"HeyBub" wrote in message
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Obama doesn't make the law, Congress does. And in case it's escaped
your eagle eye, in Congress the Republicans have done about
everything they can to delay, disrupt and simply stop the Dems from
doing almost anything. Lone Republican legislators have used every
trick in the book to hold up federal appointments, but we're supposed
to believe the party as a whole would have cooperated if Obama had
asked them to? What color is the sky on your planet?

I agree Congress makes the laws. For example, they passed new health care
legislation. But this new law is known as "Obamacare," not "Congresscare."
We won't know whether the tax law situation would be different today if
the president had pushed for action. But he should have.

It's called Obamacare by people who think in terms of bumper-stickers,
although The Bush Recession does have a nice ring to it.

It is hilarious to claim that although the Repubs fought everything the Dems
have wanted to do tooth and nail, they would have cooperated on this issue
if only they'd have been asked nicely.

As for Republicans stopping the Dems, that's what they were born to do.
It's what they were trained to do. It's what they need to do. For honor's
sake. For duty's sake. For glory's sake. [to paraphrase a movie
voice-over]

No, just for the sake of lusting after power, of winning the next election
without regard for the harm they cause in the process. And if there never
were any Death Panels, well it sure made a good bumper-sticker.

Regarding the holding up appointments, sigh, if only. Look at Obama's
cabinet: almost all come from government or academia. Very few (like two -
Treasury and AG) have any recent experience in the private sector.

Yeah, that guy who runs the Veteran's Administration, who told Obama that
mutt knew anything about dealing with military people? Although I do seem
to recall he once told Congress that the proposed occupation force for Iraq
was far too small and many tens of thousands more troops would be needed to
secure the country--after which the Bush administration heaped scorn on him
and cut him out of the loop until he retired. Yup, pretty sure it's the
same guy. Imagine, putting a former soldier in charge of the VA, like the
Chief of Staff of the Army has any administrative experience--what a rookie
move.

"The private sector"--LOL, like those geniuses on Wall St. And only in
right-wingnutville would a successful Sec. Def. from a Republican
administration be dismissed as a "holdover". The Bush system--like putting
a former mining industry lobbyist in charge of the National Parks--is of
course preferable to Republicans. No need to have some fuzzy-thinking
scientist or whatever in a job which clearly calls for someone who puts
corporate profits ahead of crap like preservation.

You crack me up, you really do.