Go, Economy!

[Drewbacca]

My mistake, 3 years.

They should have done a hell of a lot more, that's for sure. The same thing happened back in '93.

I'm just saying the "WOE IS ME" bullshit Democrats are pulling right now is selective. All of this tit for tat stuff going on is pointless when everything is tied up by backdoor corporate money. I'm not even suggesting corporate money be taken off the table - I'd just make it transparent so people could object fairly and lobby with their own cash, in kind.

Would it be fair to say that the republicans are the biggest assholes and end up just making shit worse with their give no fuck attitude?

Or do you look up to them for it, and think they're just being confident?

No, because not everything Republicans think and do is bad. Historically they were a party that stood up for individual liberties and Dems stood up for group rights so it was a good dynamic. These days, since 9/11 really, it's been security over liberty.

[Yoshi]

I just wanted to point out that this article which so artfully states "Allow me to be the first one not to congratulate you. Through exertions that—let's be honest—were probably less than heroic, most of you have spent the last few years getting inflated grades in useless subjects in order to obtain a debased degree" was written by a guy who majored in East Asian History and had a CEO for a father who paid for him to go to school until he was 28 where he promptly got him a job as editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem Post with no experience whatsoever.

If you looked it up, and that's true, then he's a huge hypocrite without question. His points are not wrong, but he has no business making them.

[Bojack]

It's quite true.

No it's not. It's only true if you discount the things that were done.

[Razor Ramon]

Obama didn't get his health care plan through. He got a bastardized version through. Let's be honest here. He couldn't even get his own party to agree to his package.

[Diff-chan]

Have you ever heard the phrase, "politics is the art of the possible"?

I wish Obama would've pushed more for singlepayer, but a lot of Democrats in the Senate would have not agreed. That's all it comes down to. To get a really good health care plan through we would've needed LBJ and he is not LBJ.

[Bojack]

Obama didn't get his health care plan through. He got a bastardized version through. Let's be honest here. He couldn't even get his own party to agree to his package.

Ok, that's still not doing nothing. What kind of things would one have expected them to do to qualify as "doing something"?

[Yoshi]

Something positive?

[dave is ok]

My bank can no longer charge me overdraft without my consent. That's positive. Also, health insurance companies need to spend 70-80 cents of every dollar on actual care and can't deny someone based on a pre-existing condition. That's positive. He repealed the executive order banning Stem Cell research.

[Yoshi]

And how much do the first two cost versus the benefit? The higher risks to the companies get passed straight to the customers who don't need those protections.

[A Robot Bit Me]

I don't buying one or two fewer videogames a year so someone with a pre-existing condition can get treatment because I am not a colossal asshole.