Ditto!Sicut demonstravit.
I don't think anyone is surprised that the GOTP has already stated that they're intention is to obstruct the process before they even know who is nominated. Classic ODS.
I guess the consequence of Pres. Obama being elected twice is ODS?Who was it who said "elections have consequences"?
I guess the consequence of Pres. Obama being elected twice is ODS?
I don't think anyone is surprised that the GOTP has already stated that they're intention is to obstruct the process before they even know who is nominated. Classic ODS.
I guess the consequence of Pres. Obama being elected twice is ODS?
This has become the standard GOTP method of governing. Obstruct, delay.Is it your position, the tables in complete reverse, that Harry Reid and your party would do differently? PLEEZZE! Did democrats "fillibuster" Scalia's nomination under Reagan? No.
I have no desire to consider your contentions or position in any way.
Do not forget the consequences of the voters handing the GOP control of both chambers of congress.
What have they accomplished with their control?
What have they accomplished with their control?
Do not forget the consequences of the voters handing the GOP control of both chambers of congress.
less progressive laws will be an accomplishment! Progressivism being the political diarrhea of writing more laws to make things better for all of us. There are always un/intended consequences to our freedom.
What have they accomplished with their control?
So now you want to change the discussion from principles to performance? Not surprising. If I'd made the same series of posts you have, I'd want to move the goal posts as well.
So be it. I'll play along because even here, you will look foolish and quickly withdraw, I suspect.
Everything you would call "obstruction" is exactly what they've accomplished. The entire legislative process in our nation is very deliberately designed to make it difficult to pass laws, and especially difficult to effect major social changes in short time frames. Our constitution is a very conservative document in the true sense of that word that it favors the status quo over any change. When government acts it is exercising power and any exercise of power is a chance to abuse rights. Failure to act, or more accurately put, inability to act until a broad consensus has been reached most often results in no infringement of rights. There are rare exceptions, but exceptions they are.
So, everything you and Obama and the media would consider to be "obstruction" or "failure" to act, is actually Congress doing exactly what the voters wanted it and the federal government to do when they twice elected a liberal Democrat POTUS, but turned over both houses of congress to the GOP.
To act, to "accomplish" something would require that both houses of congress and the POTUS come to some level of agreement, or that the level of consensus in the congress be high enough to sustain a veto override.
Put into other terms, what is more reasonable, to expect a single man--the POTUS--last elected 4 years ago to bend his will to that of the most recently expressed public sentiment as expressed in the Congressional elections just over 1 year ago; OR to expect some 30 Senators elected a year ago to ignore their campaign pledges to go along with the desires of the one guy elected 4 years ago?
If the GOP Senate were to accomplish nothing in its two year term from 2015-2017 except to prevent a massive leftward shift in the ideology of the SCOTUS, I'd consider that they had done their job well.
Charles
But tapping Lynch to fill the seat of Scalia, who died suddenly Saturday, poses a perception problem for Republicans because her "history as a career prosecutor makes it very difficult to paint her as excessively liberal," Goldstein wrote.
Lynch would be the first black woman ever nominated to the nation's highest court — and the GOP would have a political problem during an election year if the Republicans refused to even consider her nomination, Goldstein wrote.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...a-lynch-most-likely-candidate-replace-n518916
So, how would we build the pyramids today? What about the stone bodies on Easter island? And as a student of the (Christian) bible, how can you claim we have made good advances? The bible promotes racism, says nothing prohibiting slavery, prohibits paying interest on loans, and absolves debts after 7 years.
Today, we could not build buildings like the pyramids. Today, we are owned by the bankers. Etc.
The only thing that has changed is speed of travel of basic goods and communication.
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When the ---- obstructs legislation that they supported before Pres. ----- was elected, it doesn't appear that their obstruction has any rhyme or reason. They obstruct only to hinder Pres. -----, even if it hurts America.
SNIP And therein lies a huge problem with American politics now. It has been reduced to racial and other demographics.