The Republicans had no power in Obama’s first year. It’s rewriting history to say otherwise. Most Republicans also signed on to almost all of his appointees. Some even supported the doomed ‘stimulus’. The first sign of opposition was the mortgage bailouts and auto bailouts....and the tea party speech from the floor of the Board of Trade. Things turned quickly when Obamacare was released that summer and showed the massive power grab.
Also, his rewriting of the early Bush years is wrong. The battles started before he was even inauguration with the ‘stolen election’ lunacy, and then the 50/50 Senate power share. The education bill was BUSH’s attempt at bi-partisanship by letting Kennedy remove a lot of the real reform and tack on tons of new federal money. He allowed a good proposal to get watered down in an attempt to show reasonableness. The left even jumped on him on the DAY OF 9/11 because he was in a classroom and was scared to come to Washington, ‘hiding’ in the air.
Repainting other terms as any different than Obama’s is utter bullsh_t.
Wonder what happened to those bipartisan agreements??? And wasn't something called DOMA part of that same bipartisan package???
And ... you’re going to find more of the same in the coming decades because of the basic division in the population of the USA. It is definitely a SPLIT COUNTRY!
Lying under oath to a grand jury will do that.
"Unconstrained political warfare"? Please. I often liken a fight between National Socialists and GOPErs as like a rich guy getting mugged in an alley bitching about the light as he struggles to consult his pocket copy of the Marquess de Queensbury rulebook (which he's never without), meanwhile the mugger's swinging for the cheap seats at the guy's kidneys with a lead pipe. Unconstrained warfare, please. He hasn't even refused to fund Obama's most tyrannical projects, nor introduced legislation to repeal any of The Won's XO's, which is within Congress's power to do.
All you have to be is lovable and stuff - the presidency is not based on knowledge or experience anymore. It’s like a rock star contest - Dancing With The President series or something ....
In 1996 and 1997, Clinton reached Washington's most consequential bipartisan agreements (particularly to reform welfare and balance the budget) since the early 1970s.
BUZZ! Clinton went kicking and screaming and vetoing bills passed by the REPUBLICAN House and REPUBLICAN Senate with no help from Dems. He finally relented under public pressure, but assured us "Minorities, the elderly and (wait for it) women and children will be hit hardest." He now claims those two bills as his only accomplishments.
Obama, from his first weeks, has faced unremitting Republican opposition...
BUZZ! Obama was gifted anything he wanted from a fawning Dem House AND Senate for his first two years. He cruised on Obamacare, The wise Latina, and the tubby dyke with no real opposition.
Ron Brownnose - Journo-list hack.
And Bush did make a good faith effort to be a uniter.
He was rewarded for his efforts by being called names and ridiculed by democrats in the senate and congress.
The truth is that democrats do not want Americans united.
Their entire strategy is based on identity politics - breaking us down into smaller and smaller groups and fomenting resentment and envy to keep groups pitted against each other.
Correction: it will be hard for anyone that resembles Barrack Hussein Obama to ever get the position of POTUS again.
Returning to a 10th amendment respecting federal government can fix this. Leave anything not federal with the states, and only do federal things. A lot of the arguing would clear up.
It is too difficult for the present pee-poor excuse of a man.
Like Obama Ronald Brownstain is a wimp and a whiner whose diapers always need changing.