politicians are motivated by personal gain, not idealsAnonymous wrote:Every party that looses intends to win the next one. So in 2000 the democrats were already thinking of 2004 after Gore lost.
Wrong. if so, why did Democrats bend over and do every single thing the Bush administration wanted following September 11?
Anonymous wrote:So if Romney is elected, do you expect him to compromise with the Democrats? Or ram through his insane economic plan?
Every party that looses intends to win the next one. So in 2000 the democrats were already thinking of 2004 after Gore lost.
obama cannot foster relationships with them. He is not white enoughAnonymous wrote:The buck stops at the top. Obama has fostered no relationships with republicans on the hill. He thinks he is above it all.
Anonymous wrote:the fact that the GOP said from the very beginning that they would make sure that Obama was a one-term president. To me, that says, that they had no intention of working with him hing isfrom the start. So, how much do you think was going to get accomplished w/a House & Senate majority? It's an accomplishment that Obama got anything done.
Obama had a 100% liberal rating as a senator... He said we won and get in the back of the bus. Then he rammed thru Obamacare with hyper partisan reconciliation. He got treated the same way he treats others and he should have no problem with that.
Anonymous wrote:With unfettered discretion for TWO YEARS (i.e., Obama plus majority democrats in the house and senate), Obama should have gotten a hell of a lot done.
Unfettered discretion! He could have passed anything!
Rather than just vacationing and pointing fingers, which he is still doing 4 years into it.