On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Scott Stroz <boyz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Don't the Democrats have a majority in the Senate AND the House? If > the Democrats feel their policies are the end all, be all, why not > just ram the policies through?
The way the Senate is set up, you can't really just ram your policies through an opposition that plans on opposing all of them. The House hasn't been as much of a problem. The biggest thing, though, is that Obama is frustratingly following through on his campaign promise to be "bipartisan". He's started negotiations on each of the major bills not from a left position but from a center-right position and then determinedly bargained away pieces of legislation to garner at least 1 or 2 Republican votes. It doesn't seem to matter that the bills have ended up being weak and not accomplished the results they could have because of that conciliatory approach. Personally, I'm more interested in productive policy implementations than I am in bipartisanship. I want job growth, cheaper and adequate health care, regulatory reform that doesn't put the same people right back in power. I'm not so interested in the feelings of Max Baucus or Olympia Snowe or Joe Lieberman. Obama seems to be more interested in bipartisanship than passing strong legislation. As a result, things have gotten passed but they've been muddled at best. > The Democrats have had the majority in Congress for what - almost 4 > years now? And they are still whining that the Republicans are holding > them back? If they don't start growing a set, they will lose the power > they have been given by the people. Its time the Democrats put up or > shut up. Agreed. > This is not a slam against the Democratic policies or platform, more > against the spineless jelly fish that refuse to wield the power they > have been given. If what the Democrats want to do really is the best > thing, then piss off some people now and be able to say 'I told you so > later. During campaign season people seem to want a candidate to pledge to be bipartisan and usher in a new era of politics. Obama seems to have attempted to take that to heart with less than awesome results. As far as I can tell, Obama and Democrats want people to look at the opposition and tell them to shut up and behave like real legislators, not just blind opposition. That doesn't seem to have gotten anyone anywhere. Republicans rolled the dice and decided on a tactic to oppose everything, grind everything to a halt the best they can, dilute every bit of legislation and hope that people get pissed off enough at the results to vote for them over the Democrats because the Democrats didn't get things done. Thus far that strategy seems to be working. And yes, I blame the Democrats for letting that strategy work. Judah ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:324815 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
