The election is over. Why are the Dems still playing politics?

[swampy]

How can the Republicans be "obstructionists"? The DEMs don't need their vote. Seems that if it fails, the DEMS want to be able to share the blame. The Repubs aren't buying into that because they don't like all the pork.

Where was the "non partisan" mantra when the Dems in the House wrote the bill with NO opposition input? It's their bill to live or die by.

[cbelt3]

Jeezus... In case you guys forgot, the game is ALL about politics. What, you thought that once the election is over they just got to their little offices and worked hard as public servants without ever arguing, jockeying for position, and making sure they get re-elected and the guys in the other party don't ?

Man, I want some of what you're ingesting !

[Blurb]

swampy wrote:
How can the Republicans be "obstructionists"?

What do you call what Lindsey Graham's been doing for the past week or so? He's not been promoting bipartisianship, to say the very least. He's certainly succeeded in making himself look like a buffoon.

[Mac-A-Matic]

Prior to the election and inauguration, many of the liberals and democrats here seemed to be of a position that things were going to change once Obama took over and the democrats ruled Congress. Now that Congress is heavy with Democrats to the point that they don't need republican support to pass legislation, they're back to politics as usual?

What happened to "change"?

Looks to me that it's "the same."

[RgrF]

swampy wrote:
How can the Republicans be "obstructionists"? The DEMs don't need their vote. Seems that if it fails, the DEMS want to be able to share the blame. The Repubs aren't buying into that because they don't like all the pork.

Where was the "non partisan" mantra when the Dems in the House wrote the bill with NO opposition input? It's their bill to live or die by.

[swampy]

Mac-A-Matic wrote:
Prior to the election and inauguration, many of the liberals and democrats here seemed to be of a position that things were going to change once Obama took over and the democrats ruled Congress. Now that Congress is heavy with Democrats to the point that they don't need republican support to pass legislation, they're back to politics as usual?

What happened to "change"?

Looks to me that it's "the same."

Obama lied.

[$tevie]

You are like little children in the way you view what Change might consist of.

It's not like Changing Your Belt, or Changing Your Living Room rug.

You decided all by yourselves that there was going to be some sort of seismic event, and now that 3 weeks into it there has not been one, you decide it means there was no Change.

Nobody with any brains believed things could happen overnight. Don't put words into our mouths.

You all made up a goal for Obama out of whole cloth and now you bray like asses because he hasn't met your fantasy goal.

Grow up.

[swampy]

A 1 TRILLION dollar debt isn't a seismic event? This didn't happen over night? Okay lets say 23 days (counting weekends)

I don't think I had any fantasies about Obama.

[$tevie]

Um, Bush added $4.97 trillion to the national debt. And we lost jobs in the process, we did not gain them.

Where was your indignation back in November?

[Mac-A-Matic]

$tevie wrote:
You decided all by yourselves that there was going to be some sort of seismic event, and now that 3 weeks into it there has not been one, you decide it means there was no Change.

Actually, no.

I'll tell you, I'm surrounded by liberals and democrats. The people I know on the Hill are mostly democrats. Our customers seem mostly democrat. The amount of support and belief in Obama that I've witnessed over the past year is nothing short of seismic. Grown men and women crying. White men and women crying. Students and young people placing their hopes for the future in the first Black president.

I've been of voting age for twenty years and have voted in every election since. I have never seen this level of enthusiasm and belief in any candidate. Casual observers might have thought it was the Second Coming of Christ. Obama enraptured not just America, but the world.

So, for you to sit there typing away as though Obama's election was not a seismic event is just testimony that you've let your partisan politics cloud any sense of reality over what's going on in our nation and on our planet.