Quote Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter View Post
Dave S.: not trying to provoke anger here, but thought I'd bring this one over from the other thread. Since you and I both decry voter apathy from time to time, though with somewhat differing perspective, I'd like you take on this (and anyone else for that matter). It relates to a theme that will beaten to death from now to election day.....the idea that the President could have "saved the country" if only..................






Not sure if it was your intention or not, but the way that you've worded that the definition of compromise is doing what the President wants, right or wrong. I realize that's the way a majority of the media frames it, but is that what citizens want/believe? Are we to ignore that a President elected in 2008 with a super majority in the Senate, and an immense majority in the house, who got everything his own party would approve through in his first two years, and who was then repudiated by the voters in 2010 who took away that huge house majority, and almost took away his Senate majority? If that's what you meant I'd love to hear why the Pres deserves to be given a pile of blank checks.
You know I'm not that great putting thoughts into words.... I don't think Obama can take all the blame or all the credit for anything that's happened since he was elected! The 2010 vote was both good and bad, brought in a lot of the tea party candidates with some good ideas, but also some way out in left field radical ideas that will never make it into law.---Though many of their issues did make good campaign trail fodder and sound bites.

I don't see anybody in government right now I trust with a check book, certainly not the President or the Congress!!!! Don't really see where I implied that compromise meant doing everything Obama's way, certainly not the way I see compromise, anyway. The President has some good ideas, the Congress has some good ideas, and all of them have some really lame ideas for straightening things out. The art of compromise would be to take the good points from both sides, iron out some of the differences and get some legislation working that is good for all of the country, not just this segment or that. But, I'm enough of a realist to know that seeing as how this is an election year, neither side will give an inch on their position... I guess if you don't pass any laws you can't be accused of passing bad laws!!!!!

It's up to the voters this year, time to make a big statement to Congress about what is expected of them and that ineptness will no longer be tolerated! I just hope that the campaigns aren't just all about super rich "giving" their money to the super poor. I think that whole argument is nothing more then a smoke screen to hide behind so that no politicians aren't subject to accountability for their poor performance! Politicians are shrewd in their rhetoric, they know full well if they can get the populous ranting, raving, and pointing fingers about the emotional issues that everything else will be forgotten! People have got to make the candidates stick to the real issues and present their plans for a real solution. If they can't do that, they don't deserve your vote!!!! Seems the people in Congress now can really talk the talk--we need to send them home and get some new blood in their that can walk the walk!!!!!