Posted on 08/25/2011 11:47:47 AM PDT by tablechomper
I just started as a student in a college course called American Government. The textbook is extremely slanted and this version was obviously updated after the mid-term elections in order to rouse up the young vote for Obama in 2012. The target audience of this textbook is 18-25 years-olds (the main age bracket of college students who would be taking an introductory/transfer political course), and for many of them this may be their first exposure to current events in politics. The following excerpt is one example of how the textbook portrays the unappreciative, angry tea party and the extremely productive President Obama, simply trying to serve the people.
This is literally from the very first chapter that we were assigned to read:
"Legislative Action
By the tone of the angry protests at Tea Party rallies and by the plummeting approval ratings for the president and Congress, you would hardly know that the first two years of the Obama administration were some of the most productive in recent legislative history.
The 111th Congress was the most prolific of any Congress since the Great Society Programs were enacted by the 89th Congress in 1965-66. And the president's winning record for passing legislation on which he had a clearly stated position was at a historic high, 96.7 percent. "In compiling [this record], Obama toppled a forty-four-year-old record held by Lyndon B. Johnson by a margin of 3.6 percentage points and bested the tallies of every president since Congressional Quarterly [the journal that chronicles Congressional activity] began its voting studies in 1953."
And the legislation itself was landmark: from passing a $787 billion stimulus bill designed to jump-start the economy to revamping the nation's health-care system to passing the most sweeping regulatory reform since the New Deal. The president compiled this record largely by holding together the members of his own party in Congress.
How did it happen? Congressional scholar, Norman Ornstein, reflects, "Democrats, perhaps recalling the disasters of 1994, when they failed to unite behind Bill Clinton's agenda in the face of uniform GOP opposition, came together. Obama's smoother beginning and stronger bonds with congressional leaders also helped."
In the end, such productivity went largely unappreciated. A public that just two years earlier yearned for an end to gridlock rewarded the president and his party with significant electoral losses in 2010, sending the message that they believed the 111th Congress had done too much and had tried to make the federal government too big."
What? You have GOT to be kidding. This is Orwellian revisionism at its creepiest. Did you stand up to this and call it for what it is?
What Democrat indoctrination center are you and your parents supporting with your hard-earned dollars? Such propaganda would make Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez green with envy.
You might offer to analyze the word "productive". Productive of what?
Who’s the publishing house and author(s)?
You should engage your instructor in identifying precisely WHAT was passed. The majority of which is destructive to the U.S. and many have fallen to judicial review. Further, you can point out the FDRs great experiment created an entitlement class that is bankrupting our economy and has vaulted big government into the largest in American history.
Since you just signed up today perhaps you aren’t aware that you should site the publisher so we can fact check.
We’re still trying to recover from the Great Society disaster. Liberals equate action and intentions with results, and always have. As long as you think you’ve got a good idea and are implementing it, then the nation has in fact been improved. It does not matter whether the idea is actually a good one, is Constitutional, or achieves the desired ends. This is the reason that states dominated by the left, like my own California, pass around 1,000 new laws per year. They have to be legislating all the time; they are pemanently motivated by the legislative ‘do something’ impulse.
Who authored the book?
Who published it?
Can you make Rush, Hannity and Levin aware of this?
This is what turns kids heads to mush, and they take tests answering the Sociaistic way for an “A”.
These a-holes need to have a light aimed on their lies.
Grotesque. Who are the authors, Cloward and Piven?
They are counting the lame duck session after the election where they passed a ton of stuff. However, we certainly didn’t like what we being passed that is for sure.
You signed up today to post this?
IBTZ.
Sounds more like your personal views. Let’s see the book.
Give the Devil his due. Satan had a productive time of it. His time is short, we will see to that.
Oh, how quaint.
Another troll.
Goodbye.
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