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With all the pollsters and key metrics pointing in Clinton's direction, the outcome for the election is looking clearer now (I fucking hope), but there's so much flotsam and debris that needs to be cleared out of Congress to make any significant impact on key issues that lay ahead for the US and the rest of the world.
The half-human, half snapping turtle hybrid creature Mitch McConnell was one of a group of GOP leaders, along with Boehner, Ryan, Cantor etc, that indicated that they would obstruct all of Obama's efforts as president, and have done so over the past 8 years in the face of precedent, overwhelming logic, public opposition, the interests of a properly functioning government, and general human decency.
See the Time article "The Party of No" by Michael Grunwald:
" The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era... ...reveals some of my reporting on the Republican plot to obstruct President Obama before he even took office, including secret meetings led by House GOP whip Eric Cantor (in December 2008) and Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (in early January 2009) in which they laid out their daring (though cynical and political) no-honeymoon strategy of all-out resistance to a popular President-elect during an economic emergency. “If he was for it,” former Ohio Senator George Voinovich explained, “we had to be against it.” "
Think about the completely avoidable debt ceiling catastrophe, the more than 50 futile attempts to repeal Obamacare, blocking emergency aid to disaster-struck areas, and most recently the refusal to accept nominations for the vacant seat in the Supreme Court. These actions hampered progress at every step, and they were done intentionally, all the while offering precisely zero serious policy alternatives; particularly in relation to budgets (Paul Ryan, a GOP darling, produced some of the worst budget responses in history). They're so pig-headedly obstinate Obama could nominate a Grand Wizard of the KKK to the Supreme Court and they would still block the nomination. It is disgusting behaviour, and a complete farce to the rest of the political world.
On one side of politics in the US there exists a group of entirely selfish, hateful, divisive, disingenuous, deceitful, corrupt, wilfully ignorant, sexual-violence-condoning, religiously-indoctrinated psychopaths with far too much power in their hands. A significant number of these fucktards in the GOP have to go, particularly in the Senate, if there is to be any hope. Otherwise, you can be sure that they will offer up the same obstructionist tactics to the first female president (a well-known and much-reviled political entity) that they offered up to the first black president (who was a relative unknown before the '08 election). They will blame every bad thing that happens on her, then a significant proportion of the media will not report that the GOP is deceiving the public and failing to do its job, and subsequently millions of mouth-breathing idiots with voter IDs and gun licenses will take it as gospel. Blather, rinse, repeat.
And so it goes...
(But yay for a Democrat taking the White House again, anyway...)
((omg, robotard, etc, please only make a comment on this post if you have a direct and substantive claim against something that I have specifically made mention of in this post, otherwise you're just telling everyone on QBN 'hey, I lack the teeth to chew properly, and the ability to develop a coherent and thought-out response to another user's statement, and instead simply proffer topic-changes, idiotic non-responses and claims, and generally just dribble shit' ))
- yupmonospaced
- nice post.fadein11
- One thing to say Buddhasshat, the only thing a Prez can do w/o Congress is go to war, I'm not interested is Hilary starting a war with Russia. Are you??robotron3k
- Biggest disservice the media has done is not have a daily segment of what's being revealed in the wikileaks.IRNlun6
- President Obama's entire cabinet was selected by Goldman Sachs.IRNlun6
- ^ Gold. Fried gold.face_melter
- Obama is a centrist, always has been. The GOP's demonization of him, and the failure of the press to give up on false equivalency, is the story of hisallthethings
- presidency. If he failed at all, it was in not making them pay.allthethings
- I dont buy the bipartisan story, if you examine you will see that they passed most of the bills that were in the interest of the important people.yurimon
- you are not important accept for the milking of your substance....yurimon
- ok, i responded 14 posts up for you.********
- its funny you think there are parties representatives of such principles. sounds like to me you are calling out all politicians of both parties for said crimes********
- I'd say that's a false equivalence, Republican actions in this regard have been orders of magnitude worseBuddhaHat