I'm sure Obama isnt' a Republican infiltrative but his administration sure seems to think that 'bipartasainship' with republicans means essentially given them everything they want and asking for gruel and a punch to the face for the trouble. Though this seems to be a recent development since the most recent november election.
He did pass healthcare reform, which the republicans and tea party idiots are going to scramble to uselessly attempt to demolish it in the years to come - just as they have with every positive major social reform. I do agree that the reform didn't go far enough (notably the lack of public option) but when the bill is in full swing, it'll still be a huge improvement that can be built upon later.
There are also others worth noting as well, but the point is that he seems very center-left but this recent move is just a very, very, very bad move isofar as this whole tax cut thing is concerned. I would have liked to just see any attempt to pass it get vetoed but it doesn't look like it's going to happen.
He did pass healthcare reform, which the republicans and tea party idiots are going to scramble to uselessly attempt to demolish it in the years to come - just as they have with every positive major social reform. I do agree that the reform didn't go far enough (notably the lack of public option) but when the bill is in full swing, it'll still be a huge improvement that can be built upon later.
There are also others worth noting as well, but the point is that he seems very center-left but this recent move is just a very, very, very bad move isofar as this whole tax cut thing is concerned. I would have liked to just see any attempt to pass it get vetoed but it doesn't look like it's going to happen.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
