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hkellickSo, by now you've no doubt heard that Brown has won the special election in MA. He's already vowed to vote against Obamacare and Cap and Trade.
I blame the DNC for consistently putting up lackluster candidates that voters can't get excited to vote for. Obama WON because he energized people. How could you not have been paying attention and then make the mistake of putting up these pinheads who get elected and then do nothing notable, nothing to be excited about. Were you not paying attention when Deeds got thrashed in VA for the same issues?
I also blame the travesty that is the Senate Health Bill. It's unpopular and the more people really see about it (we're not talking "Death Panels" here, but the actual issues with the bill such as handouts to special interest, pork-a-plenty, etc.), the more unpopular it is.
Now Obamacare is dead (unless the unlikely happens and Congress votes for the Senate bill, which looks doubtful right now.) and most of Obama's agenda won't be pushed through either.
There's something wrong with the system when it takes a supermajority to push through change. You can't run a democracy on a supermajority and it's highly unlikely a one-party bill will ever make most Americans happy. The useful point of having a bipartisan bill is that it's more likely to appease everyone.
But of course the assumption here is that we're all trying to work together to make the country a better place and that's just not the reality here. Instead, it's politics as usual in Congress. Stick together with your party and try to outmaneuver and screw the other party so that they'll lose the next election.
This is the reality of congress. Congress isn't there to make the nation a better place. They're there to have power, to flaunt it and abuse it.
Our government should be a discussion, where people of different background and beliefs will sit down together and decide how to make the country better, but it isn't a discussion. It's a flamewar.
And this is why America is not the greatest of nations.
I blame the DNC for consistently putting up lackluster candidates that voters can't get excited to vote for. Obama WON because he energized people. How could you not have been paying attention and then make the mistake of putting up these pinheads who get elected and then do nothing notable, nothing to be excited about. Were you not paying attention when Deeds got thrashed in VA for the same issues?
I also blame the travesty that is the Senate Health Bill. It's unpopular and the more people really see about it (we're not talking "Death Panels" here, but the actual issues with the bill such as handouts to special interest, pork-a-plenty, etc.), the more unpopular it is.
Now Obamacare is dead (unless the unlikely happens and Congress votes for the Senate bill, which looks doubtful right now.) and most of Obama's agenda won't be pushed through either.
There's something wrong with the system when it takes a supermajority to push through change. You can't run a democracy on a supermajority and it's highly unlikely a one-party bill will ever make most Americans happy. The useful point of having a bipartisan bill is that it's more likely to appease everyone.
But of course the assumption here is that we're all trying to work together to make the country a better place and that's just not the reality here. Instead, it's politics as usual in Congress. Stick together with your party and try to outmaneuver and screw the other party so that they'll lose the next election.
This is the reality of congress. Congress isn't there to make the nation a better place. They're there to have power, to flaunt it and abuse it.
Our government should be a discussion, where people of different background and beliefs will sit down together and decide how to make the country better, but it isn't a discussion. It's a flamewar.
And this is why America is not the greatest of nations.
