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It's been a month since Election Day.

Deal with it.

This is the best you can do? An empty suit is still better than one stuffed full of shiat.

oldebayer: An empty suit is still better than one stuffed full of shiat.

No shiat, that is some funny . as for subby:

Sorry, but President-Elect is not supposed to inject themselves into anything. Obama is walking that line ok.

EABOD, subby

I didn't think it was in the Huffington Post's mandate to post the truth.

TheConvincingSavant: I didn't think it was in the Huffington Post's mandate to post the truth.

You always get right to the core of the issue.

arkansas: Sorry, but President-Elect is not supposed to inject themselves into anything. Obama is walking that line ok.

Damn, that's dumb.

NewportBarGuy: TheConvincingSavant: I didn't think it was in the Huffington Post's mandate to post the truth.

You always get right to the core of the issue.

TheConvincingSavant is neither.

haha libs! you voted for someone who hasn't even been inaugurated yet!

flavor of the month: haha libs! you voted for someone who hasn't even been inaugurated yet!

Haha, now that's funny!

what, exactly, is there that he could do? Why isnt the current president doing anything?

So WTF is a guy with zero constitutional authority supposed to farking do?

p.s. Barney Frank has zero business giving anybody advice on how to handle economic problems.

Yes...please keep underestimating Obama. It's paid such huge dividends so far, hasn't it?

I'll just stand on the sidelines and point and laugh...

/point, point
//laugh, laugh

FTFA: Democrats are growing impatient with President-elect Barack Obama's refusal to inject himself in the major economic crises confronting the country.

*facepalm*

WTF is he supposed to be doing? He doesn't have any authority until 1/20/09. Unless someone's doing the time warp, we're not there yet.

SpaceyCat: *facepalm*

WTF is he supposed to be doing? He doesn't have any authority until 1/20/09. Unless someone's doing the time warp, we're not there yet.

Don't you get it? Since they didn't vote for him, they get to demand what form "change" takes. And they want change to mean him doing something outside his constitutional mandate, so they can then excoriate him for overstepping his bounds.

Makes perfect sense _{if you're a NRO staff writer}.

F*ck off subby, if he WAS taking a more active role, you'd be biatching that he doesn't have any real authority yet. In the eyes of the right, no matter what he does, he's wrong.

flavor of the month: haha libs! you voted for someone who hasn't even been inaugurated yet!

Thread over. Last one out, hit the lights when you leave.

Obama is doing exactly what he should be doing. The country right now is still Bush's. And until Obama takes the oath of office, there is nothing he can or should do about it.

flavor of the month: haha libs! you voted for someone who hasn't even been inaugurated yet!

+1 sir.

/Damn! They tricked me. I thought I was voting for a president! Whadda ya mean he isn't one yet!?

SilentStrider: The country right now is still Bush's.

This needs to be repeated a few times.

Bush is still the president.
Bush is still the president.
Bush is still the president.

And more importantly, he's been the president for the last eight farking years. If you've got a complaint with how things are going in or around the ol' executive branch, you know where the blame lies.

propasaurus: TheConvincingSavant is neither.



...discuss

Obama is doing the right thing. They can get as impatient as they want but until he is President, he isn't in a position to really do anything about it. Even then he will only have so much he can do to fix things. He's doing the right thing so far in my opinion.

You mean as soon as he was elected he can't start doing stuff?

You know, if Obama was injecting himself and trying to work with Bush to make decisions...these same people would be complaining about how Obama is trying to usurp Bush's power and is doing something illegal and unconstitutional and he's breaking the fabric of society by trying to be de facto-President before he is legally able to do so.

flavor of the month: haha libs! you voted for someone who hasn't even been inaugurated yet!

heh

RoxtarRyan: You mean as soon as he was elected he can't start doing stuff?

Fun fact: he's not even been elected yet. The electoral college doesn't sit until Dec. 15.

"He says we only have one president at a time," Frank said. "I'm afraid that overstates the number of presidents we have. He's got to remedy that situation."

