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Originally Posted by raymor
The republicans just arrived in the House a few months ago.
What's his excuse for his first two years of utter failure, when the democrats had complete control of the House, the Senate, and presidency?
It's like calling in an exterminator for a rat problem, then when he gets there you blame the exterminator for the problem. The republicans just got there, sent by the voters to clean up the mess!
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He is to blame. The republicans basically promised to filibuster anything and everything he wanted to pass. They took the stance that if he was for it, they were against it no matter what it was. He and the democrats could have forced them to act by forcing them to actually follow through with these filibusters and making themselves look bad, but instead he and the democrats lost their backbone and caved in.
I think he felt like they would sweep in, pass healthcare reform, get the stimulus package done and then they could go to work on whatever else needed to happen, but after the fights that those two things took he started adopting a philosophy of trying to make the republicans happy and that was never going to happen so he did little or nothing and just hoped everything would work out okay.
But I ask, the republicans have now been in control of the house for 1.5 years. Where is their jobs bill? All they really have passed was a deficit reduction plan that they knew had no chance of going anywhere. They don't seem to have any desire to fix the problem either. They seem only interested in getting rid of Obama. Having the economy in the shitter gives them the best chance of doing that so they have no motivation to work with him.