” Why weren’t we screaming bloody murder every step of the way up until now? “
How many times have I posted “ The Republicans in the House & Senate should have been screaming bloody murder “ in the past 8 months?
The Repubs could have stopped Obamacare if they had fought hard, but they didn’t even bother to put up an argument.
” How the hell did our party ever get to this point? “
I could write a book about THIS.
Suffice it to say that morality and ethics were tossed aside in favor of “ whats in it for me? “ Anyone over the age of 50 and is a real conservative knows this. It began in the late 60’s. It was amplified in the 80’s, and the final nadir was in the early 2000’s. We have become an amoral, unethical society. Maybe one third to one half of the American people are honorable. When I was a youngster, it was easily three fourths honorable.
Causes?
1) Public schools
2) Pop culture
3) No longer a Christian nation
4) Hate like hell to say this 30 years of uninterrupted
prosperity without a real war.
I am not sure what you are getting at here. Obama had a 60-40 vote majority in the senate, 40/435 in the house and it still took him over a year to pass a Health Reform bill with NO RINO support and with high public disapproval and protests. House Liberals had to swallow the Senate bill which they HATE because it will force rates up and has a mandate for them to buy from private profit companies (yes Virgina, there will be uninsured as rates go up.) . Most people hate it and even the liberal base is demoralized over it. There is little more that could have been done here.
Look back at the power the 2008 election gave him in congress and our expectations of what he would do with it. Republicans stood up to him, maybe not out of true principle, but they did.
Boehner on social security reform/cuts has got me upset. Why is this the first thing to cut? Why is he still leader?