Originally posted by sh76"Republicans are too dogmatic and not grounded in realism." I presume you meant reality. In my lifetime, republicans simply haven't lived up to their rhetoric
Republicans are too dogmatic and not grounded in realism.
Democrats are simply incapable of doing anything constructive.
President Obama has spent two years dithering between centrism and trying to be that guy he claimed to be during the campaign and has come down firmly on neither side.
I don't know who to blame more, but this is getting pathetic. 33% ...[text shortened]... d Russia is one comical blunder after another.
Someone talk me off the ledge.
Please.
for the most part. If anything they may have spoke dogmatically, but acted anything but.
"Democrats are simply incapable of doing anything constructive"
It depends on what you are constructing. Since FDR, Democrats have constructed a society of dependents, and a government so large that the founders wouldn't believe this happened.
Obama dithering? Perhaps the extremists of his party, but not to the many centrists who voted for him. How could he have done more? He made the largest move left ever, with the new entitlement of health care. He followed the left's presciptions or prosperity, spend, spend, spend.
The rest of your rant, makes us long for Bill Clinton or George W. Bush, whichever one you like best.
One thing sure stands out for me. After nearly ten years of call George W. Bush's tax cuts, "tax cuts for the rich" Obama recognizes that the tax cuts were for middle and lower income people and views them as necessary to prevent a double dip recession.
Solving our economic woes can't be on the backs of any class of earners. Leave the tax rates alone. Stop the damned spending, including new programs like national health care. Cut every budget item, not just the ones you like the least.
The biggies: Farm subsidies
Defense
Health and Human Services
Homeland Defense
Cutting spending is the only way of eliminating deficits and getting the debt to manageable levels. Raising taxes simply gives Congress and future Presidents incentive to create new programs and create new deficites. Even eliminating the practice of baseline budgeting and it's automatic increases of spending might produce unexpected good results.