One question: How's that CHANGE working out for you???
If you still support this guy, then you MUST love the huge deficits, the Health Care "reform" that is about to be rammed down our throats, how he has kept his campaign promises to end partisanship fighting and have all reforms aired publically. I guess you don’t mind that your children and generations of children will be burdened with trying to pay for these huge deficits and our National debt. WAY TO GO DEMOCRATS!!!
Of course the Republicans have not helped at all, but still.
Huge Deficits - in 2001 the CBO projected that we would be running an 800 billion dollar surplus in 2009-2012... what happened? The cowboy came to town and instituted insane tax cuts and put 2 wars on the nation's credit card, all while turning a blind eye to the deregulated criminal financial markets. The over 80% of the current defecit projections come from the bush tax cuts, the unpaid for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the recession itself. The stimulus, while large, actually will be bringing the deficit down. The stimulus and other Obama initiatives account for around 10% of the defecit.
Health Care - Im not a big fan of the Health Care bill, I would prefer bigger changes. But we'll take what we can get. Since you obviously aren't paying attention, the Health Care bill passed the House, and it passed the Senate with 60 votes, a supermajority. That's not ramming it through. But obviously you listen to too much media. In fact, those terrible tax cuts that bankrupted the country that Bush passed... those were rammed through.
Bi-Partisanship - Obama has included plenty of Republican ideas in legislation. The problem is republicans don't think anything is bipartisan unless it's a republican bill. Dems are the majority, bills that are bi partisan are going to be 60-40 at best. The real problem with bi-partisanship, is that republicans arent interested in the least. Rather then being a minority that works to get their ideas included, the prefer being an idealogue minority...bringing government to a halt. Obviously, conservatives love this. They would rather see nothing done at all... on anything...
Reforms aired publicly - I watch C-span. Were there some closed door meetings and old washington politics, yes unfortunately there were. But the health care debate has been more open then any major public policy issue i've ever seen.
Republicans are as much at fault for the deficit as Democrats. Anyone who thinks otherwise is an ideologue and being intellectually dishonest. You really think a 200 billion dollar surplus can turn into a 1.3 trillian dollar deficit in 9 years, but it's the guys who were in charge in year 9 who are at fault?
I took your guy 8 years to destroy the economy. Lets give our guy 8 years and talk about it then.
