Obama Preps for Next Fights
President Obama and his aides “are plunging ahead on a large and expensive agenda that virtually assures 2009 will be marked by intense partisan battles about the size and role of government,” Politico reports.
“For Obama’s next act, the program is the same as he has been planning for months: New Deal-style plans to rescue struggling homeowners and rewrite regulations on the financial markets, plus a budget proposal that lays the groundwork for sweeping health care reform.”
Key change in strategy: “Obama plans to travel more and campaign more in an effort to pressure lawmakers with public support, rather than worrying about whether he can win over Republican votes in Congress.”
:word: You know what? Bush didn’t even get the most votes and he ruled like he had an iron mandate. Republicans pushed through every ridiculous legislation they could without Democratic support. Obama wins a landslide, Democrats expand their rule over Congress in a landslide, and we still offer them the courtesy of listening to their input and what do they do? Vote against it. Fuck ‘em. The people wanted us in charge for a reason. Once Al Franken gets sworn in we have 59, plus Collins, Specter, and Snowe, from deep blue states. They’ll either cross sides and do what their constituents want, or get voted out. It’s our turn now. If we want the Republicans’ help cleaning up their mess, we’ll ask for it.
Obama has continued more than any recent President to reach across the isle in his first 100 days. I don’t ever remembering Bush caring what the other side thought.
Remember Bush was the decider. :lol:
If the Republicans keep rejecting Obama’s attempts for Bi-Partisanship its only going to strengthen the Democrats and make the Republicans look like obstructionist whiners.
On top of the bill being over 1100 pages long, congress was given 6 hours to read only 5 hard-copies in the house. None of the hard copies matched because some parts were still hand-written.
Our government is just ridiculous. The operate like children.
omg Al Franken is a JOKE! You do realize that congress previously had the lowest approval rating of all time right? The only thing that made it go up was becuase Black Jesus won.
We as a country are making no significant improvements. The others are becoming more skilled, becoming more westernized yet work for MUCH less currently. As a business decision I can see why they shift labor overseas. I still hate it as much as the next laid off worker, don’t get me wrong.
We simply cannot compete. And we seem to be dry on innovation. So what do we do? Create all kinds of government jobs? How does that do anything but add to the fundamental economic damage we are already in? We need to innovate or flush, one or the other. IMO
Shhh we need to put ALL our faith in the government becuase they know exactly what to do. Private buisness is BAD, remember? The government should control everything!!! It works wonders for other countries. :bloated:
the problem is that our remote slave labor is drying up due to asian countries building real economies. All empires only survive on slave labor. We are out of slaves, I say we invest in robotic.
congress had low approval because bush would veto anything they would pass of substance and they didnt have enough votes to override it. hence nothing got done. bush had low approval because congress wouldnt do anything he wanted. hence nothing got done.
Factoid from NBC this morning: we are now at $36,000 per person for “bailouts”. Nice. This one bill that apparently no one bothered to read before voting for it is almost 10% of our total debt. Wow. Maybe if the next one is big enough they will take time to read it. I thought the biggest spending package in the history of this planet might be worth reading but, I guess I was wrong. Its just money right? Fire up the presses! Let’s just print $36,000 for every person and the problem will disappear right?
I guess will just have to wait and see. The funny thing is that if this plan does put people to work and brings a quicker end to this recession, I still don’t see any of you saying you were wrong.
Hey I argued to death that invading Iraq was the right thing to do for months. I argued all the liberals on UBRF about it. Now I know I was dead wrong. I wonder if you guys will have the same character if it turns out you were wrong?
^How will we measuer this? One of the complaints was that all of this bailout money is almost just disappearing without any results tracking. We have already spent almost $10 trillion and look where it got us. I hope it works but…