Re: my Top 10 reasons to not vote Obama (LONG)
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 9:21 am
It is true the "new" republicans did stonewall on tax hikes but that is what they were tasked to do when they were elected. But they presented and passed numerous bills that would have made nice inroads into helping the economy but Reid won't even take those bills up and then the dems claim that they are being blocked. Specter once said "compromise is the art of government". Well it may have been a hundred years ago but not today. Ever since Woodrow and the progressive (liberal) movement Compromise became a move to the left and almost never to the right (see my next post for explanation). Bush I found out the hard way when he raised taxes because the Dems promised him cuts in other places. Of course the cuts never came and then the "no new taxes" statement came back to cost him the election. Funny thing was it was the dems that played the statement over and over to discredit Bush.CougarClaw wrote:The GOP refused to accept a single tax increase. That was the primary stonewall. They refused to compromise because that's what we sent them there to do. And it worked, to the detriment of all progress. Oh, and of the 4 years of house control and 4 years of Senate control, the democrats have controlled 6 of those 8 years. And yet the democrats have posterized the GOP for their inability to compromise and are to blame (obama's favorite word!) for inaction the last four years. But you look at that 6/8 figure and it's really hard to accept.imuakahuku wrote: What you are missing is that the Republicans are being portrayed as stonewalling but that is not true. they have presented numerous deals etc but the Dems will not bend. The Senate will not even take up a republican bill when it is passed by the House even with the support of the dems in the House. This whole mess falls on the dems in congress and the white house. They will not yield, they had all the power for two years and instead of addressing the real issues they rammed Obamacare and other such legislation through. They could have passed anything so why no jobs bills? Why no budget? Why are we still having all the issues? Because the agenda came first and the country second (if that).
I don't disagree with you. The senate in particular has acted atrociously by preventing all riders and any minority input into legislation. As a backlash, GOP has has to run more filibusters than virtually any congress in history. It's their only way to provide input. I do think the democrats have the lion share of the blame. But the GOP is not without blame either.