Children wail 'but you promised' when their expectations can't be met due to changing or unforeseen circumstances. The reality based adult meets the challenge and works toward achieving the outcome intended. President Bush has to work with the man/woman power the voters have given him. It has been explained numerous times on this board that a SUPER majority is needed to accomplish meaningful legislation because of the unremitting opposition from the RAT party. Sorry, but that is the grown up political reality.
We have done that, only to have the bar moved, again and again. The "reality based adult" also looks at the evidence right before their eyes and the historical behavior patterns of our entrenched oligarchy/political class. They then apply a little basic logic, connect the dots and form an opinion or hypothesis which conforms to the evidence at hand.
Those who are hopelessly mired in partisan denial, however, stubbornly insist on selectively acknowleging which "facts" they use to support their arguments. For example, you said:
"It has been explained numerous times on this board that a SUPER majority is needed to accomplish meaningful legislation because of the unremitting opposition from the RAT party. Sorry, but that is the grown up political reality."
This is an incomplete statement that "explains" nothing; it merely "asserts". You left out some critical facts, namely that the "unremitting opposition from the RAT party" only succeeds due to the complicity of the Repub majority through their refusal to exercise the Constitutional options at their disposal and change the rules.
The truth is, more and more "reality based adults" are connecting the dots and concluding that we are being "gamed" by our so-called leaders, of both parties. The facts of their words versus their actual deeds support this hypothesis far better than yours. The problem is that the implications of this are so frightening and such a threat to most people's world-view that they quite naturally seek refuge in denial and attacking the messengers.