Yeah, but the reps will no longer be able to blame it all on the dems and say that if they had a majority things would get done.
Instead, the GOP will try to blame the upcoming 2 years of Congressional inactivity on the Obama administration, as part of their effort to recapture the Presidency in 2012.
This.
And chances are that they'll succeed as well, considering that many people either only see the short-term results of Obama's efforts (regardless of whether or not he did the right thing) or have been brainwashed by Republican propaganda into hating Obama (if they didn't already do so). It worked for the Congress elections, after all.
i feel you dont gotta be a republican supporter to fucking hate obama. And you have to be at least somewhat blind to ignore the fact that he made very large blunders that have left this country in debt more so then it has ever been. Additionally while dragging us there he didnt accomplish very much "change" and didnt do all that much that will help people just burden everyone in the years to come
This proves that you don't know anything you're talking about.
http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/
Obama may have many desires he wish the country to take, but he's not the one who ultimately decides whether it happens or not, but Congress, and as long as the Republicans keep blocking his stuff, don't expect anything to change between now and 2012 – or anytime where the Republicans have a huge influence on presidential decisions.
And like I said, some things take very long to show effect. The economy has to climb out of a VERY deep pit. It's getting better, but for a lot of people, it's not fast enough and that is the whole problem why the Republicans came back from pretty much being outlawed two years prior.
Jesus do we have to do this politifact website again? It's run by one of the more-liberal newspapers in the country for Christ's sake! Have you read the gaping difference between how many of his "promises kept" are near duplicates and how the "promises broken" are combined together with the vast majority of his stuff "in the works" (which might as well say 'never gonna happen')? God, this must be the 13th time someone has brought up that website as though the Buddha was running it and it was fair and balanced.
Will the bailouts be the reason the economic ship is righted? We may never really know - however we do know that the money splurged to create jobs hasn't done that. Why? Because with every new bailout plan and fed printing operation they run in D.C. the stock market pauses for a moment. People are terrified to invest for the first time in nearly 100 years in America - not hesitant, terrified. Companies like mine are leery to hire anyone because we have
no idea what the taxes are going to be in a year or two. These are simple things that a party with the Presidential seat and both houses of Congress should've had down pat before the reelections even took place. However, the Democrats were so afraid of losing their seats that they held off on tax votes. They were more concerned with their own well being than that of their constituents.
How typical of the modern era of politics in our nation and sad and pathetic it is. Thank God Pelosi is dwindling away - that woman couldn't lead a pack of ravenous dogs to a pile of meat with her skeletor looking plastic surgery. The bottom line is the Democrats has complete control of the Executive and Legislative branches (and depending on how you view the bias of the newer appointed Judges, the Judicial Branch as well) and did nothing except blame Bush for everything wrong in the world and praise Obama as the next coming of Christ. Meanwhile, the economy got worse and worse and they attempted to throw money at the problem and devalue the dollar. Now they're in a pit, a deeper pit than Bush ever got us to, and are finding that they won't maintain their 150k/year jobs when the cold truth hits their constituents, taxes have to be raised or programs have to be cut.
Programs like the healthcare bill that is a shell - a shell - of what it was meant to be. The highly touted game changer that never was. For 2 years the Democrats ran in place when they could have easily run the table if they understood the bare minimum of compromise on anything. Instead, they felt that the literal -D next to their names would mean they could prevent a fillibuster but
failed to recognize the fiscally responsible Democrats in their own Congress that refused to help further the spending spree. Instead of the fantastic bi-partisan reach-across-the-isle Obama we expected, we have the most partisan nation we've seen in 120 years.
A couple years ago someone posted a picture of Abraham Lincoln with the subtitle "Inexperienced Illinois Senator" under it and I laughed. For the second time an inexperienced Illinois Senator has completely divided a nation. Granted, we aren't going to see another civil war out of this one - but the concept is still there. Democrat and Republican are at each other's throats more now than they have been in quite some time right after the screams of bipartisanship assisted in the election of the most polarized government we've seen in decades.
It's amazing how the effects Obama's administration will have on the economy will take a
very long time - I've read anywhere from 10-20 years to see if it helped at all - but the critical Bush errors from his final 5 years or so are so gapingly apparent now. Now the lessening of restrictions on mortgage bankers and builders that occured under Clinton - it's entirely at the feet on Bush and his 2 wars and the deficit he created that was just 1/3 of that this administration posts every year with a loaded deck of cards. Nevermind the fact that in the WORST years of the Bush administration our deficit was never even $500b while fully funding 2 wars. Nevermind the fact that the first bill ever signed by Obama - his first real order of financial business - was a bloated Omnibus bill that was nearly as expensive as any of the Bush deficits. Let's ignore the fact that we jumped - in one year under Obama - from a working deficit of ~$486b to ~$1.4t. Totally on Bush, there. Totally. In 8 years - 8 years - Bush increased the nation debt by ~$4t and Obama has nearly done that in 2.
Let's not let the facts get in the way of your story. Let's keep on with this Democratic Congress that has passed by us being fiscally responsible and single-handedly saving America from itself DESPITE an overbearing GOP that - by the numbers - couldn't even hold a fillibuster without some Democrat support. It's a great story, I'd love to see how it ends.
**EDIT** Fact check'd myself and found an inconsistency. Fix'd.
