Bloomberg: Soros-Funded Democratic Idea Factory Becomes Obama Policy Font

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[Mega]

Re: Bloomberg: Soros-Funded Democratic Idea Factory Becomes Obama Policy Font

One term Commie bastard!
He make Carter look good!
Mike

[tsetsefly]

Re: Bloomberg: Soros-Funded Democratic Idea Factory Becomes Obama Policy Font

its funny that all the democrats where mad that Bush policy were sometimes ideas created by these lobbyist/think tanks... its the same for the democracts...
I wonder if they will get mad over this???

[Starving Steve]

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The Bush Administration had ideas?????????????????

In education, the Bush Administration chose to continue with the 150 year old education curriculum in the public schools, so it was more of the same with the "Back to Basics" programme under Bush. Nothing changed except that teachers were bullied about and treated as serfs. A treadmill was put into the schools where teachers had to teach to timed tests--- the same old curriculum played over and over again, faster and faster, like a treadmill goes round. This was called "Accountability in Education".

In healthcare, the Bush Administration chose to do nothing. They told the people that they had the best healthcare system in the world, so why change it? Just as with education, the new programme in healthcare was more of the same old programme, but even worse.

On the economy, the Bush Administration chose to let the Wall Street and the free market do whatever they wanted to do. Again, the Bush Administration had no plan except to run deficits as large as possible and let the economy grow as fast as possible. This meant tax cuts and spending increases, and that was supposed to mean economic growth.....Sadly, it meant ballooning deficits and depression, not growth, but no-one could tell the Republicans otherwise.

In foreign policy, the Bush Administration chose doing whatever it wanted to do, in a unilateral approach, without consultation or consideration of anyone, be they friend or foe. And this "cowboy" foreign policy approach led to endless war, endless costs, and American isolation in the world.

Finally, the opening speeches of the Bush Administration were communications which addressed the extreme rightwing base of the Republican party--- the religious-right in the South. These communications may have further united the Republican Party base, but they tore apart the fabric of the United States. These speeches created resentment and hatred of the President and his politics.

Contrast what Barack Obama is doing now to what Bush immediately after winning in 2001 and 2004. Obama is soliciting ideas from everyone, and he is reaching out in an attempt to unify the country. Just this week, for example, Obama was considering giving John McCain a position in his administration.... Bush, on the other hand, spoke exclusively to his extreme rightwing political base and purposefully divided the nation. It was North vs. South, blue states vs. red states, urban vs. rural, liberal vs. conservative, humanists vs. believers. "My way or the highway" was the Bush message, right from the start; there was no compromise about anything.

Sad to say, the Bush Administration had no new ideas on anything: not in matters of healthcare, nor in education policy, nor about the economy, nor in foreign policy. New ideas and new thinking were, after all, foreign to the Republicans, and anything new smacked at the hated intellectualism on the West Coast.

[marvenger]

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Contrast what Barack Obama is doing now to what Bush immediately after winning in 2001 and 2004. Obama is soliciting ideas from everyone, and he is reaching out in an attempt to unify the country.

unfortunately many still see this a weakness. Its an alien concept to them. Not how you you get things done in a fast paced aggressive world.

[tsetsefly]

Re: Bloomberg: Soros-Funded Democratic Idea Factory Becomes Obama Policy Font

Contrast what Barack Obama is doing now to what Bush immediately after winning in 2001 and 2004. Obama is soliciting ideas from everyone, and he is reaching out in an attempt to unify the country. Just this week, for example, Obama was considering giving John McCain a position in his administration.... Bush, on the other hand, spoke exclusively to his extreme rightwing political base and purposefully divided the nation. It was North vs. South, blue states vs. red states, urban vs. rural, liberal vs. conservative, humanists vs. believers. "My way or the highway" was the Bush message, right from the start; there was no compromise about anything.

Go read up on the American Enterprise Institute "

More recently, it has emerged as one of the leading architects of the Bush administration's foreign policy. AEI rents office space to the Project for the New American Century, one of the leading voices that pushed the Bush administration's plan for "regime change" through war in Iraq. AEI reps have also aggressively denied that the war has anything to do with oil."

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php...rise_Institute


or look at: Project for a new american century

these are some of the think tanks where the Bush administration got policy ideas and democrats criticized the fact that think tanks influenced the white house, so I am sure they will have a problem with Obama being influenced by think tanks..
just pointing out hypocracy, thats all...


Now if you want to discuss George Soro's "new" ideas, we could do that, but the socialist agenda he has been preaching for years is nothing "new"...


Obama soliciting ideas from everyone??? you mean from everyone he agrees with.

[we_are_toast]

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OMG!! I just can't believe it! This is the story of the Century!

withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq and a buildup of forces in Afghanistan, a plan for universal health coverage... transforming the energy base ... green jobs linked to alleviating global climate change.

Let me get this straight; The President Elect, supports the issues that are supported by the political party he represents, many of which the party has supported for more than a decade, 66 million people, A very rich guy, and 11 bloggers agree with him.

I am speechless! This is Pulitzer prize winning journalism! We need to get the FBI to investigate how all these people somehow agree on the same principles this party has represented for such a long time.

I for one, will not stand idly by while 11 bloggers watching television run the country! :mad:

I sure wish they would do a story on who REALLY shot JFK.

[phirang]

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i know for a fact soros has some substantial mining interests in his quantum fund.

He doesn't want to see deflation, and he has no qualms about nuking US savings to stop the vacuum.

[LargoWinch]

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phirang, why are you now sporting a "Banned" badge?

[bpr]

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or look at: Project for a new american century

these are some of the think tanks where the Bush administration got policy ideas and democrats criticized the fact that think tanks influenced the white house, so I am sure they will have a problem with Obama being influenced by think tanks..
just pointing out hypocracy, thats all...

I don't recall Democrats criticizing W's use of think tanks per se, but I do recall lefty commentators pointing out troubling policies set forth by said think tanks.

It wasn't Democrats who called out Project for a New American Century's now infamous "Rebuilding America's Defenses" report published exactly 12 months before 9/11:

Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor.

Source

It was liberal intellectuals that brought that up, from Noam Chomsky to Howard Zinn to Democracy Now.

Democrats were busy scmoozing the folks at the Center for American Progress and trying to win at being mediocre.