Do you believe that the House and Senate Rs have deliberately obstructed Ds since Barack Obama was elected? Do you approve?
When Barack Obama was elected president, Republican Senate Majority Leader McConnell announced, “The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.”
Republican then-Speaker of the House John Boehner said, “We’re going to do everything — and I mean everything we can do — to kill it, stop it, slow it down, whatever we can,” speaking of the Obama Administration’s political agenda.
It has been noted that Senator McConnell, still serving as Senate Majority Leader, continues to obstruct the Democrats in the same way.
Do you feel that the Rs in Congress are obstructing, as in, ruling everything out that has a D on it, regardless of the content? Or are they simply doing their duty to America, ruling out D ideas because D ideas are invariably bad for the nation?
You on the right: what is your interpretation of this so-called obstruction? You on the left: if the Ds started doing the same thing, would you be outraged at them stooping low, and demand that they stop, or would you assume that they have no choice because all the GOP ideas are bad?
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Yes. I think the point that’s being missed is that the Democratic leadership is actually fine with not making major changes. Both the Rs and the Ds are taking lots of money from the exact same people to ensure we maintain the status quo. The political bickering we see on the news is mostly for show. As HRC said to the bankers: you’ve got to have a public position and a private position. When it comes to economic policy, we essentially have a 1 party system.
@gorillapaws It’s nice to see an increasing number of people recognizing that this is all really about the rich and the poor, not Rs & Ds. Cheers
That is exactly why Biden was criticized last week for saying the Rs will change once Trump is out of office. The GOP has been obstructionist on Democratic proposals since 1994 and The Contract For America.
I agree that both parties are captives of the ruling elite and their corporations. The Democrats have abandoned what should be their natural constituency on the bread and butter economic issues, yet still tow the line on social matters such as civil rights, gender inclusiveness and the environment. Democratic politicians make the mistake in believing the elimination of a viable leftist movement along with co-option of the labor leadership allows them and that leadership to join their Republican counterparts in the feast at the corporate trough. The Republican party, notorious for barely bothering to disguise its function as corporate toady, has been joined by its supposed opposition the Democrats, now corporate shills labeled as “the left” simply because they are somewhere left of General Electric with a virtual vacuum where the liquidated (thus missing) leftist and labor movements belong. Thus, the arrival of Trump and Sanders. The Democrats, not as far removed from memories of the days before wallowing in the slop of corporate largesse, lifted their snouts from the trough when recognizing the threat for what it was, and threw a log in the spokes of Bernie’s ambition, fixed the deck and smothered his ambitions. The Republicans, on the other hand, missed the signals, even with the teaparty decade as precursive warning. Hillbilly populism swept the day as some 30 years of party cultivated ignorance and stupidity swamped the designs of its former enthusiasts.
Agree with @zenvelo, its been happening for awhile longer.
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