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Mo Do showing that the Mo is actually for "moron" - Heidi Heitkamp won't face reelection until two years <em>after</em> Obama is out of office. How the flying fuck is he supposed to make her give a rat's ass how much he'll "support" her?

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But ... Michelle won't let Barry take the cannoli.

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Those bastards are his biggest problem... if they do go down, it'll be GOPtards taking their seats.

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There's little or nothing that can be done to stop the flashy mass shootings. It's the day-to-day carnage on the streets that adds up to a death toll in the thousands.

Making it difficult for people to load up the car with four dozen guns at some redneck gun show, and then peddle them on the streets of NYC and Chicago, is what the legislation was all about. Fucking NRA wants that to continue, just so their fuckwit paranoid preppers can add to their arsenals without the gubmint knowing about it.

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And despite the will of the people, 90% of whom wanted the other guy!

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Yeah, Peggy and Mo! You nailed it. Obama should have done like what LBJ was famous for--all those arm-twisting phone calls, the backroom deals, the cussing ... Obama's problem is, He Just. Doesn't. Know. How. to Lead. Witness the collapse of Obamacare, the failure to end the war in Iraq, the disastrous state of the economy, which has plummeted since 2009. Go back to the professoriat, Bamz! You are a Fail!

Yeah, the fact that LBJ had the biggest Dem majority in both houses of Congress in modern history had nothing to do with his success in passing legislation.

That said, 2010 was a huge Obama fuckup, as he has acknowledged.

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How does Dowd know what was and was not done behind the doors of the White House? In any event, the thing to do with chickenshit legislators is to replace them, and that's where Obama can put the "bully pulpit" of his office to good use.

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Forgive Peggy. She's used to having Ollie North as a bagman/fixer to get things done.

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I call bullshit. When was the last time Maureen Down expressed herself in paragraph form. Even tweets are too long for her. She writes in half-twits.

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