On 7/23/2011 3:16 AM, Bryan wrote:
> On Jul 23, 7:37 am, > wrote:
>> On 7/22/2011 9:30 PM, sf wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 20:22:07 -0500, > wrote:
>>
>>>> Borders Bookstores is going out of business in September. Meanwhile our US
>>>> government is going out of business in August.
>>
>>> I am so disgusted. Well, the idiots who elected the idiots who are
>>> doing this will be squealing like stuck pigs when their credit card
>>> rates skyrocket.<shaking head> They just don't get it.
>>
>> The republicans seem hell bent on setting themselves up to be the fall
>> guys for every economic problem the American people will be having in
>> the near future. It's a puzzling strategy.
>
> It is bizarre. Usually it's the Democrats who are strategically
> challenged. It's this Tea Party nonsense. The Tea Party is a
> disease. A lot of independents who would otherwise have held their
> noses and voted Republican are going to end up holding their noses and
> voting Democratic.
>>
>> Obama is doing everything he can to allow the republicans to get out of
>> this hole they've dug for themselves and not lose face. Saving face is
>> important in Asian culture. Obviously, he is familiar with this concept
>> because he raised in Hawaii.
>
> The Democratic base isn't very happy with Obama, but we'll be out
> there enthusiastically working for his re-election because the
> Republican Party has gone from merely bad to downright dangerous.

Obama's concessions towards the republicans is interpreted as weakness
but my guess is that he just wants everybody to come out of this looking
good. He's a typical Asian. :-)

>
> --Bryan
>