they needed to do in order to take the country in their direction.
Obama and the Democrats need to use about the same tactics, if they want to get anything passed this year. President Obama has proven to me so far, that he is the right man, in the right place, at the right time in history. He needs to stay focused and not surround himself with a bunch of yes-men and remember he is the commander and chief.
The new Republican National Committee (RNC) motivational power point that promotes fear, extreme negative feelings toward existing administration, peer-to-peer pressure and ego driven are all proven and approved by RNC to be recruiting methods. After being nicknamed the evil empire for years the RNC wants to switch that title to the DNC.
I guess they couldn’t come up with anything new. Their slogan “save the country from trending toward socialism” is about 200 years too late. With these types of motivational points and the inability to come up with anything original, it shows the RNC is extremely far right-winged.
Tim Mahaffey
Middletown
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Letter: Democrats need to use same tactics as GOP
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Letter: Union attitude must prevail for recovery
Any recovery for the middle class, in the recovery of our economy, will be led by the recovery of the union attitude in America. Nothing else.
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Letter: Lutz not representing the working class
I feel bad that Rep. Lutz (R) is sad, because Democrats at the Statehouse are representing the working class people of Indiana. While he is representing big business.
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Viewpoint:: Washington must wake up to missile threat
Three years after President Obama opened an outstretched hand to Iran and attempted to reset relations with Russia, the former has restarted its drive to build nuclear weapons including recent missile testing and saber rattling while the latter has dropped its diplomatic relations to Cold War temperatures.
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Letter: Consumer-driven economy will pay off debt
To save America some money — by acclimation of course — let’s not have a presidential election in 2012. We already have a good president who will do his best to kill all Republican bills (DOA) and, consequently, create more good-paying jobs in the $30 per hour range.
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Letter: Gingrich cashes in on political amnesia
Rasmussen says that Romney has flattened nationally. Why?
Two reasons seem to tell the tale. Gingrich has shown that he will fight, and Romney is a Mormon, believed to be a “cult” by a majority of evangelicals. -
Letter: Hiring Winkler not wise spending
As a taxpayer I want to know that my taxes are being spent wisely. Hiring Greg Winkler at a salary of $126,000 is not wise spending.
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Letter: Bill of Rights being nullified by new law
President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act on New Year’s Eve. I doubt many Americans noticed its implications because they do not yet comprehend the big picture. This law, coupled with the Patriot Act, is paving the way for America’s direction toward tyranny.
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Letter: $14 trillion debt started by previous president
I’m a proud atheist who’s lucky enough to know the difference between fact and fantasy.
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Letter: Economy putting people in the gutters
We are now getting the results of putting people in the gutters. We need to take a second look at our government and its policies. It’s not working.
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Letter: Union attitude must prevail for recovery
