The Republican can't lose in November

By the way, it was the democrats who have been reconfirming the Bush tax cuts since obama took office. So if there was a gutting of the tax base, I think it was more of a bi-partisan thing than just one sided as you suggest.

Democrats tried to extend it for incomes under 250k. The Republicans in the Senate unanimously pledged to block all legislation unless they got their way. The Democrats then offered to raise it to 1 million. Again, the Republicans pledged to block any and all legislation unless they got their way.

The Republican party is like a bunch of whiny, entitled children who won't settle for anything less than 100% of what they want all the time. And these same people who refuse to even moderately increase revenue spend much of their time standing in front of cameras blathering about the need to balance our budget.

The GOP likes to call Obama an extreme leftist who refuses to compromise, when the reality is that, over and over and over again, on nearly every single piece of significant legislation, Obama and the Democrats try to reach a deal, while the Republicans stand in lockstep opposition, demanding that they get their way or they'll screw over the middle class, or let the government shut down, or whatever. It's disgusting, and the GOP should be ashamed of themselves.

[Libsk]

Originally Posted by JasonF

Democrats tried to extend it for incomes under 250k. The Republicans in the Senate unanimously pledged to block all legislation unless they got their way. The Democrats then offered to raise it to 1 million. Again, the Republicans pledged to block any and all legislation unless they got their way.

The Republican party is like a bunch of whiny, entitled children who won't settle for anything less than 100% of what they want all the time. And these same people who refuse to even moderately increase revenue spend much of their time standing in front of cameras blathering about the need to balance our budget.

The GOP likes to call Obama an extreme leftist who refuses to compromise, when the reality is that, over and over and over again, on nearly every single piece of significant legislation, Obama and the Democrats try to reach a deal, while the Republicans stand in lockstep opposition, demanding that they get their way or they'll screw over the middle class, or let the government shut down, or whatever. It's disgusting, and the GOP should be ashamed of themselves.

That is completely false! The Republicans are a MINORITY in the Senate.

[Bruin Rick]

Originally Posted by Hammer-head

personally, I think the democrats are going to lose the wh in november, and will likely hold on to the senate by a slim margin. America has had enough.

As Lincoln said, You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. I think obama and the democrats will learn that lesson come november.

President Lincoln obviously did not watch Fox News. You can FOOL all the people all of the time!

[Kramer68]

Originally Posted by noexcuseforignorance

Possibly. There are plenty of idiots who will blame the sitting President for the mess he inherited. Few of them want to own up that it was conservatives who created this mess through de-regulation of the financial industry and gutting the tax base.

It's not really fair to only blame the Republicans for the collapse of the financial industry. It was during Clinton's second term that a bill was passed prohibiting any regulation of derivatives and Larry Sommers played a key role in getting the bill passed.

[SeekerSA]

Do you GOPhers really think Romney is going to put on his magic underwear and pray away the FUBAR economy.

Just a heads up, the world economy sucks everywhere and there is no quick fix.

Let me prophesy here that if the GOP wins, in two years there will be a repeat of 2010 and a swing back to the DP again.

There is a saying of being had by the short and curlies and it haz you all in its grip.

It is gonna take years to recover properly and with your pithy 10% unemployment; boo frigging hoo, try 60% unemployment then you can complain.

You are all just victims of see-saw politics thinking that your vote actually matters. It doesn't really.

What is that saying of divide and conquer?

Perhaps you lot need another war to fix the economy seeing how well the last two worked so frigging well huh?

[Loveshiscountry]

Originally Posted by marcopolo

Do you realize how many bills the House has passed and sent to the Senate, where obstructionist-in-chief Harry Reid stonewalls them, ignores them, and uses parliamentary tricks to avoid debating them? Including budgets, a statutory obligation that the Senate Dems have flouted for three years running?

I didn't think so.

The Republicans "win" by avoiding further damage to the country at the hands of the Pelosi/Reid/Obama fringe of the Democratic party, and helping the Dems realize that they better find some adults to replace them.

Given the choice between Congress doing more and doing less. Doing less is better.

Originally Posted by Libsk

That is completely false! The Republicans are a MINORITY in the Senate.

Feel free to get a clue before posting.

The Republican minority is large enough that, under the bizarro-land rules of the senate where a majority isn't enough to pass a bill, they can block anything they want.

They used this to get their way on tax cuts for the very wealthy, by threatening to raise taxes on the middle class and halt all legislation if they didn't get exactly what they wanted.