What options are left?

[kentuck]

If the Republicans will not compromise on anything other than their own pet projects, then what options do the President and the Democrats have left?

They have kicked the Democrats in the shin and have spit in their faces and called their Mamas bad names. They are looking for a fight but the Democrats refuse to accommodate. Instead, they prefer to surrender in the name of compromise.

From reading many of the posts here on DU, it seems a lot of people are depressed and obsessed with this Administration's incompetence and unwillingness to fight back.

What options are left? There are not going to be any deals made with the Republicans that will benefit the Democrats. There are not going to be any big job creation plans that are taken seriously. Republicans simply refuse to play ball with this President.

What should the Democrats do? What should the President do? This is not a favorable situation to find oneself...

[Enrique]

1. go big

stop trying to play with them, they don't want to play with you.

[Doctor_J]

10. Like what, and who are you talking to?

[Enrique]

14. big jobs bill

talking to Obama.

[Shagbark Hickory]

2. It seems like the most logical solution at this stage is secession.

[MannyGoldstein]

3. As Dr. Dean would say, we need to make sure that

we hang it around their necks. If we don't we seem to be complicit.

Remember how we hung ending Medicare around their necks? That position is now radioactive for them, and they're terrified of it. We fight, we win.

[Doctor_J]

9. How can we do that when the president is on their side?

He's the one who proposed raising the Medicare eligibility age. I guess the question is, who is the "we" and who is the "they in "hang it around their necks"?

[Llewlladdwr]

13. Ummm, you are aware that we're about to get Medicare 'reform' shoved down our throats, right?

Big win for us!

[canadianbeaver]

4. YOUR OPTIONS HAVE BEEN TAKEN OFF THE TABLE..NT

[Safetykitten]

5. For me, ride out the next republican presidential two term nightmare.

[tridim]

6. Continue to push righteous, popular, rational legislation.. Let the R's object..

and then beat the ever loving shit out of them in 2012.

[leveymg]

7. When you negotiate from your opponent's middle ground, you quickly run out of room

to maneuver. This is the problem with putting centrists in charge. We made a terrible mistake electing Barack Hoover.

[canadianbeaver]

8. BARAK HOOVER......love it......eom

[RKP5637]

11. +1, n/t

[kentuck]

12. How was this President able to discourage so many Democrats?

That he is now becoming a mockery of the worst Republican of Democratic jokes?

It was no easy task to turn off so many of your supporters in such a short time.

It is rather depressing.

[leveymg]

16. Discouraged isn't the word for it . . . Hope & Change was a massive Bait & Switch

We're infuriated and we just found out there are no f-cking returns and no warrantee on this sucker.
:( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :(
They won't fix it and now we're stuck with it.

:( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :(

[MineralMan]

17. No, thank you very much.

Unadulterated crap.

[blkmusclmachine]

15. There are only DINOs in DC now:

Scratch their skin, and they bleed GOP blood.

[RagAss]

18. Die in a fascist state...that's what the fuck is left.

[steelmania75]

19. primary Obama or empower a 3rd party. sorry, the Dems are corporate controlled and have been since

the 1980s, when they realized the GOP had succumbed to corporate power and so the Democrats had to do the same to stay relevant.

[reggie the dog]

20. leave the usa, give up on it as a country and move to somewhere

in the European Union like Denmark, Finland, France, Sweden, Scotland or outside the EU in Norway or Iceland.