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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsObama wins in Nov. with a Republican Congress....
after 8 years of obstruction the US economy should be pretty much destroyed.
Obama had a once in a century chance to do something huge, he blew it.
Yes, of course the Republicans obstructed. Obama should have been pounding on the table from day one how these clowns were blocking him from doing the things he was elected to do.
Now the only hope of staving off the Republican crazies from completely taking over the US gov't is to vote for "Mr. Bipartisan at any cost"....
Heads you win, tails I lose.....
kentuck
(111,089 posts)A lot of truth.
We are not going to grow ourselves out of this mess, under the present parameters. We have a president that will not ask for sacrifice from anyone and tends to believe that taxcuts are the best way to get our economy moving. His failure to address the debt and the deficit has permitted the Republicans to dismantle government at all levels, and was the major reason Scott Walker won in Wisconsin last night.
vi5
(13,305 posts)...but you hit the nail right on the head. Especially since anyone with half a brain knew what the Republicans would do and how they would handle things. We've all seen this movie and know how it ends.
But the Democrats in charge of "our side" thought they could get different results from the same actions. I think someone once coined a term for that type of thinking.
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emulatorloo
(44,120 posts)zbdent
(35,392 posts)about how their newly-found obstruction method, which would apply even when there would be 100 Dems in the Senate, and 435 Dems in the House, is constitutional and is keeping with "what the people demand" ...
pnwmom
(108,977 posts)He did as well as anyone could with a Congress that was more obstructionist than any in history -- just count the number of filibusters.
He didn't have a 60 vote majority, ever, because Joe Lieberman, Independent, was supposed to be one of the votes, and he delighted in voting against the Dems, especially after he changed parties. And then Ted Kennedy died and Scott Brown got elected and we weren't even close.
Comrade_McKenzie
(2,526 posts)Then we'll all go down together. This is not a matter of difference of opinions. They are enemies, deliberately murdering people with their policies.