The title pretty much sums up the United States Congress. Of course, the beauty of this is that it comes from a Democrat but if a Republican said it it would not make any difference because it is true in any case. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/vi...dont_tie_our_hands_we_will_keep_stealing.html I can't wait to hear the lefties say something like "But it is a BLUE DOG who said it" and not the Obama cult-of-personality part of the Democratic Party that many folks on here support. LMAO You can't make this shit up folks.
The dilema of a 2 party system. REmember what a cluster******** it was when the Reps were in charge? They are the only option to the status quo. Its way too easy for a bi-pole power structure to be corrupt. Too few players to coopt.
Couple of points. A) Thank you for posting something that helps destroy the myth that democrats are for big deficit spending. Many of us are not. Many of us are far more fiscally conservative than republicans who are all hat and no cattle. B) Your characterization of Obama is 100% off the mark. Throughout his career in Illinois to now, he his not a free spender. He is a pragmatic politician and not an ideologue. He wanted the Senate to create a deficit reduction task force that would have had some actual teeth and both republicans and democrats shot that idea down so that we have a toothless task force created by the administration. C) This guy was talking about congress raiding the social security trust. Hmmmmmmm. Let me think. hmmmmmmmmmmm. Who was it that talked about placing our collective social security payments in a "lock box" so that congress couldn't do this. Hmmmmmmmmm. That's right. It was the guy that "conservatives" like to make fun of. . . . . . Al Gore. Too bad that Bush and the republicans didn't latch on to that idea in 2000. D) You are correct that the beauty of this is that it comes from a Democrat. Because the democrats are the only ones who want an honest discussion about debt and unfortunately, there are only a handful of them, so the chance of real progress on the debt is small. I haven't heard a single republican talk about the core issues of our debt problem. They talk about ear marks and the department of education and 3% of the stimulus that they identify as "waste." All of it adds up to dick. I haven't heard a single one talk about real reform of the big three debt drivers in this country. E) I'd like to know why the site you link to cut him off mid-sentence when they got the "phrase that pays" that they were apparently interested in. This guy was actually making some good points and was engaged in a substantive discussion on debt with a tea bag group and yet, when the sound bite comes, they aren't interest in his complete thought?
Whaddayaknow, I have to spread some as well before repping ChrisM again. Apparently he's been making waaaay too much sense lately EDIT: Or I have been too stingy with my reps
Wow. What really surprised me was the trend under Carter. I knew about the one under Clinton, and gave props to both the Republican Congress and Clinton. But Carter had a supposedly liberal Democratic Congress at the time.