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“Given it has become such a distraction, we’re not going to ask Congress to pass the 529 provision.”
Secondary story linked within the 1st article, allowing a computer to be purchased with 529 monies; which currently is not allowed................duh? Maybe some of the emails to the D.C. crowd has helped turn on some brain cells.
Yes, I did, and also found explanatory detail from other sources. Conceptually, it wasn't a bad idea, I thought. Politically, it was stillborn, and predictably so. As I've noted before: I voted for a politician, and I got a lawyer. Lincoln was good at both, Mr. Obama certainly is not.
What's the point of introducing a fairly complex proposal when it's guaranteed that the opposition will mis-portray it, you have absolutely no clout within what's left of your own party, and the average citizen either has no clue or will believe whatever 30-second headline Fox / Murdoch / WSJ will use to ridicule it?
Has Mr. Obama any concept of keeping powder dry for a challenge where there's maybe a faint hope of success?
>> What's the point of introducing a fairly complex proposal when it's guaranteed that the opposition will mis-portray it, you have absolutely no clout within what's left of your own party, and the average citizen either has no clue or will believe whatever 30-second headline Fox / Murdoch / WSJ will use to ridicule it?
Well, that is the question, isn't it. Do you have any thoughts on this? How to do this, how to make it a 'The point is ....' Is it all a matter of marketing / countermarketing? Meaning that is the way of the low-information future. I am perhaps not quite so cynical, but have no good thoughts and am not being (only) argumentative. Serious questions. All sides strive to elect a nonhatable prez?
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It's a wonder they have any feet left to shoot themselves in.
I do know it is more fun just to piss, though.
What's the point of introducing a fairly complex proposal when it's guaranteed that the opposition will mis-portray it, you have absolutely no clout within what's left of your own party, and the average citizen either has no clue or will believe whatever 30-second headline Fox / Murdoch / WSJ will use to ridicule it?
Has Mr. Obama any concept of keeping powder dry for a challenge where there's maybe a faint hope of success?
Well, that is the question, isn't it. Do you have any thoughts on this? How to do this, how to make it a 'The point is ....' Is it all a matter of marketing / countermarketing? Meaning that is the way of the low-information future. I am perhaps not quite so cynical, but have no good thoughts and am not being (only) argumentative. Serious questions. All sides strive to elect a nonhatable prez?