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Night-Gaunt49 said, 4 months ago
We’ll see how “Progressive” he will really be. He has been acting mostly like a militant Regressive his first term.
Dycel
said, 4 months ago
It’s going to be an interesting next 4 years.
ConserveGov said, 4 months ago
Luckily America voted for a Republican Congress to stop him.
Robert Landers said, 4 months ago
@ConserveGov
In actuality, (and once again) you are wrong. Although some 1 million more Americans throughout this country voted for Democratic Congress People instead of Republicans in the House of Representatives, due to the gerrymandering of congressional districts the Republicans held on to their majority in the House of Representatives. Although that majority did manage to lessen somewhat.
The Senate however, is a much truer representation of just what the American voter thought of the Republican Party in general, and the ultra conservative (just say “NO!” to everything the federal government does) Tea Party types in particular. It is almost impossible to gerrymander an entire state, so this is a far more representative governing group that the House of Representatives is.
Many Republican pundits (especially of FOX) had predicted that the Republicans were originally going to take over the Senate as well. However, the American people had other ideas, and the Republicans actually lost seats in that body.
Further, if the Republicans remain just a party of “no” under all circumstances, they will lose it all in 2014. I have noticed that the new Congress seems far more willing already to compromise. Or at least the Republican leadership does at any rate. The witness to this is their attempt to pass legislation that would raise the National Debt limit as even they now know that the credit of the US is at stake here. Heck, I am quite happy with their also wanting to even forgo their own pay if they can not reach a more equitable and permanent solution to the debt problem in some three months after the bill is signed into law.
Now, I wait to see how the entire Congress will vote on this most important legislation. While I am far from certain that sanity on this issue will prevail, I am at least hopeful at any rate!!
Doughfoot said, 4 months ago
@ConserveGov
Actually, the majority of Americans voted to send Democrats to the House of Representatives. But GOP state houses and Gerry Mander prevented the ouster of the the GOP house of representatives. This is why the GOPpies are glad to chant that America is a republic not a democracy. In a democracy they would have lost their control of the house. So, stictly speaking, America (i.e. the people) did not elect a Republican congress.
edinbaltimore said, 4 months ago
Love the “projections”. Thanks for reminding us how badly Shrub screwed us over. If we’re lucky at all, the House will come to its senses and realize how much they have hindered our recovery. BTW: passing a bill telling the Senate to cut its pay, even though they also said they’d cut theirs, is unconstitutional, as that document says EACH house sets its own rules. If they’d have passed it as a resolution, that would be different. Political gimmickry!
Respectful Troll said, 4 months ago
The R’s were as rude to Mr. Obama in 2009 as the D’s under Pelosi were to the Repubs. Despite Howgozit’s suggestion yesterday I was wrong to say Mr. Obama had sought bipartisanship and had offered concessions that was part of the reason so few independents and even D’s came out in 2010. Now, Mr. Obama is in his last term and therefore has nothing to lose, even though we, the people, have a lot if these two parties don’t become Americans instead of D’s and R’s. It is my opinion that Mr.Obama’s new energy will energize D’s and Independents who agree with him in 2014, but will equally energize R’s and independents who find his agenda threatening. We can be certain that billions will be spent in newspapers, tv stations, and computer websites by "corporate “People” who will invest in the candidate who most represents their agendas.
It won’t be boring. Painful, but not boring.
Respectfully,
C.
Rockngolfer said, 4 months ago
The apologies never happened.
If you don’t believe Snopes and Politifact and Askdotcom how about CNN?
http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/23/politics/fact-check-apology-tour/index.html
Nantucket19 said, 4 months ago
@Rockngolfer
Thanks for the link. I especially liked the excerpt below – Romney and the Repubs in general have picked out pieces and ignore what doesn’t fit their narative – even if it is in the next sentence.
During an address in Strasbourg, France, in April 2009, Obama did utter words Romney referenced in the debate.
In that speech, Obama said, “there have been times where America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive.”
But in the very next sentence, Obama called out the Europeans for an “anti-Americanism that is at once casual but can also be insidious. Instead of recognizing the good that America so often does in the world, there have been times where Europeans choose to blame America for much of what’s bad.”
He then goes on to talk about forging “common solutions to our common problems.”
The Wolf In Your Midst said, 4 months ago
@ConserveGov
America also re-elected him, which doesn’t make much sense if we wanted to stop him.
TheTrustedMechanic said, 4 months ago
@Respectful Troll
I do not think you were wrong. President Obama did seek bipartisan cooperation. He had his agenda of things he wanted to get done but he also tried to get republican input. Why else do you think the PPACA wasn’t a single payer system instead of more corporate welfare like the republicans wanted way back in the ’90’s? And when he came to the table already meeting the republicans previously express demands how is that not trying to seek bipartisanship? The only two reasons why bipartisanship hasn’t been reached is that
1) the republicans will do NOTHING if doing something will make the president look good.
2) the republicans’ idea of compromise and bipartisanship is doing things their way and only their way..
So when you have one half of one house of Congress that will never agree with you no matter how much you meet their demands and how many of their policies you embrace, you will NEVER reach bipartisanship.
Rockngolfer said, 4 months ago
@Nantucket19
When people you know send all of those chain emails, and you write back and say 95% of those emails are false, and give a citation, then over time you don’t get those emails anymore.
corzak said, 4 months ago
These people . . . with their “Luckily America voted for a Republican Congress” . . . is amazing, especially when the Republican Party itself boasts of its gerrymandering success in winning the House, despite losing the vote:
“Republicans enjoy a 33-seat margin in the U.S. House seated yesterday in the 113th Congress, having endured Democratic successes atop the ticket and over one million more votes cast for Democratic House candidates than Republicans.”
REDMAP 2012 Summary Report
tygrkhat40 said, 4 months ago
All politicians are as useful as a screen door on a submarine.
onguard said, 4 months ago
@tygrkhat40
Or a awning on jetliner .