ron paul=awesome/kickass?

[Dr. Love]

You mean like tax cuts?

Ask Obama how well the Repuke congress helped him "move the ball" on that one....

I seem to recall Senate Republicans and President Obama working together to push House Republicans into line on that recently...

[Dr. Love]

I'll say this ... watching the republican debate ... god Ron Paul is a horrible speaker most of the time.

[LoungeMachine]

I seem to recall Senate Republicans and President Obama working together to push House Republicans into line on that recently...

"working together" ?

Hardly



File it under "calling their bluff" and "running for cover"

[Nitro Express]

I read the article, but I think this can be addressed 1 of 2 ways:

1. Amend the rules
2. When a party threatens to shut down government ... call the bluff. Let them make endless quorum calls. The people aren't dumb ... when they see it happening, they will express their anger over it.

How about we fire all the mother fuckers. One thing that is killing the economy is businesses can't make a five year plan because they have no idea what their taxes are gong to be for that period thank's to the jackass politicians not able to come up with a budget. So you hold off on hiring.

Also, what has ruined the political system is allowing corporations to donate to a campaign. It should only individual people who can donate and then set a cap on the amount to keep the ones with deep pockets from taking over the system.

[Nitro Express]

I think Mitt will get the nomination and win. I'm waiting to see how the election goes but seriously, if it doesn't turn this election nothing is going to get fixed. The politicians will do what they can to rally the economy in 2012 because they want to get re-elected and then all hell breaks loose in 2013. Then they will re arrange the chairs on the Titanic some more while she sinks. People are already leaving the US. Especially retired people. The system has been going down hill the last 40 years and now they are taking away basic constitutional rights and coming for the internet next. If this keeps up there isn't going to be anything here worth staying here for.

[knuckleboner]

I think we deserve more than a modicum of progress... and we would have gotten more than a modicum if he'd stood up for what he believed in instead of engaging in one-sided compromise.

not true.

it was hard enough getting health care reform through the democratic house. and for everyone calling it socialism, the fact is liberals hated that reform. but it could not have passed as anything else. so it's more incremental changes than anything.

[Dr. Love]

You don't think we deserve more than a modicum, or incremental change? You don't think Obama sat on his thumb and wasted time while it was torn apart across the nation rather than stand up and fight and twist arms and sell it to the people?

I want something better. I believe we deserve something better than what Obama is selling.

[LoungeMachine]

I want something better. I believe we deserve something better than what Obama is selling.

While you focus on the "figurehead" I focus my ire and disdain on the REAL problem......

Lobbyists, Campaign Finance Reform, and a Bribed Congress that doesn't give a rat's ass what's good for the country....



We don't butter their bread.

[Dr. Love]

I focus on the most powerful man in the country (if not the world), with the ability to fight on my behalf against those interests, educate the people and take to task a complicit congress to get real "change I can believe in".

I focus on him to AT LEAST TRY

[LoungeMachine]

I focus on the most powerful man in the country (if not the world),

Speaker of the House?

Think about it.

[Nickdfresh]

I think we deserve more than a modicum of progress... and we would have gotten more than a modicum if he'd stood up for what he believed in instead of engaging in one-sided compromise.

Oh please, you think he had a choice? I just heard that 2011 was the least productive year in the history of congre$$, and that's saying a lot!!

[Dr. Love]

definitely not ... he can't even control his own caucus

Maybe the most powerful person is any one of 100 individuals in the senate... one of them decides something shouldn't get done ... it doesn't happen.

[Nickdfresh]

You don't think we deserve more than a modicum, or incremental change? You don't think Obama sat on his thumb and wasted time while it was torn apart across the nation rather than stand up and fight and twist arms and sell it to the people?

I want something better. I believe we deserve something better than what Obama is selling.

So you want to vote for a guy that gets wet over the thought of unrestrained Robber-baron capitalism and would have led us into a depression if he had won in 08?

[LoungeMachine]

Lest we forget.....

President Romney would have let the US Auto Industry DIE.......

[Dr. Love]

Oh please, you think he had a choice? I just heard that 2011 was the least productive year in the history of congre$$, and that's saying a lot!!

I expected him to do more than he did to try, instead of constantly trying to rise above the fray and constantly try to work with people whose stated goal was to see him be a 1 term president. Do you guys not think he should have done more than he did?