(October 28, 2016 at 12:55 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote:(October 28, 2016 at 10:49 am)Whateverist Wrote: Because that is entirely false equivocation. Government doesn't just exist to serve as a lightening rod for people's anger and elections aren't opportunities for expressing your most ardent desires. Politics should be the art of compromise not blood sport.
It's totally not false equivocation. The Democrats never held the budget hostage, shutting down the government and threatening a crisis just because they didn't like something W did. Nor did they ever state that they would absolutely refuse to hold hearings on a Supreme Court nominee, no matter who it is, just because W appointed them. Republicans are all about obstructionism if someone they don't like is in the White House.
No, no. I was agreeing with Chad32 in what he had written in response to Cato:
Chad32 Wrote: Wrote:(3 hours ago)Cato Wrote: Wrote:The obstructionist charge is bullshit. There is zero compromise and both parties are to blame. Not finding a workable solution to then cry that the other side didn't give you th you wanted is just as bad. They're all a bunch of self serving cunts.
I don't recall any stories about the dems shutting down the government when Bush was in office.
