"Bipartisanship is highly overrated"
@angusthethird (515)
United States
February 6, 2009 3:40pm CST
Didn't the new Rep. party chairman say these words?
The GOP, it seems to me, doesn't get it.
It was gridlock, which, in part, got us into this debacle to begin with. Throughout the 2000s, I have consistently seen this party pass law after law favouring business over the working class Joe Sixpack types.
I've seen years of companies getting subsidised for taking their jobs overseas, while Junior's dad can't even afford to get glasses for his 7th grader son who has just started to need them.
These are people who jumped on board when it came to helping banks when the auto industry was about to go kapop.
This is a party who has been forceful about getting its own way. When they were in power, they used their filibuster powers, cloture, etc., to win their perks for their Haliburton buddies, etc. while the average poor-middle class worker's finances go straight to Hell.
Do you think the way they're behaving now--how hardnosed they are being towards our President--is going to help them in 2012?
Talk about making the same mistakes that got them dissed in 2008 and expecting different results? That is, in fact, my definition of madness.
Will another buttkicking in 2010 give them the message? Will they finally get it in '12? '16? '20?
Angus--who can hardly wait until Nov. 2, 2010!
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@lilwonders456 (8214)
• United States
6 Feb 09
Both parties are guilty of it. Enfact Nancy Pelosi was quoted as saying "we won the election so we get to write the bill". Neither party knows what the word means. Neither care about it doing it. They use the word as a weapon to try and preasure and the other side into giving them what they want.All they care about is getting their own way and furthering their own agenda. To heck with the rest of us. So don't blame one party for it....they are both so guilty of it, that it is not even funny.
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@lilwonders456 (8214)
• United States
6 Feb 09
And people wonder why I am done with both party. the both suck. They are just two sides of the same coin.
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@anniepa (27955)
• United States
7 Feb 09
It was Bush who said in 2004 that he'd won a lot of political capital and he was going to spend it. As for Congress, when the Republicans were in the majority they also got to "write the bills", didn't they? At least I haven't heard Pelosi accuse any of the Republicans of being anti-American.
Annie
@lilwonders456 (8214)
• United States
8 Feb 09
I was not picking on any side. I was just stating the facts....Congress (both sides) have been fighting like small children on a play ground fighting over a ball for years. They have shown very little maturity, professionalism or bipartisanship. That goes for every last one of them. Democrats and Republicans. They are ALL guilty. It is wrong from all of them. Two wrongs do not make a right. Just because the republicans behaved badly does not mean that now the democrats get too. BOth sides need to clean up their acts and start actually doing their jobs professionally. Although by now I am loosing hope that they are capable of it. But to tell you the truth if we went to our jobs and acted the way they did we would not have job for long. But politicans....well they get rewarded for it by getting re-elected. I am pretty disgusted by both sides right now.
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@anniepa (27955)
• United States
9 Feb 09
Bipartisanship and gridlock are apparently both in the eyes of the beholders! During the campaign we heard constantly how McCain was always willing to "reach across the aisle" while Obama had voted mostly along party lines. On the other hand, it was this very practice of working with the other party that many conservatives didn't like about McCain. During most of the eight years Bush was in office the Democrats were rendered irrelevant with the justification being that Bush had won a lot of political capital and intended to spend it. Then after Obama won the election and the Democrats extended their majority, all of a sudden partisanship was bad, there should be members of both parties in the cabinet and in other key Administration positions. Obama did his part and appointed several Republicans but that wasn't enough!
Annie