Overstates? So, we have no presidents?

It seems to me Bush checked out about a year ago. I don't think I've heard from him since the primaries really started up... Someone needs to get him to executive-order Obama the Presidential powers so he can go smoke weed and play GTA in Crawford. I doubt he wants to be the President any more than Palin wants to take the SATs.

How did Barney Frank miss the list of Democrats who need to go away?

If he stuck his nose in there, he'd catch hell for that, too.

If the economy cannot wait 2 more months for Obama's input, then the economy is not salvageable.

/voted for McCain but intent on giving the President-Elect a fair shake

"The Obama team has to step up," Sen. Christopher Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee and one of the lead negotiators, said Nov. 21 in Hartford, Conn. "In the minds of the people, this is the Obama administration. I don't think we can wait until January 20."

i love that line

dletter: "He says we only have one president at a time," Frank said. "I'm afraid that overstates the number of presidents we have. He's got to remedy that situation."

Overstates? So, we have no presidents?

Now that I think about it...don't we address each living former president as President ___________? So in a way we have a few presidents at a time.

NewportBarGuy [TotalFark] Quote 2008-12-04 09:53:45 PM
TheConvincingSavant: I didn't think it was in the Huffington Post's mandate to post the truth.

You always get right to the core of the issue.

I am also detecting wife-like typing

Marine Core Soldier: WHARRGARBL

Subby needs some cheese to go with that whine.

On the other hand, Bush is a useless pile of shiat* so maybe Obama should step in.

*let the filter catch that one

flavor of the month: haha libs! you voted for someone who hasn't even been inaugurated yet!

What fools we were! In 2012 I'm definately voting for someone who's currently inaugurated.

Barny Frank wants Obama to stick his neck out and give the rest of congress political cover without the ability to actually so anything.

That's retarded. Even if Obama was president he should not be dictating the details of the deal. He should be guiding it along (which he is mostly doing now) but not diving into the details. That is congress's job.

At least Obama is pushing his own party to do something. Bush couldn't even do that.

In the minds of the people, this is the Obama administration.

In the eyes of the law, this is the Bush administration.

Obama is supposed to be learning the ropes in this period, not acting on the woefully incomplete knowledge he had prior to his training. WTF do they want, exactly?

propasaurus: NewportBarGuy: TheConvincingSavant: I didn't think it was in the Huffington Post's mandate to post the truth.

You always get right to the core of the issue.

TheConvincingSavant is neither.

IIRC, savantism is technically a form of mental retardation, so it fits him a tiny bit ;)

Weren't people like Subby the exact same ones claiming two weeks ago that there was no such thing as the Office of the President-Elect?

i would just like to say the words 'hot barack injection', absent any context or actual purpose.

PerfectlyCromulent: IIRC, savantism is technically a form of mental retardation, so it fits him a tiny bit ;)

He's a convincing retard, that's for sure.

Jim_Callahan: Obama is supposed to be learning the ropes in this period, not acting on the woefully incomplete knowledge he had prior to his training.

is that training anything like this training? (new window)

But he has stayed away from trying to dictate remedies for the toughest problems Congress is confronting: the auto industry's troubles and how to spend the $700 billion bailout.

Obviously, the question will take some consideration before answering, seeing that it is the toughest problem, you farking filthy GOPers created. In otherwords, shut your yappers for a minute to let the man think, you treason supporting GOP vermin.

SpaceyCat: FTFA: Democrats are growing impatient with President-elect Barack Obama's refusal to inject himself in the major economic crises confronting the country.

*facepalm*

WTF is he supposed to be doing? He doesn't have any authority until 1/20/09. Unless someone's doing the time warp, we're not there yet.

Well, I think we made a jump to the left on election day, albeit a little one. Guess we'll see who steps to the right next...

Republicans still not seeing what Democrats have been trying to tell them for the last 6 months; it's over, you're finished

No, I have not seen what republicans have seen for the last 2 years, because I do not have my head stuck up my ass.