"By opposing everything, they made the Democrats fight among themselves for cap-and-trade energy legislation and health care reform, drawn out battles that soured the mood of the country." And THIS is what America wants for its leaders? Im confused. Two years ago the American people elected the democrats BECAUSE of their positive plans for the country. When they try to implement those plans however the Republicans intentionally block every effort. Im sorry, isnt this blocking the will of the people? And BECAUSE the Republicans block every attempt by the Democrats to improve conditions these are our best leaders? But then this is the same voters who elected a man who was obviously unqualified for the job, Bush, to a second term. American Voters: When are you going to stop listening to what people say and start paying attention to what they DO?
Whether they can get enough bipartisan support to take any real action on the economy, remains to be seen. With the houses split, bipartisanship has to happen, or nothing will happen.
Obama himself is absolutely ruthlessly partisan.
If they can't get the economy moving, Obama will have zero chance in 2012.
where you been for the last two years. you forget so fast the party of no over 400 bills sitting in the senate, all because of republican partisanship. ccantor allready wants to go after HCR instead of the economy. not even 24 hours and they've already forgotten why they were put back into office JOBS,JOBS,JOBS,
First of all Obama was not looking for bipartisanship. He was looking to have his agenda passed with no questions. Bipartisanship means working together and compromising. Obama wanted no compromise from the repubs he wanted them to do what he wanted. Secondly how can the repubs take ownership of the economy. They have the house and that is all. The dems have the senate and the executive.
The only time they say "YES!" is when they win. They won't compromise. They won't work toward cooperation. It's their way or no way.
A leopard can't change its spots. The Republican Party will be the reason there will be no economic recovery for at least three years (it will take at least an extra year to get us out of the hole, and with no economic plans passed, there won't be a recovery until the Party of No is no longer in control of.)
The ones who would not compromise are the dems. Any idea brought to the table by the repubs in the last two years was summerily dismissed. Now the dems and jacka$$ Obama will have to compromise. But will Obama's supreme arrogance allow compromise?
This is not an auspicious sign for recovery. With House revenue bills erring on the pretense of fiscal austerity, they will starve the recovery and hurt all of us. What the economy needs now is what worked to save us in WW2-- demand-side stimulus (temporary government spending to replace what has been lost from consumers, and keep demand going).. But the stimulus must be sufficient to generate the recovery effect.
For the sake of political correctness, and to cover tax cuts to its donors and corporate friends in the upper tax bracket, the GOP claimed supply-side (tax cuts) was the ticket to prosperity. So, under this excuse, the Bush term launched two tax cuts-- but still did not generate even a modest growth boom. Middle-class incomes remained stagnant.
But Bush supply side policy never went beyond lavish tax cuts for the wealthy. Bush actually made routine and heavy deficit spending his mantra by calling military appropriations a special item, not a regular part of the fiscal budget. Like Reagan, Bush policy caused the national debt to soar.
In the ultimate irony (hypocrisy), the GOP claims to be the party of fiscal prudence and supply-side economics-- yet it is the party which deficit-spent like a drunken sailor in both Reagan and Bush terms.
In an even greater paradox, GOP DEregulation of Wall Street led to a severe crash that is remedied by only demand-side stimulus-- ie. money must be spent to counter the loss of consumer demand from the private sector, simply to recover more normal economic activity and recovery.
(http://zfacts.com/p/318.html for a fascinating tutorial by an economics Ph.D. on basic fiscal budget concepts, deficits and debt, and the record of presidents on fiscal responsibility).
"Any idea brought to the table by the repubs in the last two years was summerily dismissed."
For good reasons. President Obama should have remembered that he won and let the republicans really filibuster. Instead, he weakened the health care bill to gain republican support that he ended up not getting. He should have pushed the public option. If there is something to blame him for, it's not have gone far enough.
This is going to be a long unproductive two years. The necons are going to work very hard to uutsource as many jobs as they can. A lot of angry people are going to be even angrier when the funds to create jobs get exported to save the rich a bundle. I think that in the next two lears the necons will be laughing all the way to the bank.
What a fantastic night to be an American. This is a slap in the face to the left wing extremism of Obama and Pelosi that spit in the face of the majority of Americans that opposed their extremist policies. This is a repudiation of the nutjob community organizer thats never held a real job we mistakenly elected president two years ago. Obama is nothing more than a left wing kook that thinks he's better than everyone else. Shoving his healthcare bill down our throats that over 70% of America opposed, rushing to defend a racist havard professor without having the facts, calling fellow Americans that disagree with him "enemies."
Enjoy the next two years Mr. President, you're next.
The party of NO ideas. The party of NO leaders. The party of NO clear platform.
The party that will now do nothing meaningful other that try to put the country into Republican, I mean Reverse.
