Posted on 07/29/2011 8:00:53 AM PDT by Andrewksu
Over the course of history, Congress and the White House have seen highs and lows. Times that can be remembered with pride and other times when politicians failed to meet the American people’s expectations. Right now, we are at a very, very low point—the worst I’ve seen since I moved to Washington in September 1972. Never in my memory have both parties and both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue appeared as dysfunctional as they do today. The stakes are so high and the performance is so utterly disappointing. The goals of most of the debt-ceiling proposals being debated are so modest that victory would really be a defeat in terms of what needs to be done.
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You forgot the barf alert.
You forgot the barf alert.
-Barack Obama
Cooks right about one thing. There will be huge turnovers in DC in the coming elections. He just doesn’t mention what that turnover
will look like. I can help him. Can u say Tea Party?
If the parties were this dysfunctional for the past 50 years, we might still live in a free country. Alas, much has been accomplished.
- Charlie Cook on Sarah Palin.
Since he showcased that stellar bit of political analysis, I don't give a rats azz what Cook thinks about anything.
The goals of most of the debt-ceiling proposals being debated are so modest that victory would really be a defeat in terms of what needs to be done.”
Hey, Charlie, where were you when the “stimulus package” was sailing through?
I don’t recall his protests, then.
What a dumb a*&^*.
Why is he doing politics? After all, he knows what God intends. /s
Never in my memory have both parties and both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue appeared as dysfunctional
There should be no barf alert. The article is spot on.
And to use my analogy, we are a family on the edge of financial collapse and mom and dad are “solving” the problem by arguing over whether to pare the Netflix account from 3 movies at a time to one, vs two at a time.
They are a joke. It is like a bad movie where the characters don’t act like real people, except these are “real” people
But then, do they have a choice? There is no way to get political approval from the electorate to do the hard things that must be done to resolve this. Greece is a picnic compared to what we will see here, and it really doesn’t matter WHAT congress does.
The time for a “relatively painless” solution passed years ago. That is why I warned my republican friends in 2008 that they really may not want their guy to win the presidency, only to take the blame for the biggest national collapse in the history of mankind.
Good analogy. The argument should be over beans and rice for dinner or rice and beans.
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