Two Words

[DeistPaladin]

I don't know what fantasy world you live in but Obama has demonized the republicans ever since he got in office. Everything that was wrong with the country was always the republicans fault....which just isn't true.

Oh please.

Obama's first act was to let W Bush off the hook for lying us into a war. There would be no prosecution. There would not even be an investigation. For the sake of "healing the nation" we were going to "look forward and not look back".

Obama's second act was to unconditionally forgive Sen Lieberman, again trying to look forward and not back. His seats in the Senate should have been conditional on supporting filibuster reform.

Obama's stimulus package involved the GOP too much. He weighed the package down with useless tax cuts instead of a pure infrastructure project to both rebuild the crumbling nation and put people immediately to work. Despite the concessions, he still had no GOP support to show for it.

Obama's signature piece, "Obamacare" was a GOP plan not long ago. It was based on a plan hatched by the Heritage Foundation, proposed by Newt Gingrich in the 90s, implemented by Mitt Romney and upheld by the Robert's Court. Liberals wanted Medicare-For-All. Liberals would have liked a Public Option. Liberals would have settled for a Medicare-Buy-In. We were thrown under the bus, again for an attempt to buy peace with the GOP which was never going to happen anyway.

The GOP, by contrast, declared on day 1 of his presidency that their #1 goal was to make him a 1 term president. Good think the country wasn't at war or in an economic meltdown, huh?

The GOP has passed a record low number of bills in the House while filibustering a record number of bills in the Senate. They even filibuster bills that the GOP later votes for. They're filibustering for its own sake, to try to gum up the works as much as possible.

Last year, the GOP shut down the government, at a cost of $24 billion to our economy, and threatened to destroy our country and the world economy in an act of political blackmail and treason. If the Teabaggers had their way, we would have defaulted on our debts as a political stunt, our credit rating would be somewhere around Argentina, our economy would have collapsed making 2008 look like a minor correction and the world economy would have also been severely damaged.

Never before has any sitting president had to prove he was an American citizen.

Never before has any sitting American president been heckled by a member of Congress during a State of the Union.

Never before has any sitting American president been faced with a Congress that refuses to do anything.

So I got news for you, Obama has actually been too kind to the GOP with his criticism. The GOP crashed our economy in 2008. They threatened to do it again as a political stunt in 2013. They lied us into a war. They botched the war and the reconstruction. They stupidly fired all the Baathists from the Iraqi military, who then joined Al Qaida and later ISIL. They pulled us out right before Obama came into office in 2009 with the treaty they signed with the Iraqi government. The GOP has fucked up this country and continues to sabotage it at every turn our of spite.

I believe that history will judge Obama as a naive tragic idealist who sacrificed everything for a national healing that was never going to happen.