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Machiavellian on 20 January 2012
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irstupid said:
spaceguy said:

Considering there is a do nothing congress called republicons. I think we all now who has not done a f'ing thing. Name anything the republicon congress has done. What a joke.

A little civics for you, congress spends the money and has a lot more power to get the ecconomy going rather then the pres. He has put forth the jobs act, which is all good unless your a greedy person that won't pay taxes on there second million. You kidding me.

Somebody doesn't know how the office works.  NOTHING ever gets done when its a split. Things only get done when both president and congress are the same party.  If they aren't, then the other just votes the other way.  THUS nothing gets done.  Blame Obama as much as Republicans. If republicans had a plan Obama would shut it down, if Obama has a plan Republicans shut it down.  thus nothing happens.  BUT the media is insanely left wingers thus all they talk about is how republicans shut down everything and not that the same thing is happening the other way around.  Not to mention Obama only blames people since his election.  You can only blame somebody for so long.  You have been in office for four years, you have full control for 2 of them.  Time to take responsibility.

What good having control of 2 if the third can shut down anything you do.  You are right that when there is a split in power nothing gets done.  Right now the Dems have the Senate and the Rep has the house.  The Rep have been hell bent on getting Obama out of office where they have pretty much gone against anything Obama has signed on for even if they promoted it.  We have seen time and again, where if something Obama signed for will make him look good and it help American and it's people Republicans have signed against it. 

When Obama was actually able to get something through congress  was when he first became president and the Dems had the Senate and most of the house.  Once that changed and the Hose went to the Reps everything stopped because the Reps are so focused on making this a one term for Obama that they pretty much through out any concern for the country. 

If there is going to be a continued split in Congress like it is today, it will matter not who is president, nothing will get done.  If the Dems gain more power than stick with Obama, if the Reps can gain more power than pick the top Rep dog, thats the only way anything will get done.

Last but not least, I believe Obama 2nd term if he sees it will be much easier than the first.  My reason is that the Reps will have nothing to shoot for.  If that happens there will be no reason for Reps to veto things getting done because they want Obama to look bad, instead they actually can go back to trying to help the people instead of worrying about power issues.