My co worker blames the 2006 democratic controlled congress for

[B Calm]

this economic downturn.

Funny a couple years ago they were saying that they were the do nothing congress. Now the democrats caused all this mess and the republicans had nothing to do with it. Democrats had a very slim majority and I didn't see the republicans working with them to get anything passed.

Try explaining to them that republicans controlled congress 12 out of the last 14 years and I guarantee you'll get nothing but a blank stare. Hell there for quite a few years didn't the republicans control all three branches of government?

[Puzzler]

1. Ask your co-worker...

... "What specific bills/actions did the Democratic congress (since 2006) successfully pass into law that caused this current mess?"


"Successfully" means: get through the senate, and not get vetoed by Bush.

[B Calm]

11. I did. No reply He's just like most working class republicans, they're

clueless to politics and love being pawns for the wealthy.
He's a real hoot when he talks about democrats being socialists! He has no idea what the word socialist even means, he just knows its a bad word.

[BlooInBloo]

2. That's nice.

[Journeyman]

3. Some people live without sense of history, with compartmentalized minds that permit. . .

them to hold obtuse opinions formed from incomplete evidence, all for the purpose of not disturbing their preconceived notions. It helps them to make sense of a complex world they're seemingly incapable of understanding. They're more to be pitied than despised, hard as it is to take them with any serious concern. But of course, we must do our best to educate (so we're told -- and even tell ourselves -- to give some hope in the face of the irrational), and we even try on occasion, though it seems akin to teaching bricks to think.

[Fire1]

4. True, but they have an answer for everything. I've found

the best way to deal with that argument is not to refute it, but concede that there was blame on both sides of the aisle.

[w4rma]

5. Bad idea, unless you specifically blame the DLC-types on our side of the isle for working with the

corporatists in control of the Republican Party.

[Fire1]

7. Exactly.

[Bicoastal]

6. Let me guess--President Bush wasn't responsible at all, but President Obama is?

Funny how the blame can always be traced to the branch of government your party isn't in charge of.

[bunkerbuster1]

8. Of course he does. The meme goes like this:

"Barney Fag and Chris Dodd forced banks to give loans to shiftless niggers."

Or some variant.

Tell him to blow a goat.

[Fire1]

9. "blow a goat." That's funny! lol!

:spray:

[Turbineguy]

10. The Head Wingnut

at work thinks so too.

He lives in fear Obama will take his job away.

These people need to understand what Freedom is.