Regime change

[Ailedhoo]

Oh, come on now. If Obama could deliver an economic recovery, he would have, instead of passing healthcare and keeping his Jobs Council on the afterburner for six months.

This "blaming Bush" tirade isn't going to work anymore. Obama's had his time. It's now going to come down to the voters. We'll see how the initiative goes, especially after the debates, but Romney still has his VP card left to play.

The US ecomony is not without hope... it remaking itself

The problem with the ecomony was the failure of regulating, part greatly to the deregulation from Reagan onwards.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Oh, come on now. If Obama could deliver an economic recovery, he would have, instead of passing healthcare and keeping his Jobs Council on the afterburner for six months.

A big part of his platform and a promise he made to the American public was to get healthcare reform passed.

How does a president deliver an economic recovery without the consent of congress? He did help deliver a massive, 700 billion dollar stimulus. By the time we realized we needed a bigger one, there was no political will to do it and congress was split. Not Obama's fault.

We'll see how the initiative goes, especially after the debates, but Romney still has his VP card left to play

Let it be Palin for the love of all that is holy...

 

[Cutlass]

Oh, come on now. If Obama could deliver an economic recovery, he would have, instead of passing healthcare and keeping his Jobs Council on the afterburner for six months.

This "blaming Bush" tirade isn't going to work anymore. Obama's had his time. It's now going to come down to the voters. We'll see how the initiative goes, especially after the debates, but Romney still has his VP card left to play.

The thing about that is, the people who have been paying attention know that the Republicans have blocked everything Obama tried to do on the economy, and the people who know economics know that the Republican plans are much worse. So Obama is only looking to "lose" on the issue those people who weren't going to vote for him anyways.

 

[Dreadnought]

A big part of his platform and a promise he made to the American public was to get healthcare reform passed.

How does a president deliver an economic recovery without the consent of congress? He did help deliver a massive, 700 billion dollar stimulus. By the time we realized we needed a bigger one, there was no political will to do it and congress was split. Not Obama's fault.

Let it be Palin for the love of all that is holy...

Instead of using his absolute majority to fuel an economic recovery, he passed a controversial healthcare bill. That's the way it went. It's because of this fact that the majority was lost in 2010. What, you think it just evaporated into thin air?

And I don't blame you for hoping it`s Palin.

 

[Ajidica]

Instead of using his absolute majority to fuel an economic recovery, he passed a controversial healthcare bill.

That he had an absolute majority doesn't mean he had absolute support. The Dems are not as good as the GOP at getting their members to vote in lockstep.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Instead of using his absolute majority to fuel an economic recovery, he passed a controversial healthcare bill. That's the way it went. It's because of this fact that the majority was lost in 2010. What, you think it just evaporated into thin air?

He passed a huge stimulus. Then lost the supermajority in the senate before he passed healthcare. That forced the dems to use reconciliation to pass healthcare, but reconciliation can only be used to pass laws that lower the deficit.

Massive government stimulus programs do not lower the deficit. Therefore, Obama and the democracts could do almost nothing to help the economy legislatively as they did not have a supermajority in the senate, cannot use reconciliation and as of 2010 do not control the house.

Not Obama's fault.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

double post. sorry

 

[Cutlass]

Instead of using his absolute majority to fuel an economic recovery, he passed a controversial healthcare bill. That's the way it went. It's because of this fact that the majority was lost in 2010. What, you think it just evaporated into thin air?

And I don't blame you for hoping it`s Palin.

That is an absolute failure to understand the US Congress. In fact, it's far worse than a misunderstanding, it is a deliberate political distortion and strawman.

At no time did Obama "have" an absolute majority. At no time could Obama have said, "we will do this issue because I can get one law through easily and get whatever I want, but only once". It is an utterly and completely ridiculous concept of how politics and Congress work.