There are a lot of things you can complain about with Obama. It's easy to blame him on the economy, but that wasn't really his fault. The economy had just crashed when he first went into office; remember the 2008 bailouts? The ironic thing is, while the bailouts put Obama in office, they also put the Republicans in congress. The tea party was created out of real anger over the bailouts, but it was taken over by the Koch brothers and turned into a branch of the Republican party (which meant they had to completely ignore how much their man Dubya insisted we needed the bank bailouts). In 2009 and 2010, the Democrats didn't get to accomplish as much as they'd like, mostly because Obama was more concerned with being bipartisan than he was with accomplishing anything. They did get Obamacare passed, though, and it's been quite popular. Still, the GOP was able to use the tea party to reinvigorate themselves into congressional victories and since then, they've admitted it themselves: their goal is to hurt Obama. They don't care about helping the country, they don't care about economic recovery, they don't care about truth or facts, they don't care about national security and they don't even care about terrorists anymore. They'll openly support terrorists if it would hurt Obama.
The only problem is, they haven't really accomplished much with this strategy and they've managed to make themselves look silly on multiple occassions. It's hurt them. It only took 2 years for the tea party to go from being an asset to a liability. Some of them are sticking with their hard-line stance and it's going to hurt them in close elections. Problem is, House seats are so gerrimandered that the only way to lose your seat there is in the primaries where you lose by not being extreme enough (Senate is only slightly better). So we're still going to get a lot of extremist politicians elected to office until someone does something to prevent it. Thing is, the people who have the power to change things got into power with the system the way it is; they don't want to rock the boat.
The only problem is, they haven't really accomplished much with this strategy and they've managed to make themselves look silly on multiple occassions. It's hurt them. It only took 2 years for the tea party to go from being an asset to a liability. Some of them are sticking with their hard-line stance and it's going to hurt them in close elections. Problem is, House seats are so gerrimandered that the only way to lose your seat there is in the primaries where you lose by not being extreme enough (Senate is only slightly better). So we're still going to get a lot of extremist politicians elected to office until someone does something to prevent it. Thing is, the people who have the power to change things got into power with the system the way it is; they don't want to rock the boat.
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"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama
"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama
