Long live the Trinity.

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H.E. Barack Hussein Obama (D-Ill), President of the United States of America



H.E. Nancy Patricia Pelosi (D-CA), Speaker of the House of the United States of America



H.E. Harry Mason Reid (D-NV), Senate Majority Leader of the United States of America

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The trinity together.

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The President with each of the trinity.

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Obama is Succeeding

The Economist is hosting an online debate between David Boaz and Elaine Kamarck on the proposed resolution “is Obama failing.” Today I’m a featured contributor to the debate. I observe that Obama is succeeding in changing many aspects of American public policy. For example, he’s done a lot to change K-12 education:

The Obama administration has also spearheaded a little-noticed but rather dramatic reform of K-12 education through its Race to the Top programme. The way this worked was to create a substantial pool of funds to be given away as part of a competitive grant process to states that cut through interest-group demands and implemented evidence-based reforms. The result of this has been a tide of reform sweeping state legislatures all across the land, with restrictions on test-based assessment of teacher quality and arbitrary caps on charter schools falling by the wayside. What’s more, by pairing these reforms with the timely provision of stopgap funds that have allowed states to weather the recession without mass teacher layoffs, the administration has been able to secure union acquiescence in this reform agenda.

He’s also had a number of small-bore spending initiatives:

The administration has also put $19 billion into upgrading America’s health IT infrastructure, $70 billion into clean-energy programmes, $1 billion into better understanding which health treatments actually work and $7 billion to expand access to broadband internet.

And that was all in one law—the stimulus bill! Then there’s this other stuff:

[T]he administration has secured legal authority for the FDA to regulate tobacco, provided health insurance to millions of children, given victims of on-the-job-gender discrimination effective legal rights, confirmed a Supreme Court justice and vastly improved America’s image in the world. Mr Obama has also systematically reformed and reinvigorated America’s regulatory apparatus.

If this agenda had simply been spaced out as one small-to-medium sized achievement per month, and Obama had never attempted systematic reform of the health care system, then his administration would look like a stunning series of policy successes. And with his job approval rating at 51 percent you’d say he was doing fine politically as well. The fact that he accomplished most of the small-to-medium sized stuff in a single giant leap doesn’t mean it didn’t happen nor does the fact that his ambitious health reform drive may not work invalidate everything else that’s happened. In America, it’s hard to pass laws. If you’re passing some, and staying more popular than the other political party, then you’re doing pretty well. The greatest presidents, of course, exceed that standard. But “he’s not getting as much done as Lincoln” is a long way from “he’s a failure and needs to ditch the core of his team.”


http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archi ... eeding.php

[Siciid85]

Nancy Pelosi is weird. she looks nervous when she talks.

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Nancy Pelosi is the Queen Mum of America and the hero of all Democrats. God bless her. She is actually my number one hero in America even before Obama (he is second). I remember Sadeboi asking why I get an orgasm every time I hear Nancy's name and it is only because my response is a testament to who and what she is. The more rethugs hate her the more I value her.

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harry reid is the weakest link among those three you named.
I will say harry reid will fall first in neveda, followed by nancy polosi who is the product of 90s culture war and her enemies are many, who are silent and strategizing their comback,I like joe scarboroughs new modus operandi , which is stay under the radar.
so after big mama polosi is wounded and tainted as a nutcase liberal the unholly trinity called, conservitism, wallstreet and healthcare industry, they will wound obama, and once obama is wounded he will start truly what everbody was expecting, which is "be like carter" but that won`t happend now it will happend when mr obama starts his scond term he will be like jimmy carter 2.0

obama needed this guy in captial hill

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Eaglehawk we call what you wrote "bullshit". I think you read couple corny articles and buy it as the holy bible. Harry is in trouble, true, but Nancy Pelosi is safe in her San Francisco seat until she dies or decides not to be reelected. But Harry is expendable, so it doesn't matter as long as democrats control the Senate the=Democratic Party will continue to be senate majority leader. Nancy however being the first female speaker of the house is the most powerful speaker of U.S house of representatives in history and she is as safe as they come and will continue to be Speaker as long as Democrats control the House and this is surety. Republicans will never retake the House, right now it is 259 Democrats to 176 Republicans. The rethugs don't stand a chance.

God bless her. I remember when I fell in love with this lady when she defied the Bush administration and paid a visit to Syria back in 2006 trying to hurt Bush's warmongering by meeting with the Syrian leadership and showing them all of America is not on board with the neocon Bush and his friends.




I know no one was more excited then her during Obama's election. God bless her. I am certain my grandchildren will read about how her leadership of the U.S House and Obama helped reshape American society.

[Siciid85]

I vote democratic mostly because I believe they are lesser evil of the two. But I dont ever love any of them. Take it easy Volty you're getting little too emotionally vested in this.

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I am a Nancy Pelosi Democrat.

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will see weather iron woman polosi is powerfull as you make her out to be.
I will tell you polosi days are numbered, of course she wil keep her seat in san fransicio but will she keep her speaker posistion?
and nancy polosi is the woman that gave george bush a blank check to be a imperial president, I always believed with out obama nancy polosi is duck waiting to be shot, its only obama who has extended her time limit and after he shakes and wobbles she will be the first person that democrats will sacrifice

harry+nancy= obamas bigbest liability in congress he can`t advocate for middel ground with these two in prominent position

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I will tell you polosi days are numbered, of course she wil keep her seat in san fransicio but will she keep her speaker posistion?

No offense bro, but are you stupid bro? As long as Nancy keeps her seat (which she is as close to losing as the the sky falling down tomorrow) she is Speaker of the House unless you think a majority of 259 Democrats to 176 Republicans is going to end in next congressional elections?

Dumb Somali. Unless Democrats loose the House, which is unlikely as Somalia coming out of civil war tomorrow, Nancy will continue to be Speaker of the House.

[Eaglehawk]

I will tell you polosi days are numbered, of course she wil keep her seat in san fransicio but will she keep her speaker posistion?

No offense bro, but are you stupid bro? As long as Nancy keeps her seat (which she is as close to losing as the the sky falling down tomoor) she is Speake of the House unless you think a majority of 259 Democrats to 176 Republicans is going to end in next congressionable elections?

Dumb Somali. As long as Democrats loose the House, which is unlikely as Somalia coming out of civil war tomorrow Nancy will continue to be Speaker of the House.

no need for insult and school girl tit for tat, just stating my opinion,BRO
even if democrats don`t lose the house she will lose her position as speaker by 2012

Dumb Somali

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And who would replace her in the Democratic House leadership provided Dems still keep the majority (which you agree with)? You must not know anything about American politics to be talking like that!

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I know for a fact that inside democratic party, some democrats are lobbying behind close doors to replace her(blue dog democrats)