They'll make a big deal about trying to undo the healthcare reform. And the GOP has ZERO chance of doing that. They don't have enough votes in the Senate and the President would most certainly veto any attempt that did pass. But by gosh you can take it to the bank that the GOP is going to waste a huge amount of the country's precious time and resources trying to undo the healthcare reform. And then what? If it were to succeed we go back to the system that was on a trajectory to fail? Of course that doesn't matter to the GOP. What matters is that THEY would succeed doing this. And the country would lose big time. And next on the agenda would be some type of war. Yes, with the GOP you always have to have some type of war going on. Makes it easy to steal lots of money. Got to feed all those special-interest war companies. Middle-class families, suck it up, you'll get a fifty dollar tax break and a 30,000 dollar war bill. Just got to love those Republicans.
Just saw Boehner's speech tonight. What a cry baby. The fellow actually believes he is doing something historic with no details as tohow to get there. He is against Washington, but of course has been part of Washington Politics for 20 years.
And threatening the President that he is going to roll him.....LOL. Veto pen anyone?
Just imagine how many more Republican seats would have been picked up and the Senate won outright, if the idiotic Tea Party movement had not been staged. With the economy stagnant, there is no excuse for such a lackluster performance by the Republicans. They could have had veto proof majorities.
The posting of advertisements, profanity, or personal attacks is prohibited. By using this Web site you agree to accept our Terms of Service. Click here to read the Rules of Engagement.
Reply to Comment The posting of advertisements, profanity, or personal attacks is prohibited. By using this Web site you agree to accept our Terms of Service. Click here to read the Rules of Engagement.
But then this is the same voters who elected a man who was obviously unqualified for the job, Bush, to a second term.
American Voters: When are you going to stop listening to what people say and start paying attention to what they DO?
Lowered Taxes
Absolve the Deficit
The American Voters now need a Plan from the GOP and a time table for delivery.
Obama himself is absolutely ruthlessly partisan.
If they can't get the economy moving, Obama will have zero chance in 2012.
A leopard can't change its spots. The Republican Party will be the reason there will be no economic recovery for at least three years (it will take at least an extra year to get us out of the hole, and with no economic plans passed, there won't be a recovery until the Party of No is no longer in control of.)
They are now on the hook too, so they understand they can't stand around and do nothing any more.
This is not an auspicious sign for recovery. With House revenue bills erring on the pretense of fiscal austerity, they will starve the recovery and hurt all of us. What the economy needs now is what worked to save us in WW2-- demand-side stimulus (temporary government spending to replace what has been lost from consumers, and keep demand going).. But the stimulus must be sufficient to generate the recovery effect.
For the sake of political correctness, and to cover tax cuts to its donors and corporate friends in the upper tax bracket, the GOP claimed supply-side (tax cuts) was the ticket to prosperity. So, under this excuse, the Bush term launched two tax cuts-- but still did not generate even a modest growth boom. Middle-class incomes remained stagnant.
But Bush supply side policy never went beyond lavish tax cuts for the wealthy. Bush actually made routine and heavy deficit spending his mantra by calling military appropriations a special item, not a regular part of the fiscal budget. Like Reagan, Bush policy caused the national debt to soar.
In the ultimate irony (hypocrisy), the GOP claims to be the party of fiscal prudence and supply-side economics-- yet it is the party which deficit-spent like a drunken sailor in both Reagan and Bush terms.
In an even greater paradox, GOP DEregulation of Wall Street led to a severe crash that is remedied by only demand-side stimulus-- ie. money must be spent to counter the loss of consumer demand from the private sector, simply to recover more normal economic activity and recovery.
(http://zfacts.com/p/318.html for a fascinating tutorial by an economics Ph.D. on basic fiscal budget concepts, deficits and debt, and the record of presidents on fiscal responsibility).
For good reasons. President Obama should have remembered that he won and let the republicans really filibuster. Instead, he weakened the health care bill to gain republican support that he ended up not getting. He should have pushed the public option. If there is something to blame him for, it's not have gone far enough.
Enjoy the next two years Mr. President, you're next.
The party of NO ideas.
The party of NO leaders.
The party of NO clear platform.
The party that will now do nothing meaningful other that try to put the country into Republican, I mean Reverse.
They'll make a big deal about trying to undo the healthcare reform. And the GOP has ZERO chance of doing that. They don't have enough votes in the Senate and the President would most certainly veto any attempt that did pass. But by gosh you can take it to the bank that the GOP is going to waste a huge amount of the country's precious time and resources trying to undo the healthcare reform. And then what? If it were to succeed we go back to the system that was on a trajectory to fail? Of course that doesn't matter to the GOP. What matters is that THEY would succeed doing this. And the country would lose big time. And next on the agenda would be some type of war. Yes, with the GOP you always have to have some type of war going on. Makes it easy to steal lots of money. Got to feed all those special-interest war companies. Middle-class families, suck it up, you'll get a fifty dollar tax break and a 30,000 dollar war bill. Just got to love those Republicans.
.
And threatening the President that he is going to roll him.....LOL. Veto pen anyone?