| LadyJasmine said: Imo the US System does not work well at all. Didnt it take like 2 years to pass obamacare on its own with democratic majorities? |
It took a long time, which is funny because every single republican will constantly cry out in public that democrats rushed it through like no other piece of legislation ever. I don't see how they get away with this outright lie, but then again republican voters don't care one bit about truth and lies. It was debated endlessly and amended a lot before they finally passed it.
But yeah obama wanted to actually include republicans in the discussion instead of doing exactly what republicans claim he did, and compromise with the republicans in order to get bipartisan support for it. Unfortunately all the republicans brought to the table were things that weakened the bill and not a single republican voted for it. So they maintained their complete opposition to it while also weakening it because Obama always went out of his way to work with republicans even though they hated him and their one goal was to obstruct him and lie to the american people telling them Obama would never work with republicans and rammed all of his legislation through congress. Though now that republicans are in charge that's exactly what they are actually trying to do, ram everything through, except so far their bills have been so terrible they can't even get enough republicans to vote for them.
