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Originally Posted by Minte
As usual you make some good points. What I have seen over this administration is that the divide between red shirts and blue shirts has gotten much deeper and more viscious. There are people that I used to almost call *friends*. Today we have nothing to say. And the root cause is the political climate. In many cases the damage that has been done here in Wisconsin won't be undone.
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We agree.
That trajectory was set in place by career congressmen with no fear of being replaced, but Obama has done a poor job of altering its path. He allows blowhards like Bohener or Cantor far too much leeway as a minority party bent on stirring up conflict and even worse he lets dumbasses in his own party like Pelosi get out in front of issues that he should be the face of from the start.
As one simple failure to communicate his message:
Just imagine if Obama said from the start '
We should continue the tax breaks on the first $250,000 dollars earned by EVERY American each year" (which is 100% true using the graduated tax system we have in place) - instead of saying "We are extending tax breaks for anyone earning less than $250,000" (which is inflammatory and factually less accurate). If you make 20 million you get the identical tax break on the first 249K as someone making 249K gets... you do pay a higher rate on the amount over 250K... but not a higher rate on the first 250K you earn.
Unfortunately Romney is likely to be even worse and until we fix the election campaign system we are unlikely to get any candidates who are significantly better. I am a bigger proponent of real national healthcare than anyone else you are likely to meet. I would gladly trade the Roberts vote on the healthcare act for a flip of his vote in Citizens United. That decision will retard our nation for generations if it is not overturned.